Mineral Exploration & Mining Law
Endeavor Law is a boutique business law firm in Vancouver, British Columbia providing mineral exploration and mining law (as well as related corporate law, commercial law and securities law) advice and services to start-up, private and junior to mid-tier public domestic and international mining sector clients pursuing grassroots exploration, mine development or mine operation with respect to precious and base metals, uranium, iron ore, coal and industrial minerals including advice and legal services related to the acquisition and divestiture of metal or mineral exploration and development projects; debt and or equity financing of metal or mineral projects and related infrastructure; and structuring, negotiating and documenting option, earn-in and farm-in agreements, operator agreements, streaming agreements, royalty and off-take agreements, shareholder agreements, partnerships, joint ventures and other arrangements to facilitate exploration, capital investment and mining project development.
With access to a network of national and international litigation and mining sector specialists, Endeavor Law can facilitate representation and advice on litigation and mining regulatory matters, tax, environmental, employment, competition and foreign regulatory or investment aspects of transactions involving participants in the mining sector as and when appropriate needed given the size or scope of the client or needed given the complexity or jurisdiction of the legal issues involved.
Endeavor Law has acted on behalf of private and publicly-traded gold, silver, rare-earth and diamond exploration companies with property interests in British Columbia, Ontario, Yukon Territory, the United States, Mexico, Africa and Russia in relation to successful private and public debt and equity offerings which raised over $300 million in aggregate.
Leveraging Endeavor Law’s corporate, securities, capital markets and public companies experience, Endeavor Law provides legal counsel and services to public mining sector clients with respect to all corporate registration, maintenance and compliance matters; initial public offerings, flow-through financings, marketed and “bought deal” public offerings of equity and debt, rights offerings and private placements of equity and debt; stock exchange listing, maintenance and compliance; qualifying transactions for CPCs, mergers and acquisitions, solicited and unsolicited take-over bids, plans of arrangement, shareholder proxy disputes, leveraged buy-outs and management buy-outs; and corporate and securities law compliance (including National Instrument 43-101 disclosure), continuous disclosure, shareholder meetings, related party transactions and corporate governance.