Estera


Estera is a global provider of corporate, trust, fund and accounting services. The company was created following a management buyout of the fiduciary group of Appleby. It rebranded as Estera in April 2016.
Estera employs 550 people and has offices in 11 jurisdictions: Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Jersey, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, United Kingdom.
Gary O'Connor, the managing director of Estera Trust Limited, was shortlisted for the Institute of Directors Young Director of the Year award in September 2017. In July 2019 it was announced that Estera would be merged with Inflexion Private Equity's company Ocorian.

History

In December 2015, "Appleby Fiduciary Business ", a Bermuda registered company and a branch of the law firm Appleby, was separated out legally from Appleby through a management buy out by the private equity firm "Bridgepoint". In April 2016, it changed its name to "Estera", with the Group Chief Executive Officer being Farah Ballands. The company has offices in 11 locations.
The name of the new company was chosen based on inputs from their staff.
Estera was involved in the Paradise Papers leak.

Subsequent Acquisitions

In 2017, Estera acquired Morgan Sharpe, Heritage financial services group and Headstart s.a.r.l.