Skip to Main Content

Mining, Minerals, and Metals

Our Mining, Minerals, and Metals lawyers advise clients in the minerals, mining, steel, and specialty metals industries across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, Russia and the CIS, and South America.

Our experience spans the range of natural resources exploration, development and production companies—including base and precious metals, minerals, coal, steel and aggregates. We represent mining and metals companies, investors, and advisors in all aspects of their businesses. Our global platform includes lawyers with experience across a broad range of disciplines who work seamlessly to ensure effective and efficient staffing for every client project.

The comprehensive legal services we provide to mining and metals industry clients include:

  • Antitrust and competition 
  • Capital markets
  • Cartel investigations
  • Contracts
  • Distribution arrangements
  • Environmental claims, permitting, and compliance
  • EU Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)
  • Export controls
  • Finance
  • Foreign direct investment
  • Infrastructure development
  • International trade regulation
  • Joint ventures
  • Labor, employment and workplace safety
  • Litigation and dispute resolution
  • Mergers and acquisitions 
  • Private equity
  • Product liability
  • Project finance
  • Project development
  • Sanctions
  • Substance registration and regulation 
Additional Thought Leadership Pages
Return to top of page

Email Disclaimer

We welcome your email, but please understand that if you are not already a client of K&L Gates LLP, we cannot represent you until we confirm that doing so would not create a conflict of interest and is otherwise consistent with the policies of our firm. Accordingly, please do not include any confidential information until we verify that the firm is in a position to represent you and our engagement is confirmed in a letter. Prior to that time, there is no assurance that information you send us will be maintained as confidential. Thank you for your consideration.

Accept Cancel