Projects & Finance Experience

• Anglogold Ashanti - Advised AngloGold Ashanti on its $1 billion term loan facility agreement with Standard Chartered Bank to refinance its convertible bond, enabling AngloGold Ashanti to secure a longer term, cost-effective refinancing while continuing to enhance its operations and grow cash flow.
• Blue Pearl Mining - Advised Blue Pearl Mining on the acquisition financing of Thompson Creek Metals, which transformed Blue Pearl into the world’s largest publicly traded mining company producing only molybdenum.
• Cajamarquilla| Quebrada Blanca - Advised Sociedad Minera Refineria de Zinc de Cajamarquilla, a joint venture between Teck Cominco and Marubeni, in the project financing for the Phase One and Phase Two expansions of its zinc refinery in Peru. We also represented Teck on the development and various financings for its Quebrada Blanca copper mine in Chile.
• Cerro Casale | Zaldivar | Las Cristinas - Advised Placer Dome on the development and potential financing of the Cerro Casale gold/copper project in Chile, owned by Placer Dome (50%) and Bema and Arizona Star (50%). We also advised Placer Dome in its acquisition of 50% of the Zaldivar Copper Mine from its joint venture partner in such project, Outokumpu, and in various inter-company project financings thereto; and on the development, financing and sale of the Las Cristinas gold/copper project in Venezuela.
• CVRD/Inco - Advised Credit Suisse, UBS Securities, ABN AMRO and Santander as joint bookrunners, joint lead arrangers, co-syndication agents and co-documentation agents of an $18 billion financing for Companhia Vale do Rio Doce’s acquisition of Inco Limited.
• Gerdau/Quanex - Advised JP Morgan Chase as administrative agent in connection with a $1 billion senior credit facility with GTL Trade Finance, a subsidiary of Brazilian steel manufacturer Gerdau, to fund the merger of Gerdau Delaware with Quanex.
• Minera Los Pelambres - Advised a joint venture between Mitsubishi and Komatsu in the proposed truck transportation system project financing for the Minera Los Pelambres Mine in Chile, which is majority owned by Antofagasta Minerals and a consortium of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Marubeni and Nippon Mining and Metals.
• Nui Phao - Advising Dragon Capital, Tiberon Minerals and other sponsors in the development and financing of the Nui Phao poly-metallic mining project, a tungsten, fluorspar, copper, bismuth and gold mine in Vietnam.
• Pueblo Viejo - Advising Pueblo Viejo Dominicana, a joint venture between Barrick Gold and Goldcorp, in the $1.035 billion project financing and power arrangements for the development of its gold/copper resource in the Dominican Republic.
• Reko Diq - Advised the Asian Development Bank in connection with the financing arrangements for the development by Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) of a gold/copper deposit in Balochistan, Pakistan, known as Reko Diq, when such project was joint owned by BHP Billiton and Tethyan. We also represented the Barrick and Antofagasta joint venture in its negotiation with Balochistan on the TCC project agreement.