Art Finance & Advisory : Talk by Harco van den Oever

Harco Van Den Oever, Founder and CEO of Overstone Associates

Harco has a 27 year career in fine art and finance. He was, prior to founding Overstone Art Services, from 2001 to 2012, Senior Executive with Christie's International as Continental European head, European Client Development head, Member of the EMEA Executive Management Team and Senior Vice President of the Impressionist and Modern Art department.

Prior to this, Harco began his career in capital markets and leveraged finance where he worked from 1989 to 1999 at Paribas, Bankers Trust, and Credit Suisse First Boston where he was in charge of Emerging Markets Group’s loan syndications and bank coverage for Latin America. He then co-founded UK's first online mortgage brokerage business, Fredfinds.com, which was sold in 2001 to AIM listed Netwindfall Ltd. Harco has an MBA from the University of Hartford and is an INSEAD AMP alumnus where he is also a regular speaker. Harco is a member of Professional Advisors to the International Art Market and an Financial Conduct Authority Approved Person.

Company

Overstone is a specialised independent fine art and luxury asset finance advisory business that enables borrowers to leverage their art and treasure assets in an environment where funding available through banks is getting more difficult to obtain.

We advise principals on raising liquidity exclusively on the back of their treasure assets by advising them on structure, terms and documentation and placing the resulting transaction with our extensive network of bank and non-bank lenders.

Overstone additionally offers lenders access to its robust due diligence and administration process giving them best practice standards when lending against art and other treasure assets.

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