John Binde

Fearnley Securities is a leading independent full-service investment bank with a focus on maritime- and energy-related industries. We serve a prominent and diverse set of clients out from our offices in Oslo, London, Singapore, and New York, which includes leading domestic and multinational corporations operating within our core industries, major institutional investors, family-offices, financial sponsors, and select high net worth individuals. With 150 year of innovation, we constantly strive to anticipate the rapidly changing need of our clients and the market they operate in. We shall be professionally curious and proactively challenge accepted truths for the purpose of finding the better solution for our clients The firm was founded in 1987 on the premise to capitalize on the long ocean and energy traditions, strengths and resources within the global Astrup Fearnley Group. Fearnleys traces back to 1869 when Mr. Thomas Fearnley established a small-scale shipbroking firm in Oslo, Norway. Today, more than 150 years later, the Astrup Fearnley Group is a leading, independent and global provider of brokerage, research, financial and advisory services to investors and companies involved across a wide spectrum of industries. Our core commercial focus, expertise and strengths lie within maritime, ocean and energy related industries such as shipping, offshore and energy, but we are also active in ancillary sectors such as aquaculture and renewables as well as real estate. Astrup Fearnley has also extensive investments in other business clusters such as forestry, art and real estate. The Group has approximately 350 employees worldwide and a strong global presence with operations in Oslo, Stockholm, London, Paris, Genoa, New York, Houston, Santa Barbara, Mumbai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and Singapore..