Mining and Metals

Overview

Gibson Dunn’s Mining and Metals group advises clients on complex commercial, transactional, regulatory and strategic matters across the full value chain of the rapidly evolving global minerals and mining sector. With experience spanning critical and strategic minerals, base metals, and precious metals, our work reflects a deep understanding of the industry’s role in advancing new technologies and building sustainable supply chains.

The mining and metals industry is experiencing a historic realignment driven by accelerating demand for critical and strategic minerals, global decarbonization and electrification initiatives, shifts in geopolitical supply chains, and sustained investment in advanced extraction, processing and recycling technologies. Our multidisciplinary team is positioned to support public and private mining and processing companies, metal producers, private equity investors and asset managers, financial institutions, offtakers and trading companies, and other market participants as they navigate these developments and pursue complex, high-value business opportunities in North America and worldwide.

Substantive areas that the Mining & Metals Practice handles include:

• Mergers & Acquisitions: advising on public and private company acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments and partnerships, asset purchases and divestures across the base metal, precious metals, critical minerals, and mining services segments.
• Private Equity: representing private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, sovereign and strategic investors in buy-side and sell-side transactions, minority investments, growth capital financings related to mining assets, processing facilities, and vertically integrated supply chains.
• Capital Markets: advising metals and mining companies, as well as underwriters and institutional investors on accessing the equity and debt capital markets, initial listings and dual listings in the United States, registered and private placement offerings (including IPOs), issuance of project bonds, SPAC transactions, and redomiciliations.
• Financing: representing borrowers, lenders, and financial institutions in corporate finance, project finance, structured finance, equipment financing, and other commercial lending transactions tailored to the sector’s unique risk profile and capital needs.
• Commercial and Operational Transactions: advising on long-term supply agreements, offtake arrangements, tolling and processing agreements, royalties, streaming agreements, logistics and transportation contracts, and other commercial arrangements.
• Environmental, International Trade and other Regulatory Matters: advising on permitting, compliance, mine development and closure obligations, ESG considerations, and the full range of trade and investment regulations affecting mineral supply chains, including export controls, tariffs, sanctions and national security reviews.
• Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration: exceptional litigation services that emphasize trial readiness, strategic problem-solving, efficient case management, deep appellate expertise, and experience advising multinational corporations and sovereign states in ad hoc and institutional proceedings across all major arbitral rules, including AAA/ICDR, ICC, HKIAC, ICSID, SCC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, SIAC, and CAS.