Resources, Energy & Mining

As one of the largest countries in the world with the largest population, Greater China plays a key investment and project development role in the energy, mining, and resources sector within its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Whether you are looking to develop a project or trying to unlock opportunities in Greater China, Africa, or Latin America, our people can support you. We have wide experience in energy, mining, and resource projects. The team provides full-lifecycle services and mobilizes all resources available for clients while remaining nimble enough to adapt to market changes. We help clients address legal issues about energy, mining, and resources, go through approval procedures, and complete project design or financing. We work with financiers, developers, and retailers to get creative including project development, project finance solutions, acquiring and divesting energy assets, and negotiating project agreements in a market where innovation is key, and with success depending on the ability to manage rapidly advancing technologies and increasing regulatory demands. The structures we help design represent not only our professionalism and international vision but also a thorough understanding of the culture and systems of each different jurisdiction in Africa and Latin America. Our clients include mining giants, leading oil and gas companies, power suppliers and renewable energy developers that operate projects in Greater China, Africa and Latin America in clean energy & renewables, energy, mining and resources, infrastructure and new infrastructure, oil and gas, projects, public-private partnership (PPP) projects, transport and infrastructure, agriculture and water ad waste, focusing in Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Mozambique and the Republic of Congo. With our extensive experience in the energy, mining, and resources sector, we serve clients through all stages of the project life cycle, flexibly adapt to market changes, and act as counsel in some of the largest and most complex energy, mining, and resource transactions. We support clients based in Greater China looking to develop projects in Africa and Latin America, and international clients seeking to unlock opportunities in Greater China. We assist clients in obtaining approvals to get a project under development, and with project structuring or financing. Our end-to-end experience means we are equipped to work with regulators, policymakers, and government authorities as well as private companies. Mining giants, oil and gas pioneers, power suppliers, and renewable energy developers rely on the support team to successfully expand into Greater China, Africa, and Latin America, where we help clients navigate the legal uncertainties in the energy and resources sector. We advise on various matters, ranging from innovative joint ventures, and greenfield acquisitions/development, to project operation and expansion (including downstream infrastructure construction of the resources and mining projects) and capital increase, and transactions, complex regulatory issues, and foreign investment. Our services include mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, incorporated and unincorporated joint venture arrangements, project development, and financing, government agreements and negotiations, farm-in/farm-out, unitization arrangements, product sharing contracts and joint operating agreements, commodity sales, off-take arrangements, shipping and letters of credit, competition and infrastructure access, native titles and cultural heritage, project approvals, environment and planning, infrastructure and construction agreements, tax compliance and structuring, dispute resolution including international arbitrations, employment, and labor relations, secondment agreements, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect, health, safety, and environmental incidents and engineering and construction law.