Battery metals, resource nationalism and local transformation, transparency, digitalisation, climate-change, social licence to operate. These and others represent the critical economic, social and political challenges and trends shaping the future of the mining industry.

We offer clients one of the largest and most widely experienced team of mining specialists focusing on Africa. Our mining team is at the forefront of these trends, helping to shape partnerships and developments adapted to today. We act for both States and private companies as Africa’s mining landscape adjusts to the radical shift in world market demand. Made up of professionals from every horizon, our team combines in-depth knowledge of the strategic, technical and commercial drivers of the mining industry with an unrivalled capacity to field people from a variety of cultures directly on the ground, thanks to our effective presence in key African jurisdictions.

This platform enables us to advise on all aspects of mining developments anywhere on the Continent, including projects that integrate shared infrastructure to open-up the farthest reaches of entire nations, legal structuring and financial arrangements that innovate, as well as energy and infrastructure projects that are driven by or developed for the mining industry.