DGS has a long history of involvement in natural resources law and has developed a broad-based mining practice. We advise clients on all legal and transactional aspects of the exploration, development, production, and marketing of base and precious metals, industrial minerals, and energy sources such as coal, uranium, and geothermal resources. We have worked on projects throughout the United States, Canada, Central and South America, the Pacific Rim, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe, and elsewhere around the world. In the United States, we have broad experience with both leaseable and locatable minerals on federal public lands. The mining group lawyers also have significant experience in mineral title examination.
Our lawyers are well known for their work in major mining acquisitions, joint ventures, development projects, and divestitures, and over the past several years the firm has worked on a number of significant mining transactions, including acquisitions of gold mines in Russia, the western United States and South America, the acquisition of coal mines, sales of major mining companies, and the financing of operations at gold and other metals mines in the United States and in other countries. By working closely with tax, corporate, creditors’ rights, environmental and public lands lawyers, we are able to bring a breadth of experience to any project that allows for the completion of mining transactions most efficiently and creatively.
The firm also has significant experience in mineral financing and taxation. Our lawyers have handled many financing transactions, for both borrowers and lenders, not only involving traditional project financing but also using gold loans and other innovative commodity-based security arrangements to finance development of mining operations. Our tax lawyers have substantial experience in the wide variety of U.S. and international tax issues that arise in structuring transactions involving the mineral extraction industries. Our litigation lawyers have broad experience in mining issues, running the gamut from royalty disputes to construction contracts to the impact of bankruptcy on a mining transaction.
In addition to our experience with mining transactions, financing and litigation, our lawyers have been actively involved in industry efforts to analyze and react to proposed legislative changes to the 1872 Mining Law, and administrative actions which have impacted the location, maintenance and conduct of operations on unpatented mining claims and other federal lands.
The links to the right offer additional detail on our extensive experience in the Mining Industry.