Ashurst

Ashurst‘s specialist London-based mining offering is well-known in the marketplace for its ability to advise across the full life-cycle of global mining projects in emerging markets across the globe, particularly Francophone and Anglophone Africa. The team is highly specialised in private M&A, project development and financing in the mining space – with particular emphasis on projects relating to critical minerals and metals – on behalf of major international mining companies. ESG-related issues remains another core pillar of the group’s practice in the space. Dual-qualified English and French lawyer Yann Alix heads up the team, specialising in M&A transactions and project development in the sector. Public company takeovers and mergers specialist Tom Mercer, and African project finance practice leader Matthew Wood, are fellow important points of contact.