Mining Industry
If you’re involved with the mining industry, allow us to help you with any tenement advice, documentation, joint ventures, as well as any acquisition and sale agreements. With decades of legal support to the mining industry including service as directors, chairman and promoters of new mining floats, McAuliffe Legal can assist.
Tenement Advice and Documentation
McAuliffe Legal can assist you with:
- Tenure acquisition
- Applications
- Effecting transfers/caveats following acquisition by purchase, farm in, joint venture or any other arrangement
- Due diligence (for asset acquisitions, disposals or IPOs)
- Tenure compliance matters, including
- expenditure reporting requirements (and any exemption applications)
- monitoring compliance dates and lodgement of annual technical reports, annual environmental reports and mine closure plans
- payment and monitoring of rents and rates
- combined reporting applications
- private property inclusions
- applications for renewal
- voluntary and compulsory reductions of area
- Management of Mining Act objections and assistance with negotiating resolutions
- Tenure rationalisation strategies to reduce costs and compliance burden
- Advice in relation to tenure strategy
- Native title and heritage advice (including management of native title objections and assistance with negotiation of heritage agreements)
Joint Ventures, Acquisition & Sale Agreements
Mark McAuliffe’s experience includes drafting and advising on sale and purchase agreements, farm-in and joint venture documentation, mining contracts, construction contracts, State Agreements and other resource-related documentation and also dealing with environment, native title and stamp duty issues.