Mining and minerals

Ian Coles

Ian Coles serves on Mayer Brown's Partnership Board. He concentrates his practice on all aspects of bank and debt finance, ranging from projects and other structured finance to commodities financing and restructuring. He represents banks and other financial institutions, sponsors, and other participants in finance transactions throughout the world. He has particular experience in the mining finance sector. Ian is the head of the firm's finance practice in Europe. Ian is the author of numerous articles in connection with project finance.

Raj Karia

Martin McCann

James Foo

Associate

Daniel Giemajner

Dan Giemajner advises on the cross-border financing of energy, infrastructure and natural resources projects globally, with a particular focus on transactions driven by the energy transition. Dan’s expertise is in multi-sourced debt finance, where he advises across the full credit spectrum, including project finance, leveraged finance, acquisition finance, sustainable finance, pre-export finance, trade finance, receivables finance, royalty finance and streaming. He has worked on core and non-core infrastructure, telecoms, power, renewable energy, biomass, waste, energy from waste, oil and gas and mining transactions with a value of more than $20 billion. He is currently acting on a number of a first-of-a-kind transactions, including advising on projects across the battery value chain, advising on a $4.8 billion green hydrogen project and on a $2 billion sustainable aviation fuel project. Dan also has significant expertise acting on cross-border financings in emerging markets. His clients include banks, funds, development finance institutions, export credit agencies, monolines and other financial institutions (including non-bank alternative capital providers and institutional investors), corporates, traders, governments, developers and private equity sponsors.

Charles Bond

Partner

Jonathan Brooks

Partner

Rebecca Campbell

Partner

Clive Hopewell

Partner, CorporateAs a partner in our International Corporate Group based in London, I head up the International Capital Markets Practice across the firm.I coordinate the capital markets practice worldwide and facilitate teams in the various offices where we have capital markets lawyers, to work closely together, share know how and look out for opportunities for each other and clients.My own securities practice involves acting for institutions and issuers in respect of listings in London and elsewhere. I have extensive experience advising clients in a variety of sectors, with a particular emphasis on energy and utilities and technology and communications.

Ian Hunter

Ian is a partner in the Linklaters corporate department who focuses on public and private M&A, international capital raisings and joint ventures. He advises a number of the firm's major clients in the mining sector worldwide, and also advises professional services firms and networks on structure and governance. Ian is a relationship partner for a number of the firm's key mining clients, including Glencore, KAZ Minerals, and Endeavour Mining.

Rachel Speight

Rachel Speight represents banks and sponsors in international structured and project financings. She particularly focuses on the mining finance sector and has experience in infrastructure finance in areas including the road, rail and healthcare sectors, including work on PPP projects.

Petra Billing

Partner and Europe, Middle East and Africa Lead, Mining Sector

Iain Duncan

Iain is a partner in the firm’s projects group. He has extensive experience of advising on transactions around the world in the mining, natural resources, energy and infrastructure sectors. In these sectors, he has acted upon a wide range of projects, advising on partnering arrangements (including contractual and corporate joint ventures), share acquisitions and equity and debt finance, asset purchase, construction, processing, transportation, offtake and operation and maintenance arrangements, as well as advising upon licensing issues in the natural resources sector and on development/investment agreements with host governments. Iain has also spent six months on secondment at an international energy/natural resources major. He regularly speaks at or chairs national conferences in the natural resources sector and is known by clients as having “a good understanding of projects and attendant risks, and he is good at finding solutions to problems”.. Iain also sits on the Council of MinSouth (the London based society for the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining). Recent work includes advising a Russian-based investment vehicle in relation to a uranium mining joint venture in Mongolia and a major Chinese mining company in relation to a coal mining project in Mongolia; on the partnering and financing arrangements for a copper and gold mining company with assets throughout Sumatra, Indonesia; in relation to the acquisition of a coal mining project in Mozambique; an international power company in relation to its bid for the Kosovo e Re lignite to power project to secure mining rights for about 330 million tons of lignite from the Sibovc South area to supply both units of a 1,238 MW power project; in relation to iron ore projects in Cameroon and the Republic of Congo, including in relation to infrastructure development issues; upon a mining joint venture in Gabon including in relation to port and rail infrastructure; Teesside Gas and Liquids Processing in respect of a project with (among others) RWE in relation to the construction and operation of a new pipeline and related infrastructure to process North Sea gas from the Breagh field and in relation to gas processing, allocation, operation and maintenance and offtake agreements; upon the financing of AES Corporation Kribi power project in Cameroon; and several rail companies (including Network Rail) in relation to various contractual arrangements, including advising NR in connection with the High Speed 1 rail link.