Work Area: Mining & metals

Canadian mining group Hudbay has hired Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas in Lima to refinance two loans worth US$450 million.

11 November 2021

Brazilian holding company Bradespar has turned to Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados and Pinheiro Neto Advogados to sell 5.26 billion reais (US$959 million) worth of shares in Vale, the world’s largest iron ore producer.

02 November 2021

Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos in Santiago and UK-Australian firm Herbert Smith Freehills have helped Australian miner South32 buy a stake in Chilean copper mine Sierra Gorda from Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo in a deal worth over US$2 billion.

19 October 2021

PPO Abogados has helped Canadian mining company Eloro Resources acquire a majority stake in a tin mining project from Empresa Minera Villegas for US$10 million.

13 October 2021

Chile’s Barros & Errázuriz Abogados has hired a lawyer from Bofill Mir & Alvarez Jana Abogados as partner and to lead its mining practice.

12 October 2021

Canadian mining company Atico has relied on Spingarn & Marks in Quito to acquire the remaining stake it did not already own in Ecuadorean counterpart Compañia Minera La Plata (CMLP) for US$10 million.

30 September 2021

Marval O'Farrell Mairal in Buenos Aires has helped US technology company Lilac Solutions enter into a partnership with Australian miner Lake Resources to develop a lithium brine project in north-western Argentina.

28 September 2021

Winston & Strawn LLP in New York and Chicago and Chilean firm Claro & Cía have helped Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) raise US$700 million in its inaugural green bond offering.

27 September 2021

A divided International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) tribunal has found Colombia liable in a US$700 million claim brought by a Canadian mining company that was deprived of its right to operate within an environmental preservation zone.

17 September 2021

Atlântico, a subsidiary of Brazilian energy company Cosan, has enlisted Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados to acquire local port São Luís for 720 million reais (US$134 million) and enter into a joint venture with mining group Paulo Brito.

10 September 2021