Our firm's experience includes business transactions, involving concessions and joint ventures, as well as dispute resolution, in relation to minerals and metals.

Examples of Matters Relating to Natural Resources :

• Iron ore

  Participation in negotiation and drafting of a framework agreement between an American company and an African company, including a Management Services Contract, support services contract for design and engineering, procurement services and management of construction.

• Aluminum

  Participation in the negotiation and drafting of a bauxite export contract between a European purchaser and a South American mining company with an extended term.

  Analysis of the due diligence findings of specialized engineering consultants as to the environmental risks related to the acquisition of a French aluminum can manufacturing plant, in the context of an overall evaluation of legal risks involved in acquisition of French operations.

• Uranium

  Lead lawyer in elaboration and drafting of the damages brief in an ICC arbitration with a FRF 7,000,000,000 claim against a Middle Eastern state in the context of a long-term contract for the construction and operation of a uranium-enrichment infrastructure project in France, and in-depth review and analysis of a related agreement between a nuclear power company and an electrical power company for the supply of electrical energy to run the nuclear enrichment plant and for exchange of electricity.

• Commodities

  Arbitrator in a case of supply of vanilla grown in the Indian Ocean by many small producers, grouped in cooperatives and sold in the United States.

• Wood products

  Princaipl attorney drafting contats for wood production and plywood processing in Indonesia.