Mining & Metals

Our experience in the Mining & Metals sector puts us on top of the field. Relevant matters we have worked on include:

• Advising RWE Power AG on its acquisition of a controlling interest in the largest Bulgarian mining company, on the establishment of a joint venture with Bulgaria’s state‐owned Maritza Iztok Coal Mines for the production of lignite coal, and on another joint venture with the Bulgarian State to construct a thermal power plant.
• Advising BlueCrest Mercantile III B.V. on various corporate, litigation, insolvency, and restructuring issues with regard to a copper-cathode-extraction mine investment.
• Advising Dundee Precious Metals on Bulgarian law and guiding precedent regarding the termination of a purchase order with a Bulgarian contracting party.
• Advising Mediterranean Minerals on a wide range of issues related to the issuance of permits for exploring underground natural resources and assisting it with the preparation of the application materials.
• Advising NM Rothschild & Sons on the securitization of a financing facility for the mining industry with Bulgaria-based collateral.
• Advising Torq Resources Inc. (former Stratton Resources Inc.), a Canadian mineral-exploration company, on its acquisition of a Bulgarian mining company and subsequent exit from the Bulgarian gold-mining market.
• Advising GoldFields Exploration B.V., Ivanhoe Mines, Haniel Bau-Industrie on various matters related to the mining and exploration of natural resources.
• Advising Nitro Nobel AB on an international joint venture project with Assarel Medet EAD involving the production of mining explosives.
• Advising Penta Investments on its acquisition of mines, thermal power plants, and district heating companies, as well as on the redrafting of related concession agreements.
• Representing Aurubis Bulgaria AD in proceedings before the Bulgarian Commission on the Protection of Competition related to its investigation of alleged horizontal price coordination and abuse of dominant position on the sulphuric acid market.