The 2022 Lexpert Special Edition: Mining has named 16 Davies partners among Canada’s top practitioners.

Highlights of our notable work from the past year include advising

• Agnico Eagle Mines Limited in its merger of equals with Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd. to create a US$30-billion combined company and the gold industry’s highest-quality senior producer;
• Barrick Gold Corporation in its agreement in principle with the governments of Pakistan and Balochistan to reconstitute the Reko Diq Project in the country’s Balochistan province, which hosts one of the world’s largest undeveloped open pit copper-gold porphyry deposits;
• the special committee of independent directors of Centerra Gold Inc. in connection with its evaluation of strategic alternatives following the imposition by the Kyrgyz Republic of external management over the Kumtor Mine in May 2021;
• the special committee of the board of directors of Premium Nickel Resources Corporation in its reverse takeover of North American Nickel Inc.; and
• Pallinghurst Lithium Limited, a U.K.-based private investor in the global natural resources sector, in the exchange of its indirect 25% ownership interest in Québec-based Nemaska Lithium Inc. for shares of Livent Corporation.

This annual special edition profiles Lexpert-ranked lawyers with practices focused on mining.