Practice Areas & Industries: Lawson Lundell LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The mining industry today faces unprecedented challenges and opportunities as the factors influencing its health change: the strength of the economies in China and India and other developing countries, commodity prices, interest rates, the availability of credit, currency exchange rates, the cost of fuel and other consumables, the availability of labour, the legal certainty of mining tenements in third world countries and so on. Canadian companies and Canadian professional advisors are particularly well known for their ability and experience in seeing the opportunities and overcoming the challenges.

Lawson Lundell’s Mining Group is recognized around the world as a leader in mining and natural resources law. Chambers & Partners Global recognizes Lawson Lundell as a world leader in the field of Energy: Mining. Supported by the firm’s strength in the corporate finance, environmental & regulatory, aboriginal, industrial relations, OHS, tax and (where necessary) litigation practice groups, the Mining Group meets the needs of Canadian, American, British, Australian and other international mining clients in all parts of the world.

Our lawyers have first-language skills in Spanish and Korean, which assists with transactions in Spanish-speaking countries and representation of Korean clients.

Services Available

Specifically, we offer advice on:

• acquisitions and dispositions of mines and mining companies
• project development and construction and mine operations throughout Canada and the world
• strategic investments and partnerships including off-take agreements
• exploration agreements including farm-ins and joint ventures
• mergers and acquisitions, both public and private, hostile and friendly
• mineral royalties
• marketing contracts, ore sales contracts, smelting contracts, transportation contracts
• impact benefit agreements with Aboriginals
• environmental and regulatory matters

For more information, please contact:

Chris Baldwin at cbaldwin@lawsonlundell.com or (604) 631.9151

Gordon Chambers at grchambers@lawsonlundell.com or (604) 631.9191