The File
Fraser
Charter, sales, management and crew · Megalou Alexandrou 8, Glyfada — headquartered in Monaco
The largest by transaction volume, in Glyfada since buying an Athens brokerage in 2024, and currently inside a $1.5 billion take-private of its parent that has not closed.
Commercial relationship
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- Athens Riviera office
- Megalou Alexandrou 8, Glyfada 166 74 Trades as Fraser Greece, from the 2024 acquisition of the Athens brokerage Atalanta Golden Yachts. Managing director Vassilis Fotilas.
- Founded
- 1947, Newport Beach, California, by David Fraser
- Headquarters
- 2 Quai Antoine 1er, Monaco
- Offices
- 17, plus 4 Crew Network offices Around 240 specialists.
- Charter fleet size
- Not published This house does not publish a fleet or managed-fleet number. A live listing count is inventory, not a fleet, and is not reproduced here as one.
- Ownership
- MarineMax, Inc. (NYSE: HZO), since July 2019 On 9 August 2026 MarineMax agreed to be acquired by Safe Harbor Marinas, a Blackstone Infrastructure portfolio company, at $53.00 a share and about $1.5bn. Expected to close by the end of 2026 and NOT closed. Describing Fraser as Blackstone-owned today would be wrong.
- Chief executive
- Anders Kurtén, since September 2023 Previously at Baltic Yachts. His predecessor, Raphael Sauleau, is now chief executive of IYC.
- Sister company
- Northrop & Johnson Also MarineMax, inside the same superyacht division formed in June 2024. The two are commonly owned; Fraser and IYC are not, despite the shared chief executive history.
- What they claim
- Fifteen consecutive years as most active brokerage by sales volume Self-reported. Portfolio given on their own site as over $7.4 billion, on a page last modified in December 2024.
- Further reading
- Yacht Charter Compass — yachtchartercompass.com Destination guides, itineraries and weekly rates for the megayacht market. It is published by the same group as LivingTheta, which is why it is labelled here rather than presented as an independent source. The link is in the sources below.
Fraser has been trading since 1947, is headquartered in Monaco, and runs seventeen offices with around 240 specialists across charter, sales, management, new build and crew.
The Greek office
Fraser Greece is on Megalou Alexandrou in Glyfada and came from buying Atalanta Golden Yachts, an established Athens brokerage, in 2024. It is run by Vassilis Fotilas.
Who owns it, precisely
MarineMax, the NYSE-listed group, since July 2019 — and MarineMax itself agreed in August 2026 to be taken private by Safe Harbor Marinas, which Blackstone Infrastructure owns, at about $1.5 billion. That deal has not completed.
It matters here because Northrop & Johnson is in the same group, so a client comparing the two is comparing two arms of one owner. The full ownership map is its own piece.
