Notable Matters
Mergers & Acquisitions
• Rodeo Resources— advising on the sale of rutile mining permits in Cameroon to ERAMET SA
• KEPCO— purchase of a stake in the Imouraren uranium mine in Niger and associated uranium offtake arrangements
• Peak Resources— acquisition of Zari Exploration and subsequent issues relating to the development of the Ngualla Rare Earth Project, including regulatory and licensing issues, commercial agreements and option agreements relating to other licenses in Tanzania
• Petromin PNG Holdings Limited( a Papua New Guinea State-owned entity)— proposed mining joint venture with Harmony Gold Mining
• The State of Papua New Guinea— statutory takeover of an interest in the Ok Tedi mine previously held by PNGSDP, including advising in relation to compliance with local law, international law principles and bilateral investment treaties
• Bidder— acquisition of a 50.1 percent participating interest in the Clermont mining joint venture in Queensland, Australia from Rio Tinto
• Bumi Plc— step-up acquisition of shares in Indonesian thermal coal producer PT Bumi Resources Tbk in exchange for the issue of Bumi Plc shares
• Korea Resources Corporation— investment into the Mkuju South uranium project in Tanzania
• FTS International Inc.— sale of substantially all of the assets of its proppant mining and processing business and related logistics assets to Fairmount Minerals
• Marubeni Corporation— $ 70 million acquisition of an interest in a uranium mine and processing plant in Kazakhstan
• American Electric Power Company— joint acquisition with CLECO of the Red River, Louisiana coal mine assets of North American Coal Corporation
• Major shareholder— Rajawali’ s £ 338 million takeover of Archipelago Resources plc
• Mitsubishi— proposed sale of an interest in a joint venture and related reorganization in Latin America
• Concord Atlantic Limited— acquisition of an interest, and related investment arrangements, with Binding Solutions, a mining technology company
• Ecora Resources— proposed sale of the entire share capital of Trefi Coal Corporation Ltd
• ASCOM Precious Metals Mining— advising on the sale of its interests in the Kurmuk gold mine in Ethiopia to Allied Gold ET 2 Corp, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allied Gold Corporation for a combination of shares, cash and deferred consideration
• Riverstone— the purchase and subsequent sale of its interest in Fitzroy( Australian metallurgical coal)*
• Ecora Resources— copper stream with reference to production at the Mimbula copper mine in Zambia, owned by Moxico Resources plc, for a total cash consideration of $ 50 million
Project Development
• Tanzania’ s National Development Corporation— procurement process and public / private investment with Sichuan Hongda and the joint venture arrangement for the $ 3 billion project to develop the Mchuchuma coal mine power project
• Eldorado Gold Corporation and its subsidiary Hellas Gold— negotiating a host government agreement in respect of the Kassandra gold mines in Greece and advising on a proposed project financing
• The State of Papua New Guinea— re-negotiation of a deep-sea mining joint venture with Nautilus Minerals, including arbitration proceedings and the settlement disputes following the issue of an interim decision
• Independent mining company— mining exploration activities in Congo, Brazzaville
• Denham Capital Management— sponsorship of a management team to conduct gold mining operations in the US and Canada
* work completed prior to joining Bracewell
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