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Our Mining Team provides tailored assistance throughout all stages of implementation of mining projects in Africa. It advises mining companies to structure, secure and implement acquisitions and disposals of and subsequently manage mining assets in Africa:
Award of Mining Rights
The Mining Team has significant experience in assisting clients during the various procedures for the award of mining rights, particularly with regard to the negotiation and drafting of mining contracts. We have assisted both governments and private investors for several years, and can assess and manage their constraints as well as fulfill their expectations in the process.
Ancillary Contracts
The Mining Team has developed recognised expertise in negotiating and drafting ancillary contracts required for implementation of mining projects (engineering, procurement and construction contracts (EPC) or offtake contracts).
Legal and Tax Structuring
The Mining Team can develop cutting-edge legal structures and proposals that assist clients in achieving objectives that allow the development of groups involved in the mining sector. We offer our clients structures guaranteeing legal certainty and optimisation of dividends distribution to shareholders, as well as setting up efficient security packages. The Firm's tax practice has the backup of first rate documentary and information technology resources that are essential to capitalising on knowledge in such a highly technical legal field.
M&A - Due Diligence Review
The Mining Team assists its clients throughout the process of acquiring mining companies or mining titles (setting up joint ventures, all related agreements). We often conduct due diligence reviews on mining rights, mining contracts, or mining companies developing deposits. Our vast experience and extensive knowledge of the mining industry allows a swift analysis of the issues at hand and the consequences of the proposed transactions.
Project Financing and Security
The Mining Team advises governments, international financial institutions, banks as well as mining companies on all aspects of infrastructure financing, of whatever nature may be envisaged. Mining projects often implicate a concurrent need to set up and build ancillary projects and we are used to developing innovative solutions to deal with such situations.
Institutional and Regulatory Reforms
The Mining Team regularly plays a part in institutional or regulatory reforms. It has advised governments, public companies and international financial organisations. The breadth of practice experience of our lawyers gives us a unique perspective on institutional aspects, which guarantees efficient and dynamic assistance so as to comprehensively answer clients' concerns when advising an authority or government, as well as the private sector's concerns when advising investors. More specifically, François Krotoff has advised the Minister of Mines in Guinea for many years
International Dispute Resolution
Through interdisciplinarity and understanding of mining law, the Mining Team assists clients in preventing disputes but also managing disputes. In this context, the Team advises clients at all stages from prevention to pre-litigation and litigation proceedings and is involved in the drafting of arbitration agreements, strategic decision-making, and representation of clients during arbitral proceedings, as well as proceedings before state jurisdictions related to arbitral proceeding.
Contacts
François Krotoff (Paris/London)
Nicolas Bonnefoy (London)
Leïla Hubeaut (Paris)
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- the Oil & Gas in Africa: 
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