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