A complex corporate action over four regions

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John Groneman
Global Head of Investor Relations
Janus Henderson

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A complex merger across multiple jurisdictions

The merger between Henderson Group and Janus Capital is one of the most prominent and complex mergers in recent years.

This highly technical and intricate process required the management of a complex series of corporate actions and creation of specialised registry services across multiple jurisdictions.​                             

Our specialist team created a tailored solution

Our dedicated Global Capital Markets team was selected to support this transaction. The team worked in partnership with Henderson Group,

Janus Capital and their advisory team to provide a tailored and effic​ient share registry solution that:​   

We delivered over 30 services across the world's major financial markets​

Our global footprint and comprehensive range of corporate services meant we were able to allocate dedicated teams to this transaction from across the globe.                             

Under the merger, share consolidation and reorganisation of Janus Henderson's listings, we undertook a wide range of additional services across Jersey, the UK, the US and Australia.                             

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These services included:​                             

• Shareholder voting and meeting services
• Migration of shareholder records
• Consideration calculations
• Distribution of equity and fractional payments
• Provision of new and ongoing share registry services
• Depositary interest and company sponsored nominee services
• Ongoing cross-border repositioning

Our global footprint allowed us to deliver a sophisticated listing structure

Under our management, Janus Henderson's share register is now internationally-structured across four major jurisdictions.                       

The details of the structure and services that we provided in each market are below:                       

​Designing and implementing an efficient multiple jurisdiction share register​

Our insight and experience in complex, high profile and cross-border transactions made sure we quickly identified the service solutions to support Janus Henderson with this unique transaction.

We were able to implement over 30 interconnected services across four regions by working with Janus Henderson, their legal counsel, market advisors and market infrastructure organisations (such as Euroclear, CHESS and DTC).

Marco de Santis​
Head of Cross-Border Solutions
Computershare

​Completing this complex transaction was the key objective of this project, but it was also essential that Janus Henderson and their investors had a seamless and robust register structure after their merger. This allowed investors to hold securities through regional registers or central securities depositories like CREST (in the UK), CHESS (in Australia) and DTC (in the US).

Our team made sure Janus Henderson’s shareholder records were consolidated, restructured, migrated and merged accurately and on-time.

We developed these cross-border solutions for Janus Henderson so their investors can quickly reposition their securities across different markets.

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