Client profile

Private Investors in privately held and small cap listed companies

Private investors may be in a minority position due to a family succession or they may have invested their private savings in a start-up company. In many cases, the financial, legal, succession and other aspects are closely intertwined. Deminor has many years of experience in assisting private investors to tackle these problems and to work out creative and practical solutions.

 

Since the problems they face are often a combination of business matters, legal and financial problems, succession and other family related issues, private investors usually prefer a one-stop service that integrates all these elements in the analysis and helps them to find a global solution.

 

In most cases, they also prefer to assign the negotiation and execution work to an objective outside advisor who can separate the business problems from family and other non-business issues.

 

Deminor's service is fully comprehensive : we take the problems out of the client's hands and work out a solution, while always making sure to keep the client informed, to listen to its concerns and to integrate its input.

 

 

Professional private equity investors

Even though institutional and professional investors (holding companies, venture capital and private equity funds, family trusts and offices, ...) are mostly well equipped to analyse the financial and legal aspects of their investment, they may prefer to work with Deminor for various reasons.

Deminor gives professional investors the possibility to outsource the "active ownership" work related to their private equity investments.

 

Actively managing a minority investment is a very time consuming task that requires a focus, perseverance and independent approach that Deminor applies to all its mandates.

 

Deminor has many years of experience in the field of corporate governance, which it integrates in its analysis and solutions. Deminor's involvement helps to formalize discussions and information flows and results in a better governance of the target company. As a result, it may provide a better safeguard against management-shareholder conflicts and help to create long term shareholder value. In this respect, Deminor may take up a mandate as non-executive and independent board member.

Finally, Deminor has many years of experience in conflict resolution. Deminor tries to avoid conflicts by preventively putting in place the proper governance mechanisms. However, when a conflict arises, Deminor is well placed to help its clients to solve the conflict and find a solution, taking into account the interest of the target company.