Mining

PunoLaw has acted for both domestic and foreign mining companies in their acquisition of the mining claims and rights covered by existing projects with the ultimate objective of rehabilitating and rendering these projects operational and productive. PunoLaw has rendered a broad range of services for these clients, including extensive due diligence, structuring their investments in the mining claims, negotiating and drafting the acquisition documents, and acquiring all permits for the rehabilitation and opening of the mining projects by coordinating and establishing ties with the affected local governments, national government agencies, indigenous peoples, and concerned non-governmental organizations.

PunoLaw’s mining industry expertise is complemented by its broad range of practice areas to ensure that we can help our clients overcome the various transactional, regulatory, compliance, litigation and stakeholder challenges unique to the ownership and development of mining projects in the Philippines.

PunoLaw’s mining clientele includes

• Freeport-McMoRan Inc.
• Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation
• Sagittarius Mines, Inc.