Computershare Canada Completes Acquisition of Valiant Trust Company Assets

TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - May 01, 2015) - Computershare Limited (CPU.AX) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the Valiant Trust Company ("Valiant") assets from Canadian Western Bank (CWB.TO). The purchase includes the stock transfer, employee plans services and corporate trust businesses of Valiant across Canada.

Based in Calgary, Valiant was founded in 1993. It provides services to approximately 450 issuer clients across Canada, including a large number of private issuers.

"The acquisition of the Valiant assets represents Computershare's commitment to growing our core businesses across Canada," said Stuart Swartz, President and CEO of Computershare Canada. "Our strengths lie in our technology and in our people, who continuously deliver value to our clients with service excellence that has earned Computershare the reputation of a trusted industry leader."

Computershare has extensive integration experience from acquisitions over the past decade throughout Canada and across the globe, and will apply best practices from both parties to offer clients innovative services and solutions.

About Computershare Limited
Computershare (CPU.AX) is a global market leader in transfer agency and share registration, employee equity plans, proxy solicitation and stakeholder communications. We also specialize in corporate trust, mortgage, bankruptcy, class action and utility administration, and a range of other diversified financial and governance services.

Founded in 1978, Computershare is renowned for its expertise in high integrity data management, high volume transaction processing and reconciliations, payments and stakeholder engagement. Many of the world's leading organizations use us to streamline and maximize the value of relationships with their investors, employees, creditors and customers.

Computershare is represented in all major financial markets and has over 15,000 employees worldwide. For more information, visit www.computershare.com.

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