Services

Corporate Finance

Deminor's corporate finance services focus on non-listed companies and small cap listed companies. Deminor offers a fully comprehensive service, helping its clients to tackle the various complex problems that they may face as minority shareholders. From analysing the client's legal and financial position to negotiating a complex corporate finance transaction, we always use a hands-on and result oriented approach.

 

Deminor offers a one-stop service to minority shareholders of private companies and small cap listed companies.

 

Shareholders of such companies frequently need advice to better understand the company's financial, legal and governance structure, or to improve the return and liquidity of their investment. Problems can occur when succession takes place in a family, when private or professional shareholders wish to exit or when a transaction such as a merger or takeover is proposed by the management. Minority shareholders may also be dissatisfied about their company's governance structure or lack of shareholder value creation.

 

Our approach

In a first stage, we analyse our client's legal and financial position. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the client's position is essential to enabling us to propose a strategy to the client. We carefully listen to the client's concerns and objectives and integrate those in our analysis.

 

We strictly respect the confidentiality of the analysis phase. We recognize that confidenitality is essential to treating a case on behalf of shareholders in a privately held company. This is even more the case when family related issues are intertwined with other business issues.

 

As a second step, we propose a strategy to the client aimed at realizing his objectives. The client's objectives may be very diverse, ranging from the negotiation of a shareholders' agreement, an improvement of the company's governance, an increase of the pay-out, a negotation of a proposed transaction such as a merger or a takeover, a sale of its stake or the acquisition of another shareholder's participation.

 

In most cases, Deminor will then carry out the strategy on behalf of the client. Deminor's approach is based on an open discussion with all parties involved, using the outcome of its own objective analysis as basis for the discussion. Technical valuation issues and legal arguments will be actively used in the discussion with a view to obtaining the sought objectives. Deminor always prefers negotiated agreements, but in some cases more compelling actions are needed.

 

Deminor's actions comprise the following services*:

• Business and shares valuation,
• Legal advice regarding the minority shareholder's situation,
• Negotiation of shareholder agreements,
• Negotiation of a sale/acquisition of shares, or other corporate finance transactions such as mergers, takeovers,restructurings,
• Implement changes in the shareholders' and governance structure,
• Succession planning and other family arrangements,
• Shareholder restructuring,
• Conflict resolution, including negotiating and drafting settlements,
• Non-executive directorships and supervision,
• Post-transaction follow-up.

 

 

*The various services offered by Deminor are performed in accordance with local regulations to which its subsidiaries are subject. Therefore, we kindly invite you to contact the office that may be of assistance to you in order to inquire about the scope and extent of the services that it can offer you.