Intertrust Group
Intertrust (incorporated as Intertrust N.V.)[2] is a publicly traded international trust and corporate management company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The company is best known for its fiduciary services, which includes tax, trust, business management and outsourcing processes.[3] It is the largest trust office in the Netherlands.
Public, Naamloze vennootschap (NV) | |
Industry | Professional services |
Founded | 1952 |
Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Number of locations | 41 |
Key people | Stephanie D. Miller (CEO), Rogier van Wijk (CFO), Hélène Vletter-van Dort (Chairperson Supervisory Board)) |
Revenue | €485.2 million[1] (2017) |
€139.5 million[1] | |
Number of employees | 3,500[1] |
Website | intertrustgroup |
Intertrust's origins date back to the incorporation of NV Trust Corporation Pierson, Heldring & Pierson in 1952.[4] Stephanie D. Miller has been the company's chief executive officer since 2018.[5]
Intertrust has locations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East,[6] but most of its revenue stems from a small number of tax havens.[7] The company is listed on Euronext Amsterdam Stock Exchange.[8] Intertrust's clients include 60% of the top 10 of the Fortune Global 500, and thirty out of the world's fifty largest private equity funds. It does not disclose which companies these are.[7]
History
In 1952, NV Trust Corporation Pierson, Heldring & Pierson was incorporated in Curaçao by Pierson, Heldring & Pierson. In 1975, AMRO Bank acquired Pierson, Heldring & Pierson and ABN Bank acquired Mees & Hope Bankers. After the merger of ABN Bank and AMRO bank into ABN AMRO in 1991, Pierson, Heldring & Pierson and Mees & Hope Bank were merged into MeesPierson in 1993. The trust and corporate management services activities were branded as MeesPierson Trust.[4]
In 1997, MeesPierson was acquired by Fortis.[9] In 2002, MeesPierson acquired Holland Intertrust Corporation and rebranded as MeesPierson Intertrust. The company adopted its owner's name in 2006 and rebranded as Fortis Intertrust.[10]
In June 2009, Fortis Intertrust was rebranded as Intertrust. It was sold to Dutch investor, Rob Thielen's, Waterland Private Equity Investments[11] for a reported price of either €210 million[12] or €250 million.[13]
In December 2012, Blackstone Group announced that it would acquire Intertrust from Waterland Private Equity Investments, which was completed in April 2013.[14][15] Reports stated that Blackstone paid €675 million for Intertrust.[12]
Intertrust held its initial public offering in September 2015 in Amsterdam, expecting to raise €475 million.[16] In October 2015, shares of Intertrust N.V. started trading on the Euronext Amsterdam Stock Exchange at an issue price of €15.50 per share. In total, Intertrust's IPO raised about €486 million.[8] The company's profits decreased from €6.3 million in 2014 to €2.6 million in 2015 due to increased competition on the Cayman Islands.[1][17]
Acquisitions
In June 2013, Intertrust announced that it would acquire ATC for $397 million, which was completed in December 2013.[18] In June 2015, Intertrust announced that it would acquire CorpNordic, which was finalised in August 2015.[19] In 2016, the company announced that it would acquire Elian for $625 million in cash, shares and debt.[20]
In June 2019, Intertrust announced the acquisition of technology solutions provider Viteos.[21]
Activities
Intertrust is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The company's operational offices are in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands, Jersey and Guernsey.[15] It has other locations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, totaling 41 offices in 30 countries.[22]
The company manages the administration of some 40,000 "entities",[1] nominally housed at its Dutch offices.[23]
References
- "Intertrust sluit roerig 2017 af met winst- en omzetgroei". Telegraaf (in Dutch).
- "Intertrust begins trading at 15.50 euros". Reuters. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- Worldwide Business Tax Facts 2010/11. CCH Australia Limited. 2010.
- Historisch Archief (PDF). ABN AMRO.
- Bain, David (10 March 2009). "Fortis Intertrust replaces chief executive". Financial News. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- "Intertrust acquires Walkers Management Services". Hedge Week. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- "Waarom het gesloten Intertrust nu de ramen openzet". NRC Handelsblad. 14 October 2015.
- "Euronext Amsterdam welcomes Intertrust | Euronext". www.euronext.com. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- Du Bois, Martin (23 December 1996). "Fortis Acquires MeesPierson For $1.43 Billion from Amro". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- "Meespierson Adopts Fortis Intertrust Name". IOM Today. 22 May 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- "Rob Thielen (Waterland) koopt Fortis Intertrust". Quote. 4 September 2009.
- "Blackstone neemt Intertrust over". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). 8 December 2012.
- Smits, Henk Willem. "'Fortis Intertrust was een koopje voor Waterland'". Quote (in Dutch).
- "Blackstone buys Dutch trust firm Intertrust". Reuters. 5 December 2012.
- Heijden, Teri van der; Tamminga, Menno (14 October 2015). "Gesloten Intertrust moet de ramen nu wel openzetten" [Closed Intertrust must now open its windows]. NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch).
- De Jong, David (21 September 2015). "Blackstone's Intertrust Expects to Raise $537 Million in IPO". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- Reijn, Gerard (10 February 2016). "'Maatregelen tegen belastingontwijking gaan multinationals geld kosten'" ['Anti-tax evasion measures will cost multinationals money']. De Volkskrant (in Dutch).
- "Intertrust Group Holding SA to acquire ATC Group BV". International Law Office. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- "Intertrust completes acquisition of CorpNordic". EU Bankers. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- Sterling, Toby (6 June 2016). "Dutch Trust Operator Intertrust Buys Elian for 435 Million Pounds". Reuters. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- "Intertrust acquires tech solutions provider Viteos for $330 million". The Financial Express. 2019-06-20. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
- "Intertrust announces rebranding Elian". GlobeNewswire. 12 December 2016.
- "Aantal brievenbusbv's in Nederland blijft groeien" [Number of mailbox firms in Netherlands keeps on growing]. De Volkskrant (in Dutch). 13 October 2015.