Deminor
Veronique Chatel currently serves as the Global Head of HR at Deminor, appointed in May 2022 to contribute to the company's goal of becoming a leading international litigation funding provider. Prior to this role, Veronique held various HR positions at TotalEnergies from June 2011 to May 2022, including Head of HR Transformation for Trading & Shipping, where key responsibilities involved leading HR transformation initiatives and enhancing employee experiences. Veronique's earlier experience encompasses roles such as HR Recruitment Manager at the Ministry of Justice of the UK and HR Business Partner at Bristol-Myers Squibb, along with recruitment consulting positions. Veronique holds a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management from Université Robert Schuman (Strasbourg III), achieved in 2006.
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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.