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Charles Schofield

Special Counsel

Mining, Resources & Renewables

Expertise

  • acquisitions and disposal of project interests and assets
  • investor arrangements, joint-ventures, farm-ins and royalty arrangements
  • major project agreements including supply, offtake, sales and marketing, and operation and management agreements
  • corporate governance and ASX listing rule obligations
  • land access, cultural heritage and environmental offsets

Experience

  • acting for an ASX listed company on establishing a high purity alumina refinery from start-up to $700m market cap
  • acting on a farm-in agreement for a private coal company with major Japanese trading house and subsequent investment by a US private equity fund
  • acting for an ASX listed lithium miner on various Canadian asset acquisitions and capital raisings
  • acting on the sale and acquisition of joint venture interests for listed and unlisted companies in coal, gold and copper mining ventures
  • acting on the acquisition of an oil and petroleum product trading company with operations in six countries
  • acting on sale of $800m direct reduction iron plant
  • acting for investment consortium selling a substantial interest in a listed power generator
  • acting on the sale of a $600m pipeline consortium
  • advising a joint venture establishing a gypsum quarry and associated wallboard factory
  • acting on establishing and growing an oilfield services company with operations in four countries
  • acting on the financing of an antimony and gold processing plant
  • acting on numerous power and water projects in structuring and acquisitions of interests
  • acting for the founders establishing a US$100m steel pipe mill
  • acting for listed and unlisted mining companies in tenement acquisitions in Australia and internationally for coal, lithium, copper, gold, zinc and other critical and industrial minerals and metals

 

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