Deminor
Tsee Ann Cheong is an experienced legal professional currently serving as the Group General Counsel and Data Protection Officer at Deminor since October 2020, with previous roles including Senior Legal Counsel and part of the investment recovery team. Prior to Deminor, Tsee Ann worked at Monard Law from July 2016 to September 2020 as a Senior Corporate Advisor, managing corporate housekeeping for 60 EMEA and LATAM jurisdictions and handling M&A transactions. Tsee Ann's earlier experience includes a decade at Stibbe focused on corporate legal services, and earlier legal positions involving contract negotiations and corporate secretarial work across various firms. Educational credentials include a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Buckingham and qualifications from the Singapore Academy of Law and Holborn Law Tutors, including being called to the English Bar at Middle Temple.
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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.