The exceptional support provided by the deminor NXT team throughout the assignment made the collaboration a real success. Their responsiveness, professionalism, and efficiency were always top-notch. In addition to mastering the financial and legal aspects, they consistently demonstrated remarkable psychological insight, a quality that proved invaluable in a context where there were many sticking points.

I also particularly appreciated their ability to provide an expert and objective perspective while remaining deeply human. You were able to lighten even the most complex situations, sometimes with a touch of humor, while offering a clear and precise vision. Your commitment to the company and your desire to see it prosper greatly helped us navigate the difficulties with greater peace of mind.

Finally, what struck me was their approach, which always aims to put service quality and customer respect at the center of everything they do.

Deminor has played an important role in the decisions of the family concerning the changes to the organization chart, the structures and governance of the group, enabling the seventh generation within the family to take the lead in the future strategy of our business.

Shareholder value and the protection of shareholders are at the centre of Retail Estates’ attention. When we call upon deminor, we not only benefit from a very professional advice but we also value deminor as a particularly critical and independent sounding board.

GIMV is a listed investor granting ambitious growth capital to companies located in Belgium and neighbouring countries. We value deminor as an important business partner and stakeholder. When equity needs, management, entrepreneurs, international growth and/or innovation need to be aligned, a better and more professional governance becomes crucial in our path as institutional shareholder. For GIMV, deminor is a respected best practice opinion-leader and can help us as a direct or indirect sounding board.

E-Capital is an active and engaged investor. When we are confronted with governance or shareholders’ position issues in companies wherein we invested, deminor can help us with an independent and critical expert opinion, based on more than 20 years of experience.

As a businessman, I often search assistance from external advisors. I take due care when I select an external advisor, and so I did when I decided to work with deminor regarding my shareholder position. I needed a partner who had not only the required knowledge and experience, but who also had the right attitude and offered a problem solving approach. Deminor was indeed the right partner, it was a constructive and pleasant collaboration.

Machiels Group is a 100% family business with investments in environment, renewable energy and real estate, as well as participation in numerous joint ventures. We experienced deminor’s expertise in defending the interests of minority shareholders. Deminor also provided us professional support in the set up and implementation of Corporate Governance. We have found out that corporate governance and in-depth monitoring of business strategy are part of deminor’s DNA.

At deminor, we have always found a team defending the interests of their clients hard, and negotiating a solution in the interests of the company and all its stakeholders. The agreement we have reached is the most important agreement ever signed between shareholders and a company in Europe.

The Compagnie du Bois Sauvage has mandated deminor to carry out a Board Assessment. Deminor carried out its mission in detail and based on individual interviews, which contributed to a better definition of our objectives and governance.

For a start-up investment project , I asked deminor to help me make an informed decision and help me negotiate the best conditions. Deminor assisted me more specifically on the financial aspects of the planned transaction (financial modelling – risk analysis – valuation of the company). I particularly appreciated the quality of the work done and their reactivity in responding to my requests.

Deminor helped me to negotiate the best possible conditions for leaving the group of which I was the CEO, founder and minority shareholder. I particularly appreciated their expertise in defending minority interests, both legally and financially, and also their availability and responsiveness at all stages of this long process.

We turned to deminor as part of a reflection on our group’s structure and governance. Deminor gave us relevant guidelines, provided the holding companies with a corporate governance charter and carried out its mission with professionalism and commitment.

In recent years, the MAINSYS group has been growing a lot and went through significant changes, which required the governance structure to be updated and entering into partnerships with various players in our sector. Deminor has supported us in these developments and has always been a reliable partner that meets our expectations and whose expertise represents a real added value for the development of our group.

As soon as your company enters a sales process led the majority shareholder, you, as a minority shareholder, have an interest in your own advisor who will relieve you of your potential concerns. Applying external advisors is a sensitive issue, but that sensitivity disappeared as soon as I was able to bring confidence and professionalism with the renowned deminor brand. Their way of working is humane, open-minded, tailor-made, and at the same time, at your request, they guard the process from the sidelines without disrupting the process. The deminor team was able to assess everyone’s interests in order to achieve the best possible result. Top!

Deminor works swift and thorough both in legal and financial matters and helped us to resolve outstanding shareholders issues. The deminor team, as a sounding board, enabled us to make the right decisions within the family group. We can always rely on them to professionally and objectively prepare and attend the family meetings.

Deminor proved to be an important counsellor in realising a partnership with a new investor: assisting in the negotiations, drafting the investment agreements and other legal documents… I appreciated particularly their availability, flexibility and professionalism to complete this new phase of our business in a fast en efficient way.

Deminor assisted the company and the Beherman family in the set-up of a governance structure. The shareholders agreement prepared by deminor is since then in place and improved the way our family business works and avoids the usual problems that might occur when there is a transmission to a new generation.

With the assistance of deminor, we adapted our governance ans structures in line with the increasing size of our business and our ambitions. Deminor’s intervention in this process has reassured the family and helped us to keep the company in family hands.

United Caps asked deminor to carry out an evaluation of its board of directors.
This qualitative work allowed to improve the functioning of the board of directors, but also to raise questions about the management structure and governance of the group in general. It is the board’s intention to repeat this experience regularly in the future to maintain an efficient and motivated management and governance body. Deminor’s approach, based on interviews with the directors, is particularly adapted to the familial and consensual nature of the board and the shareholding of the United Caps group.