Our transactional team advises mining and minerals companies, investors, developers, lenders, and financial institutions on the full spectrum of strategic transactions — from acquisitions and divestitures to joint ventures, de-SPAC transactions, project development arrangements, royalty and streaming agreements, commercial contracts, and project financings involving assets in the United States and internationally.
Mining transactions are rarely straightforward. Deal value often turns on a clear understanding of permitting status, construction costs, environmental liabilities — including legacy contamination, Superfund exposure, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) obligations, and reclamation bonding — title and tenure risk, infrastructure constraints, and other long-term development considerations that standard due diligence frameworks can miss. We bring cross-disciplinary experience to every transaction, drawing on our regulatory, environmental, and capital markets and project development capabilities to identify issues early, structure protections effectively, and close deals that reflect the full picture of what’s being acquired.
Our team’s mergers and acquisitions experience includes one of the largest gold M&A transactions in recent years — we advised a TSX-listed gold producer in its all-share acquisition of a gold exploration company valued at CDN$3 billion. We counseled a streaming and royalty company on U.S. securities and corporate law matters in a merger that created a gold-focused, Nasdaq-listed royalty platform with a $1 billion market cap. We also acted as counsel in the merger of two ASX-listed gold producers — a transaction valued at AUD$1.2 billion — and advised the government of Québec in a $310 million equity investment in an integrated graphite mining and processing company developing responsible supply chain operations in North America. On the capital markets side, we have advised issuers across bought deal public offerings, private placements, and credit facilities in the gold, silver, and base metals space. Recent transactions include a $203 million private placement and concurrent $450 million credit facility for a repeat client — a TSX- and NYSE-listed gold development company — and a CDN$144 million bought deal for a TSX-listed gold and silver producer with three major Canadian bank underwriters acting as co-leads.
Our team’s mergers and acquisitions experience includes one of the largest gold M&A transactions in recent years — we advised a TSX-listed gold producer in its all-share acquisition of a gold exploration company valued at CDN$3 billion. We counseled a streaming and royalty company on U.S. securities and corporate law matters in a merger that created a gold-focused, Nasdaq-listed royalty platform with a $1 billion market cap. We also acted as counsel in the merger of two ASX-listed gold producers — a transaction valued at AUD$1.2 billion — and advised the government of Québec in a $310 million equity investment in an integrated graphite mining and processing company developing responsible supply chain operations in North America. On the capital markets side, we have advised issuers across bought deal public offerings, private placements, and credit facilities in the gold, silver, and base metals space. Recent transactions include a $203 million private placement and concurrent $450 million credit facility for a repeat client — a TSX- and NYSE-listed gold development company — and a CDN$144 million bought deal for a TSX-listed gold and silver producer with three major Canadian bank underwriters acting as co-leads.
