• Western Mining Corporation— advising, drafting and negotiating the construction and O & M aspects of the $ 2 billion project for the expansion of the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia for mining of uranium as well as gold, silver and copper
• London Mining PLC— project development of iron ore mines in Sierra Leone and Saudi Arabia
• Sponsors— construction and O & M aspects of various gold mines including the expansion of a potential mine in Burkina Faso
• Consortium— development of an oil shale power plant and captive mine in Jordan
• Magminerals— EPC aspects of the Kouilou Potash Project in the Republic of Congo
• Lenders— FIDIC contracts for works at the Western Bushveld Platinum Mine Project 1 in South Africa
• Sponsors— FIDIC contracts for works at the Liberty Gold Mine in Liberia
• Major European bank— monetization of a long-term uranium purchase and sale agreement between a USbased mining concern and integrated utility
• REICHdrill— US counsel to administrators of Australianbased mining services company in cross- border insolvency proceedings
• Developer— offer and development of an iron ore mine in Sierra Leone
Finance, Hedging and Structured Finance
• Leading global financial institution— structuring, documenting and closing of copper prepay / streaming facility for Canadian producer, with embedded price hedge and sculpted delivery profile.*
• Leading global financial institution— structuring, documenting and closing of PGM prepay facility for major EMEA producer, with embedded price collar and sculpted delivery profile. Implemented build-out of bank’ s UK logistic capabilities, including VAT, transport and vaulting components, to accommodate physical settlement structure *
• Leading global financial institution— structuring, negotiating, documenting, closing and workout of syndicated term hedge facility for major EMEA aluminum producer *
• Euro Sun Mining— $ 200 million staged financing facility for the development and future construction of the Rovina Valley copper and gold mine in Romania
• Eldorado Gold Corporation and its subsidiary Hellas Gold— € 680 million project financing facility for a subsidiary of Eldorado Gold Corporation for the development of the Skouries gold and copper mine in Northern Greece. Winner of( i) Project Financing Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2023 Resourcing Tomorrow Awards and( ii) Europe Mining Deal of the Year at the 2023 Proximo Deal of the Year Awards.
• Lenders— $ 7.2 billion package of funding for the $ 10 billion Roy Hill integrated mine, port and rail project financing in the Pilbara, Australia
• Leading global commodities merchant— advising on multiple mining prepay / streaming facilities in connection with a mine in Canada *
• Leading global commodities investment bank— in connection with a structured participation in a gold stream facility to a Canadian company that owns and operates mines in Canada, Chile, Brazil and Argentina, including all applicable intercreditor arrangements *
• Leading global commodities merchant— in connection with an ongoing prepayment and inventory monetization facility to a steel producer *
• Castlelake Resources— approximately $ 270 million of term loan financing( 1L, 2L and 3L), including DIP financing in connection with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of Murray Metallurgical, and with respect to the exit term financing of the same *
• Sponsor— in connection with an prepayment facility from Javelin Commodities( including intercreditor arrangements)*
• J. Aron & Company— inventory monetization agreement for an international metal refinery. This involved addressing various contractual and legal issues relating to the extension, expanding the financeable categories of inventory and the addition of certain financial covenants *
• Nyrstar( a leading global zinc and lead miner and smelter)— aspects of its 2018-19 restructuring, including negotiating the terms of $ 900 million of trade finance facilities
• Euler Hermes, Finnvera and commercial lenders— $ 2.5 billion project financing of the development of the world’ s largest underdeveloped copper deposits in Panama by sponsors FQM and KPMC
• KfW IPEX-Bank and OeKB— project financing of Almonty Industries Inc’ s Sangdong tungsten mine in Korea
* work completed prior to joining Bracewell bracewell. com