Energy & Natural Resources: Mining

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Provided by Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Participants in the mining industry face many complex challenges and the legal landscape is intricate and evolving. CDH's mining team understands the market and has a wealth of industry experience in all facets of this specialist sector, built over many years of in-depth involvement. Our team is multi-disciplinary and includes a number of leading legal experts across a broad range of areas of speciality in south and eastern Africa. Our immersive and longstanding association with the resources sector means we have sound, practical knowledge and are capable of offering a full range of services in a comprehensive and commercial way. Our lawyers are highly skilled and have extensive experience. We are a solution driven and dynamic team, and are well placed to offer relevant advice at a strategic level as well as on day-to-day legal issues. We have long-standing relationships with a large number of key players in the South African and Kenyan industry and also act for many mid-tier and junior miners. We have been engaged by a number of foreign companies seeking to invest across Africa’s mining industry, including clients from Europe, North America, India, Russia and China. Our team has been involved in many of the largest and most prominent and complex resource industry transactions and matters in South, East, and sub-Saharan Africa, including recent headline landmark black economic empowerment (BEE) transactions.