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Our Global Mining team is a cut above.
Our reputation in the mining industry is unparalleled. We’ve built a top team, whose vast experience brings clarity to even the most complex mining projects around the globe.
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Overview

Your priority may be to raise capital, buy, sell or develop a project, secure title, engage Indigenous communities, governments or other stakeholders, structure a complex transaction, or resolve a dispute. You’re in our sweet spot.

We are organized as an industry group and advise companies and other stakeholders on all matter of legal issues affecting the mining sector.

Our industry contacts and knowledge of material transactions, both domestically and internationally, are second to none among international law firms. Our team is skilled and experienced in all the various legal services required by mining clients, from exploration through development to operation and closure.

We have acted in respect of projects in virtually every country of the globe, with a special emphasis on the Americas and Africa, from our offices in Canada, London and Johannesburg. We rank among the top law firms for financings and new listings on the TSX, the AIM Market, and the JSE.

Our competence in common and civil law, and cross-border matters, make us uniquely qualified to advise the mining industry.

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Team

Primary Contacts
  • John S.M. Turner, Partner | Co-Leader, Global Mining Group and Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions (CM and M&A) Group Chair, Toronto, ON, +1 416 865 4380, jturner@fasken.com
  • Andrew J. Gabrielson, Partner | Co-Leader, Global Mining Group, Vancouver, BC, +1 604 631 4844, agabrielson@fasken.com
  • Sarah Gingrich, Partner | CO-LEADER, CAPITAL MARKETS AND MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS (CM AND M&A), Calgary, AB, +1 587 233 4103, sgingrich@fasken.com
  • Michael J. Bourassa, Partner | Mining, Toronto, ON, +1 416 865 5455, mbourassa@fasken.com
  • Virginia K. Schweitzer, Partner | Co-Managing Partner, Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, +1 613 696 6889, vschweitzer@fasken.com
  • Frank Mariage, Partner | Corporate/Commercial, Montréal, QC, +1 514 397 7540, fmariage@fasken.com
  • Tom Eldridge, Partner | Banking & Finance, London, +44 (0)20 7917 8663, teldridge@fasken.com
  • Blaize Vance, Partner | Managing Partner, South Africa, Johannesburg, +27 11 586 6067, bvance@fasken.com

Client Work

  • North American Construction Group Ltd. announces closing of private placement offering of $225 million senior unsecured notes, [Deal - North American Construction Group], Private placement offering of senior unsecured notes by a premier provider of heavy civil construction and mining services in Australia, Canada, and the U.S.
  • MRF 2025 Resource Limited Partnership completes C$19.4 million initial public offering, [Deal - Middlefield Limited], MRF 2025 Resource Limited Partnership completes initial public offering.
  • Silver Tiger Metals Inc. completes C$15 million bought deal offering, [Deal - Silver Tiger Metals Inc.], Mineral exploration company engaged in exploring for gold and silver completes bought deal offering of common shares.
  • Infini acquires the Reynolds and Boulding Lake Uranium Projects, [Deal - ], Project acquisition in the mining sector.
  • SCP Resource Finance LP and Desjardins Securities Inc. co-lead C$33.5 million private placement offering of units of Magna Mining Inc., [Deal - SCP Resource Finance LP], Independent broker dealer specializing in the global mining sector leads private placement transaction for Canadian mining and exploration company.
  • First Quantum Minerals ltd. completes $1.0 billion senior notes offering and announces early results of cash tender offer for a maximum aggregate principal amount of US$750,000,000, [Deal - First Quantum Ltd.], Senior notes offering and tender offer.
  • The National Wealth Fund announces the acquisition of a 28.50% equity interest in TSXV/AIM listed Cornish Metals Inc., [Deal - National Wealth Fund], In March 2025, the National Wealth Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of the United Kingdom, completed the acquisition of 28.50% of the common shares of Cornish Metals Inc., a dual listed TSXV and AIM mineral exploration and development company owning the South Crofty underground tin mine located in...
  • The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development completes AUS$5 million equity investment in Sarytogan Graphite Limited, [Deal - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development], EBRD acquires 17.3% equity interest in Sarytogan Graphite Limited
  • Nussir ASA announces the sale of 93.55% of its shares to TSXV-listed Blue Moon Metals Inc. in a US$55.3 million share exchange transaction, [Deal - Nussir ASA], Norwegian mining company completes sale of 93.55% of its shares to a TSXV-listed mining company.

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