Save time with combined Escrow and Paying Agent Services
Computershare understands the need for an escrow and paying agent that can tailor an agreement to your specifications, ensuring the expedient setup and efficient administration of your escrow account.
Unlike many banks, we can hold and distribute your escrow funds directly in foreign currencies and with support in your local time zone. Through our affiliate global banking partners, we can facilitate foreign currency payments, so that you can set up your escrow with a U.S. partner rather than a separate international division of a regional bank. We make escrows involving cross-border or emerging markets transactions easier.
Escrow services
Computershare’s account teams are experienced in administering escrow agent appointments on many transactions, including:
M&A holdback and indemnity
Working capital
Purchase price adjustment
Earn-out
Performance guarantee
Subscription escrows
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Our clients
We work with clients in a variety of situations, including those involved in:
Mergers and acquisitions
Asset purchases and divestitures
Litigation services
Bankruptcy asset sales
Set-aside accounts required by federal or state regulation
Real estate transactions
Vendor contract disputes
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Our capabilities
Our experienced representatives will work with you to tailor an agreement to your specifications and ensure the expedient setup and superior administration of your escrow account.
Quick account setup
Streamlined Know Your Customer (KYC) process
On-time funds disbursement
Cross-border capabilities
Regulatory compliance for tax, reporting, and KYC
Escrows under U.S. and Canadian law
Distribution of consideration in cash or stock
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The Computershare advantage
Why Computershare?
Computershare Corporate Trust is an industry leader with US$6.6 trillion of debt under administration, US$257.7 billion in assets under administration and cross-border capabilities including US$1.5 trillion in funds movements across 75+ currencies in foreign exchange and distributions.
$6.66.6 tn
of debt under administration
$257.7257.7 bn
in assets under administration
$1.51.5 tn
in funds movements
7575+
currencies in foreign exchange and distributions
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*Data for the 12-months ending June 30, 2025. Debt under administration (DUA) includes all issues within the paying agency system of record. All totals are in US dollars. CA$ to US$ exchange rate 0.73493 on June 30, 2025.
Computershare does not provide legal or tax accounting services for its customers. Customers should always consult their own professional tax and legal advisors in connection with any effort to qualify a particular transaction for favorable treatment under applicable tax laws and regulations.
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