SANNE Appoints Three Directors To Corporate, Private Client Businesses

Tom Burroughes

12 May 2017

, which provides fiduciary, outsourced alternative asset and corporate administration and reporting services, has appointed three new directors to its corporate and private client businesses.

Anton Seatter joins as director - corporate and private client, Mark Fleming as director - private client and Daniel Pringle has been promoted to the position of director – private client, at the London-listed firm.
Based in the London office, Seatter will represent all of SANNE’s CPC divisions, namely corporate and institutional, executive incentives and its ultra-high net worth private client business. He has 20 years of industry experience. A chartered secretary, he previously held senior positions in the finance industry, including TMF and Royal Bank of Canada, and has extensive experience with global corporate and institutional clientele, asset managers and UHNW family offices.

The firm also brought in Mark Fleming to its private client division. Fleming is an expert in overseeing complex trusts and other fiduciary structures for global cross-border UHNW families and their family offices, with a particular focus on the UK and Americas. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, an ICSA Associate (ACA) and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He held senior roles in the finance industry, including Crestbridge and the Royal Bank of Canada in Jersey.

Daniel Pringle, having joined SANNE in 2015 from Royal Bank of Canada, has been promoted from within SANNE’s private client business to the status of director. Pringle has over 16 years’ industry experience in managing trust and other fiduciary structure of global UHNW families. He is an ICSA professional.

Pringle and Fleming report to Phil Le Vesconte (head of private client at SANNE).

In a separate announcement yesterday, SANNE appointed Charles Le Cornu as co-head of its private debt and capital markets business division. Le Cornu will work with Conor Blake, fellow co-head of private debt and capital markets, based in the firm’s Dublin office.

Le Cornu previously worked at InterTrust, where he was head of closed-ended funds in the Channel Islands. He has held various board positions for a number of collective investment funds and investment holding structures, specialising in Private Equity, Debt and Real Estate.

Established for over 25 years, SANNE employs more than 1,000 people worldwide and administers structures and funds that have in excess of £160 billion ($206 billion) of assets.

In February, Valérie Mantot, director, SANNE in Asia, and Ching Yng Choi, head of Asia at ALFI, were named as co-chairs of the newly formed Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) Singapore Working Group. Mantot was previously chair of the ALFI Dubai Working Group for more than five years. Choi has been heading the ALFI Asia representative office for the last six years, chairing the ALFI Hong Kong Working Group and co-chairing ALFI TA & Distribution Forum Asia, out of Hong Kong. Late last year, SANNE agreed to acquire the Mauritius-based IFS Group, comprising International Financial Services and IFS Trustees, for $127.3 million.