Practice Areas
Mining
Larrain y Asociados advises important companies and mining projects in Chile, in prospecting, exploration, mining operation and exploitation, and in acquisition of mining companies, properties and assets.
Among other matters, the firm has represented clients in financing projects, in negotiation and documentation of purchase option agreements, in commercialization of mining projects, construction of profit plants, agreement for technology development for the mining industry, in procedures for constitution of mining property and easements, in the constitution of companies governed by mining legislation and definition of legal and tax schemes adapted to the industry.
Legal advice to Sociedad Punta del Cobre S.A. on the development of the mining project “El Espino”, located in the Region of Coquimbo, Chile, with an approximate annual production of 43,000 tons of fine copper. The firm´s work is related to the financing, construction of the plant, the procedure of constitution of the mining property and easements, and also the relation with the local communities. Currently, the project is on its final feasibility stage.
Counselling to Minera Centinela (Antofagasta Minerals S.A.) in the transfer of an electricity supply agreement for it mining productive processes. This agreement was included in a group of assets which were a property of Puerto Michilla, and which were transferred to Minera Centinela.
Counsel to Albemarle Limitada in the negotiation of a BOOT agreement with Engie for the construction of 35kilometer transmission line in order to supply energy to a plant in El Salar de Atacama. This advice involves the analysis of mining rights over the route of the line and the access to the land through mining easements. This matter implies the connection of the plant in El Salar de Atacama to the national grid.
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