Allende & Brea‘s multidisciplinary team has extensive mining industry expertise and provides local and international mining companies with comprehensive regulatory, environmental, tax, financial and contractual support. Complex cross-border mining M&A, joint ventures and financings are particular areas of strength for a firm that as been at the forefront of the Argentina’s boom in metalliferous projects, with lithium and copper especially busy areas. The practice is led by the formidable Florencia Heredia (’an incredible attorney and contributor to the global legal community‘), a true mining specialist with more than three decades’ industry experience and an impressive international mining company contact book. She is ably assisted by a team of accomplished associates, including mining and foreign investment senior Agostina Martinez; ESG and administrative law-focused Martín Prieto; and Maria Milagros Pieroni, a young lawyer who has in-house experience in the lithium industry and a solid grounding in environmental law.
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‘Very professional and knowledgable. A team with deep mining sector expertise.'
‘Florencia Heredia is at top of her game and an incredible attorney and contributor to the global legal community. She is knowledgeable in her practice area, personable, and delivers top end results for her clients.'
Key clients
- BHP
- South 32
- Kaizen Discovery
- Nuton
- Arcadium Lithium
- Rio Tinto
- Pluspetrol
- Tecpetrol
- Volcan Compañía Minera
- Royal Capital Management
- Resource Capital Funds
- Newmont Corporation
- Macquarie Capital
- First Quantum Minerals
- Nomad Royalty Company
- Sibanye Stillwater Ltd.
- Sprott Capital Partners
- Scotiabank
- Orosur Mining Inc.
- Compañía Minera del Pacífico
- Gold Fields
- Critical Resource
- Tectoniq
Work highlights
- Advised Allkem on an all-stock merger of with Livent that values the combined company at $10.6bn.
- Advised Arcadium Lithium on a $180m limited recourse project financing provided by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and IDB Invest to support the development and construction of the first stage of Arcadium’s Sal de Vida lithium project in the province of Catamarca.
- Assisted Nuton on a $10m investment to acquire the shares of McEwen Copper as an existing shareholder.
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Florencia Heredia