Escrow Services
Partnering with businesses to drive economic activity in Africa.
Enhance your cross-border transactions with our escrow services that offer you flexibility and convenience when your business needs it most.
Escrow Services Overview
Deal flow is the life blood of Africa’s rapidly developing economic growth that is being driven by the expansion of businesses across the continent.
With the right structures and channels, your cross-border activity won’t be hampered by red tape or administrative delays.
Trans-continental mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity, in particular, is supported by our ability to set up the most appropriate and efficient corporate structures, including escrow services. Our reach and credibility in international financial systems means you get world-class corporate fiduciary services providing the highest levels of governance and due diligence.
Our cross-border escrow expertise is an essential cog in this system, allowing you to focus on the big picture while we make sure the details are taken care of.
Our Escrow Services Include
Our escrow services include -
- Working alongside clients, advisors and lawyers to finalise the escrow agreement
- Liaising with Standard Bank’s investment team in case escrow funds are required to be invested and managed
- A streamlined due diligence process to provide the services according to strict deadline
- Opening of an escrow account with Standard Bank in major currencies
- Administering of the escrow arrangement including notification, monitoring and release
When to make use of an escrow
When to make use of an escrow
- CROSS BORDER TRANSACTIONS: Where funds need to be kept in escrow to cater for various circumstances including deposits or post-closing obligations
- NEUTRALITY: When parties wish for the escrow agent to be domiciled in a neutral jurisdiction
- FLEXIBILITY: When the transaction is carried out in hard currency which is best handled in a jurisdiction not subject to exchange control or liquidity constraints
- CONVENIENCE: When, as often is the case, the acquiring or disposing entity is domiciled offshore
Through our teams in Mauritius and Jersey, we offer a powerful combination of two leading international financial centres that bring together the best of both jurisdictions. Mauritius offers a local entry point to the African continent and Jersey access to Europe’s financial markets, while both offices provide world-class procedures, systems and technical capabilities. Our highly skilled professionals deliver this expertise through a streamlined and integrated approach. As an integral part of the Standard Bank Group, our international fiduciary services team is called upon by clients to support their cross-border activity. We leverage our offshore presence to facilitate African M&A activity by offering company set-up and escrow services. Working closely with our clients and their advisors, we set up international structures and arrangements to achieve risk mitigation, governance and succession planning.
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Escrow Services Overview
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Our Escrow Services Include
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When to make use of an escrow
Deal flow is the life blood of Africa’s rapidly developing economic growth that is being driven by the expansion of businesses across the continent.
With the right structures and channels, your cross-border activity won’t be hampered by red tape or administrative delays.
Trans-continental mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity, in particular, is supported by our ability to set up the most appropriate and efficient corporate structures, including escrow services. Our reach and credibility in international financial systems means you get world-class corporate fiduciary services providing the highest levels of governance and due diligence.
Our cross-border escrow expertise is an essential cog in this system, allowing you to focus on the big picture while we make sure the details are taken care of.
Our escrow services include -
- Working alongside clients, advisors and lawyers to finalise the escrow agreement
- Liaising with Standard Bank’s investment team in case escrow funds are required to be invested and managed
- A streamlined due diligence process to provide the services according to strict deadline
- Opening of an escrow account with Standard Bank in major currencies
- Administering of the escrow arrangement including notification, monitoring and release
When to make use of an escrow
- CROSS BORDER TRANSACTIONS: Where funds need to be kept in escrow to cater for various circumstances including deposits or post-closing obligations
- NEUTRALITY: When parties wish for the escrow agent to be domiciled in a neutral jurisdiction
- FLEXIBILITY: When the transaction is carried out in hard currency which is best handled in a jurisdiction not subject to exchange control or liquidity constraints
- CONVENIENCE: When, as often is the case, the acquiring or disposing entity is domiciled offshore
Through our teams in Mauritius and Jersey, we offer a powerful combination of two leading international financial centres that bring together the best of both jurisdictions. Mauritius offers a local entry point to the African continent and Jersey access to Europe’s financial markets, while both offices provide world-class procedures, systems and technical capabilities. Our highly skilled professionals deliver this expertise through a streamlined and integrated approach. As an integral part of the Standard Bank Group, our international fiduciary services team is called upon by clients to support their cross-border activity. We leverage our offshore presence to facilitate African M&A activity by offering company set-up and escrow services. Working closely with our clients and their advisors, we set up international structures and arrangements to achieve risk mitigation, governance and succession planning.
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