FIDES Trustees SA: version 2
Saved 2026-09-20 19:23 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the two queue items. The ownership walk now has a step: Fides Holdings SA (Luxembourg, RCS B152423) announced in July 2017 that it had bought Ariannol Trustees (Suisse) SA, and the SHAB entry for the 2019 merger of Ariannol into FIDES Trustees SA records that the whole share capital of both companies was held by the same shareholder, so this page now carries owned_by company/fides-holdings-sa at derived with that basis in the note, and the holding company is created as a stub (summary, its own site and North Data rows, Companies House PSC of Fides Consultants Ltd, registered office). Also created the predecessor stub company/ariannol-trustees-suisse-sa with merged_into this page and owned_by Fides Holdings SA until 4 September 2019. Added founded: 2010 (register publications from the 2010 registration) and rewrote About as a lede plus a sourced history: 2010 registration, the 2017 acquisition, the April 2019 capital increase from CHF 100,000 to CHF 1,000,000, the 4 September 2019 merger, the FINMA licence announced on 18 June 2024 and the 17 October 2024 purpose. Re-checked the queue's Red Bull facts against their sources: evi.gv.at still shows FIDES Trustees SA entered as a shareholder on 31 May 2025 and Fortune/Bloomberg is the source of the 2 % and the USD 1.1 billion, which About now cites for that figure. New References rows: shab-capital, shab-fusion, shab-ariannol, fides-ariannol, finma-pr, ch-psc, northdata; shab, evi-rb, fortune and fides kept. ownership_status was not set: nothing found states that Fides Holdings SA itself has no corporate parent, so the walk stops there and I am filing company/fides-holdings-sa on the cleanup queue; a Luxembourg RCS filing or RBE record would settle its shareholders.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# FIDES Trustees SA <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: FIDES Trustees SA
summary: Geneva trust company of the Luxembourg-based Fides group, FINMA-licensed as a trustee, holding the 2 % of Red Bull GmbH transferred by Chalerm Yoovidhya in May 2025.
legal_name: FIDES Trustees SA
registered_address: Rue de la Croix-d'Or 19, 1204 Genève, Switzerland
country: CH
website: https://www.fidestrustees.com/
register_ids: CH-UID:CHE-115.815.767
founded: 2010
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/fides-holdings-sa | | | | | derived | ^fides-ariannol | Fides Holdings SA bought Ariannol Trustees (Suisse) SA in July 2017; the 2019 merger entry records one shareholder holding the whole share capital of Ariannol and of this company |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ------------------------------------ | ------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------- |
| | office | Rue de la Croix-d'Or 19, 1204 Genève | CH | ^shab | the seat entered in the Swiss commercial register |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| FIDES Trustees SA | legal | fr | | |
| Fides Trustees | search | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| -------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| shab | https://amtsblattportal.ch/api/v1/publications/d5847a46-e96c-43fe-89f6-6035bbf1352a/xml | SHAB HR02-1006176824: Mutation FIDES Trustees SA, Genève, CHE-115.815.767, rue de la Croix-d'Or 19, new purpose, statutes of 17.10.2024 | 2026-09-20 | Eidgenössisches Amt für das Handelsregister | registry | 2024-11-12 | HR02-1006176824 | | | | |
| shab-capital | https://amtsblattportal.ch/api/v1/publications/26496321-601a-4a50-9fcd-765fbb0565d3/xml | SHAB HR02-1004603705: FIDES Trustees SA, ordinary capital increase from CHF 100,000 to CHF 1,000,000, statutes of 28.03.2019 | 2026-09-20 | Eidgenössisches Amt für das Handelsregister | registry | 2019-04-04 | HR02-1004603705 | | | | |
| shab-fusion | https://amtsblattportal.ch/api/v1/publications/b5f68a1a-c1f9-4e08-804d-589ad882c1fb/xml | SHAB HR02-1004712509: FIDES Trustees SA takes over the assets and liabilities of Ariannol Trustees (Suisse) SA, same sole shareholder | 2026-09-20 | Eidgenössisches Amt für das Handelsregister | registry | 2019-09-09 | HR02-1004712509 | | | | |
| shab-ariannol | https://amtsblattportal.ch/api/v1/publications/25cce840-a574-450d-8c92-abbb39cb4c7f/xml | SHAB HR03-1004712560: Ariannol Trustees (Suisse) SA, CHE-317.304.579, struck from the register by merger into FIDES Trustees SA | 2026-09-20 | Eidgenössisches Amt für das Handelsregister | registry | 2019-09-09 | HR03-1004712560 | | | | |
| fides-ariannol | https://fidestrustees.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/10/Press_Release_Fides_Holdings_acquires_Ariannol_Trustees_Suisse_SA_July_2017.pdf | Fides Holdings SA press release: Fides Holdings SA announces the acquisition of Geneva-based Ariannol Trustees (Suisse) SA | 2026-09-20 | Fides Holdings SA | other | 2017-07 | | | | | |
| finma-pr | https://www.fidestrustees.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/07/Publication-announcement-Fides-website.pdf | Fides Trustees SA press release: Fides Trustees SA obtains its license from FINMA, 18 June 2024 | 2026-09-20 | Fides Trustees SA | other | 2024-06-18 | | | | | |
| ch-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07233536/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: FIDES CONSULTANTS LTD (07233536), person with significant control Fides Holdings Sa, Luxembourg, RCS B152423 | 2026-09-20 | Companies House | registry | | 07233536 | | | | |
| northdata | https://www.northdata.com/FIDES%20Trustees%20SA,%20Gen%C3%A8ve/CHE-115.815.767 | North Data: FIDES Trustees SA, Genève, CHE-115.815.767, register publications from the 2010 registration onwards | 2026-09-20 | North Data | other | | | | | | |
| evi-rb | https://www.evi.gv.at/f/56247t | evi.gv.at: Firmenbuch entry Red Bull GmbH FN 56247t, FIDES Trustees SA entered as a shareholder on 31 May 2025 | 2026-09-20 | evi.gv.at | registry | | | | | | |
| fortune | https://fortune.com/2025/06/03/red-bull-heir-billionaire-geneva-trust-firm-tcp/ | Fortune / Bloomberg: Red Bull heir transfers $1.1 billion stake to Geneva trust firm | 2026-09-20 | Fortune | publication | 2025-06-03 | | | | | |
| fides | https://www.fidestrustees.com/ | Fides Trustees SA: FINMA licence as a trustee under FinIA, Geneva office | 2026-09-20 | Fides Trustees SA | other | | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
FIDES Trustees SA is the Geneva trust company of the Fides group, whose Luxembourg holding company, Fides Holdings SA, holds its shares.[^fides-ariannol] Since 31 May 2025 the Austrian Firmenbuch has carried it as a shareholder of Red Bull GmbH.[^evi-rb] The stake is the 2 % that Chalerm Yoovidhya, son of the Red Bull co-founder Chaleo Yoovidhya, had held for some four decades and transferred to the company on 20 May 2025, worth about USD 1.1 billion on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index; a Red Bull spokesperson called such fiduciary solutions common for ensuring long-term continuity in large, successful companies.[^fortune] The company is licensed by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority as a trustee under the Financial Institutions Act and supervised by the Organisme de Surveillance des Instituts Financiers.[^fides]
The company was entered in the Geneva commercial register in 2010, the year the Fides group was founded.[^northdata][^fides-ariannol] In July 2017 Fides Holdings SA announced that it had bought Ariannol Trustees (Suisse) SA, a Geneva trust company founded in 2012 by Martin Bowen, and that it would be integrated into FIDES Trustees SA under its managing director Robert Darlington.[^fides-ariannol] In April 2019 the share capital was raised from CHF 100,000 to CHF 1,000,000 by set-off of claims.[^shab-capital] On 4 September 2019 FIDES Trustees SA took over the assets and liabilities of Ariannol, which was struck from the register by merger; the register records that the whole share capital of the two companies was held by the same shareholder, so the merger brought neither a capital increase nor an allotment of shares, and the 2017 acquisition names that shareholder as Fides Holdings SA.[^shab-fusion][^shab-ariannol][^fides-ariannol] Fides Holdings SA is also the registered person with significant control of the group's London company, Fides Consultants Ltd, with 75 % or more of its shares and votes.[^ch-psc] On 18 June 2024 the company announced that FINMA had granted it its trustee licence.[^finma-pr] Under statutes of 17 October 2024 the Swiss commercial register carries it at rue de la Croix-d'Or 19 in Geneva under UID CHE-115.815.767 with a new purpose: to create and manage companies, trusts and similar legal structures and to act as a trustee within the meaning of article 17(2) of the Financial Institutions Act, holding, managing, acquiring and disposing of assets and securities in its own name or for trust beneficiaries.[^shab]
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