Work Area: Mining & metals

Canadian mining company Rio2 has hired four offices of DLA Piper LLP and Guerrero Olivos in Santiago to get a US$135 million financing to develop a gold mine in Chile.

02 September 2021

Russian fertilizer producer EuroChem has hired Dentons in Moscow and three offices of Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados to acquire a Brazilian mining project from Norwegian company Yara for US$410 million.

09 August 2021

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados in Lima has helped Peru's Compañía Minera Antamina obtain a US$1 billion loan.

23 July 2021

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría (Peru) has helped local mining company Minera IRL to refinance a US$104 million credit facility.

22 July 2021

Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados in Lima and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York have helped Peruvian mining company Minsur obtain a US$300 million loan.

14 July 2021

US miner Royal Gold has hired Pinheiro Neto Advogados in São Paulo to enter a US$110 million purchase agreement for gold produced at Ero Copper’s mine in Brazil.

13 July 2021

Canadian mining company Silver Mountain Resources has hired Dentons in Toronto and Miranda & Amado Abogados in Lima to acquire a controlling stake in Peruvian counterpart Sociedad Minera Reliquias in a deal worth some US$23 million.

09 July 2021

Less than a month after launching its fourth Ecuadorian office, Robalino Law has boosted its disputes, labour, IP and natural resources departments by promoting three lawyers to partner.

16 June 2021

Multinational mining company Anglo American has filed an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) claim against Colombia following a local court order blocking expansion plans at a coal mine over environmental concerns – after its partner in the project Glencore which has also lodged a claim against the state.

10 June 2021

A divided International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) tribunal has held Costa Rica liable in a third-party funded claim worth almost US$400 million brought by a Canadian gold mining company, while declining to award any damages.

08 June 2021