Charles L.K. (Chuck) Higgins

Chuck Higgins provides counsel on commercial and financial matters to a number of national and international mining and energy companies and investment dealers. Chuck has considerable experience with joint ventures, acquisitions and capital and debt transactions involving resource businesses. Chuck also worked for the Federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources as a Senior Economist. He is the past chair, from 1993 to 1995, of the Natural Resources and Energy Section of the Canadian Bar Association and he has been recognized for his expertise in mining by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers each year from 2001, and by Lexpert in both the mining and oil & gas areas.

Chuck articled and worked as an associate in the Calgary office of Macleod Dixon LLP from 1982 to 1986, then moved to the Toronto office of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Chuck rejoined Macleod Dixon LLP in 1994 as the founding partner of that firm's Toronto office. He joined Fasken Martineau in 2001.

Selected Experience

• Sillenger secures partnership exploration contract with the Republic of Benin
• Reverse takeover of Wedge Energy International Inc. by Undur Tolgoi Minerals Inc.

News

• Mining is Our Middle Name: Fasken Martineau helps Sillenger secure partnership exploration contract with the Republic of Benin
• Chuck Higgins is quoted in Lexpert magazine on Fasken Martineau's mining expertise and Canada's growing mining business

Publications

• Canadian Mining Law
• Amendments to National Instrument 43-101

Presentations

• PDAC Primer
• Plan Nord - What you should know!

Membership/Affiliations

• Executive Member and Past Chair, Ontario Bar Association - Energy and Natural Resources Section
• Elected Member and Member, Program Committee of the Mineral Economics Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
• Member and Regional Committee Chair, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation

Honours and Awards

• Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2010, 2011: Mining
• Distinguished Service Award, Canadian Bar Association, 1996