Title Review and Due Diligence

Title Review and Due Diligence

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You need to know the deficiencies, defects, liabilities and claims that may affect or delay your plans. Partner with a firm for your title reviews and due diligence that provides timely, meaningful analysis on all the legal issues that affect your project’s development goals and timelines.

With Dentons, you can leverage an experienced team of lawyers. Whether you’re making a decision about pursuing or completing a mineral or mining acquisition, effecting title transfers, obtaining a title opinion for project financing or seeking a listing on an exchange, we’ll provide speedy but thorough due diligence.

We know the due diligence searches to conduct, the laws that apply, the agreements to review, and the regulators to consult in order to provide you with an exceptional understanding of any title, access, contractual, regulatory and environmental issues relating to any historical, existing or proposed mine or mineral project.

Experience

Argonaut Gold Inc.: Advising the Canadian gold producer with respect to its operations in Durango, Baja Sur and Sonora, Mexico, on mining, corporate, finance and securities matters, including in connection with its proposed CA$341 million business combination with Prodigy Gold Incorporated; on its CA$367 million business combination with Pediment Gold Corp.; in connection with its CA$150 million three-part transaction involving a financing through GMP Securities LP to raise CA$150 million, a business combination with Intuitivo Capital Corp. to become a public company, and the simultaneous completion of a CA$103 million take-over of Castle Gold Corporation; and advising Argonaut Gold geological and engineering consultants and staff on the requirements for technical reporting under National Instrument 43-101. Our team is privileged to play a key advisory role in the execution of Argonaut Gold's growth strategy.
Eastcoal Inc.: Advising the Canadian mining company developing its Verticalnaya anthracite mine in the Ukraine, on mining, corporate, securities and financing matters, including in connection with its restructuring under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Wash Plant Commissioning and Alternative Investment Market listing, bridge-loan facility and earlier private placement financing; the acquisition and financing of both mines; and advising Eastcoal geological and engineering consultants and staff on the requirements for technical reporting under National Instrument 43-101.
Golden Predator Corp.: Advising the Canadian exploration and development company with one of the largest controlled land positions in the Yukon, in connection with its C$35 million loan facility with RK Mine Finance for production financing, including offtake agreements and on its Brewery Creek acquisition from Alexco Resource Corp. Advising Golden Predator geological and engineering consultants and staff on their ongoing technical reporting requirements under National Instrument 43-101.
McEwen Mining Inc.: Advising US Gold Corporation as Canadian counsel in its 2012 acquisition by plan of arrangement of Minera Andes Inc. to form McEwen Mining Inc., with a market capitalization of approximately C$1.4 billion at the time of closing. We were one of seven law firms in Canada and the US representing the companies and the Special Committees of the Boards of Directors, in addition to local counsel in Argentina and Mexico. Advising McEwen Mining’s geological and engineering consultants and staff on the requirements for technical reporting under National Instrument 43-101. The goal of McEwen Mining Inc. is to qualify for inclusion in the S&P 500 by 2015 by creating a high-quality, high-growth, low-cost, mid-tier gold producer focused in the Americas.
Premier Gold Mines Limited: Advising the North American-focused exploration and development company, with respect to multiple bought deal equity share offerings in the aggregate of CA$150.5 million and in connection with its CA$104 million acquisition of Goldstone Resources Inc. The acquisition consolidates 100 percent ownership of the Hardrock Project in Canada that is host to a multimillion-ounce National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource estimate.
Southern Legacy Minerals, Inc.: Advising on the CA$57 million business combination with Sinchao Metals Corp., by way of a merger pursuant to the Idaho General Business Corporations Act between Southern Legacy and Sinchao Idaho, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and concurrent private placement financing. In connection with the transaction, the Company changed its name to “Southern Legacy Minerals Inc.” and commenced trading on the TSX Venture Exchange on July 3, 2012 under the symbol “LCY." The combined property holdings of Sinchao and Southern Legacy has resulted in a portfolio of base and precious metals projects spanning the Andes in Peru, Colombia and Chile.
Stillwater Mining Company: Advising on Canadian mining and securities matters, including in connection with its acquisition of Peregrine Metals Ltd. for C$487 million; its C$118 million acquisition of Marathon PGM Corporation by way of plan of arrangement, including a joint venture with Mitsubishi with respect to the Marathon Project; and advising geological and engineering consultants and staff for Stillwater on the requirements for technical reporting under National Instrument 43-101. Stillwater is the only US producer of palladium and platinum and is the largest primary producer of platinum group metals outside of South Africa and the Russian Federation. Stillwater plans to further delineate, develop and operate Peregrine’s Altar porphyry copper-gold deposit, a large, undeveloped open-pit resource located in the San Juan province of Argentina.

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