Work Area: Mining & metals

Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown has helped Brazilian miner Mineração Morro do Ipê issue 600 million reais (US$117 million) worth of notes.

13 September 2022

Argentina’s Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani has hired a senior associate from Elite firm Beccar Varela as partner and head of its newly-inaugurated mining practice.

12 September 2022

Highly Recommended firm Holland & Knight (Colombia) has incorporated local mining boutique Estudio Jurídico Montoya y Asociados, appointing its founding partner as of counsel.

12 August 2022

Canada’s G Mining has hired Stikeman Elliott LLP in Toronto and Mattos Filho in Rio de Janeiro to obtain a US$481 million financing package for its gold mine in Brazil.

11 August 2022

Latham & Watkins LLP in Hong Kong and Carey in Santiago have helped Chinese lithium company Tianqi – a shareholder in Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) – raise US$2 billion in an initial public offering, the largest in Hong Kong so far this year.

08 August 2022

The world’s largest steel group ArcelorMittal has hired Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago and Brazilian firms Tauil & Chequer Advogados and Lefosse to buy local counterpart Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecém (CSP) for US$2.2 billion.

02 August 2022

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría (Chile) has helped mining group Minera Salar Blanco divest its stake in a local lithium project to Australia’s Lithium Power International (LPI).

20 July 2022

London-listed mining group Anglo American has withdrawn an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) claim against Colombia over the blocked expansion of a coal mine after selling its stake in the project to Glencore, which is still pursuing its own treaty case.

19 July 2022

Allen & Overy LLP in Washington, DC and Milan and Machado Meyer Advogados in São Paulo have helped a group of banks lend US$375 million to Brazilian iron ore miner CSN Mineração.

24 June 2022

South African miner AngloGold Ashanti has enlisted Marval O'Farrell Mairal to buy stakes in three Argentine gold projects from Canadian counterpart Latin Metals for US$12.5 million.

16 June 2022