Depository Interest

We help clients progress in a challenging financial world with confidence, providing the platform to list on global stock exchanges and keep pace with change and investor relations. Our teams support boards at all levels of maturity with ever-changing regulation, governance and shareholder engagement.

We pioneered our Depositary Interests service in 2000 to allow the shares of international issuers to be held and transferred within CREST without the need to incorporate a new holding company in one of the ‘home nations’: The UK, Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man.

Since 2000 we have delivered DI solutions for:

• 30+ countries
• 100 international companies

Why choose DI?

The London capital markets have long been recognised as a listing and trading venue of choice for international companies, hosting all types of international companies from early-stage tech to multi-national industrial.

The advantages that have attracted such a large number of issuers to London include:

• A well-capitalised investor base
• A deep concentration of the best financial practitioners in the world
• A flexible, principles-based regulatory
• and governance regime and
• A trusted legal environment.

Any company admitted to trading in London is legally required to ensure that their shares can be held and settled electronically. UK legislation only permits securities issued by companies domiciled in the UK to be held or transferred within in CREST. For this reason, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man adopted equivalent regulatory structures allowing securities from those jurisdictions to access CREST.

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