Mining
Legal counsel in the mining sector requires a deep understanding of the industry’s specificities and the regulations surrounding exploratory and extractive activities, demanding not only high-quality legal advice but a strategic partnership that understands business challenges and offers practical solutions to overcome obstacles and drive growth.
Our team of specialists offers comprehensive and strategic legal solutions, focusing on legal certainty and maximising the value of projects. Our team has vast experience in environmental licensing, regulatory matters, contractual litigation, and negotiating agreements with public and private stakeholders. We act preventively and in an advisory capacity, ensuring compliance with national and international laws and regulations, in addition to providing full counsel on transactions, mergers, and acquisitions within the sector. Our objective is to help transform regulatory and financial challenges into opportunities, creating sustainable and innovative value for your mining projects.
Our core services include:
- Structuring of contracts and commercial agreements: Negotiating and drafting supply agreements, service agreements, and joint ventures.
- Agreements with regulatory authorities: Representation in public hearings and agreements with regulatory agencies and government bodies.
- Competition/Antitrust: Preventive counsel to avoid anti-competitive practices, such as price-fixing agreements or abuses of economic power.
- Dispute management: Representation in litigation related to environmental, land, and contractual issues.
- Due diligence and legal audits: Legal and regulatory analysis of assets and liabilities in the mining sector.
- Consultancy on compliance and corporate governance matters: Implementation of compliance policies and programmes to minimise legal risks.
- Environmental licensing and regulatory counsel: Advising and monitoring the environmental licensing and compliance process.