Alan Booth
Managing Director
Agency and Trustee Services
London
Agency and Trustee Services
Leading provider of conflict free, flexible, and highly efficient agency and trustee services to the global loan and bond markets.
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Kroll provides highly efficient, solutions-driven agency and trustee services to the global loan and bond markets. As a market-leading independent service provider, we specialize in the administration of private credit, syndicated debt, restructurings and capital market transactions.
Leading Agency and Trustee Services
US $207 billion assets under management (AUM)
850+ live mandates
Serving clients on six continents
Industry-leading team of 130+ assembled since 2017 inception
Our Solutions
Strong expertise in syndicated, bilateral and direct lending transactions in the loan and bond markets.
Facility Agent
We provide exceptional client service and a proactive approach for the success of a loan transaction. We administer debt facilities, manage interest payment dates and cash flows, facilitate amendments and waivers, and distribute borrower information undertakings.
Security Agent Services
We hold security interests on behalf of creditors in a variety of jurisdictions and asset classes.
Bond and Note Trustee
We provide issuers, arrangers, and investors with highly efficient, flexible, and experienced trustee capabilities. We facilitate discussions between the issuer and holders and administer any amendment or consent request.
Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and Registrar
We provide a suite of agency roles on privately placed instruments offering a one-stop-shop. We make payments of interest and principal and maintain an accurate holder register, facilitating any transfers between investors. We also provide these services on cleared bond/note instruments, subject to clearing systems consent through our London team.
Escrow Agent
Supporting M&A or corporate finance activity, we deliver exceptional escrow and paying agent services. Our user-friendly template ensures speed of execution and streamlined costs, tailored to meet demands of unique transactions.
UK Process Agent
Process agency services to support overseas companies entering legal contracts governed by English law who do not have an address in the UK. We take service of documents and notices served for our client regarding legal proceedings and promptly forward to our client.
Loan Closing Services
Leveraging our global team, our loan administration expertise and our advanced processes and technology, we provide industry-leading loan closing services that improve accuracy and efficiency, significantly reducing settlement times.
Market Sectors
Kroll is the trusted provider of agency and trustee services to clients in the following markets:
- Direct Lending Private Credit
- Project and Infrastructure Finance
- Cleared Bonds and Privately Placed Instruments
- M&A and General Corporate Finance
- Bilateral and Syndicated Loans
- Loan and Bond Restructuring
Why Choose Us for Your Agency and Trustee Services Needs
- Unrivaled Experience and Execution
With our agile approach, unrivaled expertise and personal attention to each transaction, we are uniquely positioned to support our clients and their changing demands in the loan and bond markets. We turnaround know your customer (KYC), document review and execution within 24 hours, which is a unique advantage to our competitors. - Market-leading experience of multi-jurisdictional and cross-border debt restructurings
We have extensive experience with complex, multi-jurisdictional debt restructurings across all market sectors and we have been at the forefront of the most complex restructuring transactions in recent financial history. Our team of 80+ works proactively from our global platform with all stakeholders to achieve their restructuring goals and meet all transaction deadlines, however compressed they may be. - Enforcement
As a conflict-free, non-lending service provider with experience enforcing security across a wide range of jurisdictions and under various assets, we proactively assist creditors with enforcement strategies to achieve their goals.
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Quick Decisions and Turnaround Times
Our commercial and nimble approach, coupled with our expertise allows us to make prompt, pragmatic and educated decisions in response to creditor group requests. Since we are not a lender, we are truly independent and do not have to refer decisions to various internal committees, significantly reducing turnaround times to support accelerated timelines. - Unique Collaboration and Tailored Solutions
Our strong relationships built over many years in the industry allow us to collaborate closely with all market participants, resulting in superior deal execution and reduces overall transaction costs. We recognize our client’s and deal demands change and we have the infrastructure, systems, and personnel in place to support any changing requirements to help parties achieve their goals.
Benefits of Working with an Independent Escrow Agent
Benefits of Working with an Independent Escrow Agent
An independent escrow service provider is a neutral third-party agent that handles the receipt, and ultimately the transfer, of funds and property—including finance agreements, bills of sale and other documents—on behalf of a buyer and a seller, or other similar parties, until specific conditions of a transaction have been fulfilled.
Issuer Services
Recognized market leader with unique expertise to deliver global, tech-enabled solutions for liability management transactions, restructurings, and corporate actions of any complexity.
Restructuring Administration
End-to-end restructuring administration services provided by unrivaled experts and technology.
Settlement Administration
Kroll is the leader in complex settlement administration providing end-to-end expertise for class actions, mass torts, and regulatory and government administrations.
Cyber and Data Resilience
Incident response, digital forensics, breach notification, security strategy, managed security services, discovery solutions, security transformation.
Corporate Finance and Restructuring
M&A advisory, restructuring and insolvency, debt advisory, strategic alternatives, transaction diligence and independent financial opinions.
Government Solutions
Industry leader providing U.S. state agencies with data-driven compliance and recovery solutions through proprietary technology.
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