Work Area: Mining & metals

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London-listed mining group Anglo American has withdrawn an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) claim against Colombia over the blocked expansion of a coal mine after selling its stake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

White & Case LLP in Beijing and Hong Kong and Dias Carneiro Advogados in São Paulo have helped Chinese chemicals and mining group CMOC obtain a US$600 million credit line to finance its operations in Brazil.

16 June 2022

Peruvian mining company Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde has enlisted local firm Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados to obtain a syndicated loan of US$350 million.

14 June 2022

A slew of international and Latin American law firms has helped South African miner Gold Fields acquire Canadian counterpart Yamana Gold for US$5.7 billion in a deal that gives it assets across several jurisdictions in the region.

09 June 2022

Toronto-based miner Eloro has enlisted Bolivian firm PPO Abogados to raise 9.7 million Canadian dollars (US$8 million) through a bought deal financing.

07 June 2022

Canada’s Orla Mining has hired Morgan & Morgan in Panama City to obtain a US$150 million refinancing for a gold mine in the Latin American country.

25 May 2022