Deminor
Kevin Matthews serves as the Global Head of Marketing at Deminor since August 2021, focusing on establishing the company as a leading international litigation funding provider. Prior to this role, Kevin held various senior marketing positions, including Global Marketing Director at Leathwaite, where responsibilities included creating the organization’s first marketing strategy. Kevin also contributed as a Marketing Advisor for The Pay Index and was the Group Head of Marketing at Simon Holdings Plc, establishing the marketing strategy from its inception. Earlier experience includes roles in different companies such as Solutions Four Impact Ltd., Stockley Park, Curzons Group, and Leisure Connection, culminating in a strong foundation of strategic and operational marketing expertise. Kevin holds an M.A. in Strategic Marketing Management from the University of Gloucestershire and a B.A. (hons) in Marketing from Bournemouth University.
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Deminor
Founded in 1990, Deminor is a Band 1 Chambers & Partners international litigation funder with offices in Brussels, London, Hamburg, New York, Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm and Luxembourg. Deminor’s name, derived from the French ‘défense des minoritaires’, reflects its origins in providing services to minority shareholders. Deminor is still very much defined by the pursuit of good causes and its determination to restore justice for clients. Combining skill sets from 19 different nationalities and 22 languages, Deminor has actively supported 79 recovery cases in 23 different jurisdictions, including the Americas, the Middle East and offshore centres such as the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. With specialists in arbitration, enforcement, intellectual property, competition, investments & tax, corporate & post-M&A, In 79.5% of all concluded cases Deminor's clients achieved a positive recovery. The average duration of all concluded cases was 4 years. In addition to funding one-to-one commercial claims, Deminor originates, syndicates and funds group actions. In 2018, Deminor was instrumental in securing the two largest securities settlements in Europe (EUR 1.4 bn in the Steinhoff case and EUR 1.3 bn in Fortis/Ageas). Equally, the company does not shy away from being a first-mover in jurisdictions where funding has not been tested. It was the first funder to support collective actions in Italy and reached a landmark settlement in the Olympus securities action in Japan (2017). Deminor is immensely proud of its diverse client base, which includes some of the world’s most innovative and entrepreneurial companies, in addition to globe’s leading public and private pension funds, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds. Out of the ten biggest investors worldwide, four are recurring clients of Deminor.