Deminor

Deminor is the leading European company assisting investors in listed and non-listed companies.

Deminor is an independent company focusing on services to investors in listed and non-listed companies.

It was founded in 1990 as an independent partnership and was incorporated as a limited liability company under Belgian law. The head office and international holding company is located in Brussels, Belgium.

The Brussels based and listed investment firm Deficom Group (previously Definance) co-founded Deminor in 1990 and acted as a financial investor, lending its support and financial expertise to the Deminor development. In August 2003, Deficom Group sold its 32% stake in Deminor International to the Deminor executive partners.

The "Benelux" (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) was Deminor's initial home market but rapidly activities were expanded to other European countries. Deminor opened an office in Paris (France) in 1993, in Luxembourg in 1998 and in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) in 1999. German team members operate from the Brussels office. Deminor opened an office in Italy in August 2001, now operating from Milan, and in Geneva in 2006.

On 25 May 2005, Deminor announced it had sold its corporate governance unit Deminor Rating to Institutional Shareholder Services, the leading provider of proxy voting services.

Since then Deminor's corporate governance services are focused on engagements for institutional investors. In this respect, Deminor created in 2006 The Corporate Governance Platform, a grouping of major institutional investors which undertakes engagements for its members.

In November, 2006, Deminor promoted and set up the Deminor Active Governance Fund, a Netherlands based semi-open end investment fund. The Fund focuses on value creation through active engagements.

 

In 2007, Deminor started extending its corporate governance & engagement service with E&S (environmental, social) analysis, which allows us now to offer a fully integrated ESG analysis and engagement service to our clients.