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Spotlight | DRC
Africo Resources' shareholders want Och-Ziff to pay up

As Africa Mining Intelligence revealed (AMI 404), a group of former shareholders of Canadian junior Africo Resources, which previously owned the Katanga copper project Kalukundi, is preparing to file for damages in the US against American hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital [...]

Published on 12.12.2017 at 03:30 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Africo Resources
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Fleurette Group
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Joel Cohen
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Glencore strives to reach compromise with US Justice Department

The trading giant, which last month said it had set aside $1.5bn to settle US and UK investigations into its activities, is trying to negotiate a compromise with the US Department of Justice, in particular on the Congolese part of Washington's probes.

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Och-Ziff investment group could face still more flak over the deal it did with Dan Gertler

Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, which recently changed its name to Sculptor Capital Management, has settled its dispute with former Africo shareholders over its takeover of the Kalukundi copper project in association with Dan Gertler. It still faces the threat of further legal action, however, from civil society interests.

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Glencore wants Swiss not US courts to rule on shareholder dispute

Lawyers of the Swiss trading house Glencore, of its CEO Ivan Glasenberg and of its CFO Steven Kalmin, are waiting [...]

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Katanga Mining settles debt with Glencore thanks to… Glencore

Katanga Mining, a copper and cobalt miner active in DRC [...]

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Gryphon Advisors helps Katanga Mining pay off its debt to Glencore

Katanga Mining, which launched a funding round among its shareholders to reimburse the $4.4 billion it owns its parent company Glencore, has hired Gryphon Advisors to help make sure things run smoothly.

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DRC
Och-Ziff vs. Africo: Kalukundi appraisal due mid-November

Mining consultant Neil Rigby should soon present his estimation of how much the Africa's former shareholders can ask from Och-Ziff for the loss of the Kalukundi copper and cobalt site.

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DRC
Falling cobalt prices at the heart of Och-Ziff and Africo scuffle

A group of former Africo Resources investors has been authorised by court to seek damages from American hedge fund Och-Ziff [...]

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DRC
US and South Africa team up for Kamoto class action

Former shareholders of Katanga Mining, the mining arm of Swiss [...]

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DRC
Glencore investors continue search for Jacque Lubbe

Katanga Mining's investors have one last hurdle to overcome before they can launch their class action against the Glencore subsidiary [...]

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Glencore's woes over Kamoto flow over into New Jersey

Although Glencore has just managed to settle its differences with Gecamines and Dan Gertler over the Kamoto copper mine, the suit filed by its shareholders over the same site has only just begun.

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Africo shareholders once again plead their case before the DoJ

Lawyers of former Africo Resources shareholders met with representatives of [...]

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Moore Stephens lambasts mines' financial transparency record

The report on the state of Congo-K's extractive industry for [...]

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Washington calls for financial clemency for Och-Ziff

The American government has asked that no further payments are claimed from Och-Ziff, which has already accepted to pay $213 million for contravening the FCPA in connection with its mining activities.

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Africo's ex-shareholders take on Och-Ziff… and the DoJ!

As predicted by Africa Mining Intelligence (AMI 405), on 20 February a group of ex-shareholders in the mining company Africo [...]

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United States condemns Dan Gertler

The American Treasury Department has sanctioned Israeli businessman Dan Gertler, [...]

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Africo Resources' shareholders want Och-Ziff to pay up

Private equity fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, which accepted in September 2016 to pay a $413 million fine to an [...]

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DWF and Linklaters help Glencore snap up Gertler’s assets

Having merged in January with the French law firm Heenan [...]

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Dan Gertler's secrets exposed in New York

Transactions carried out by Dan Gertler in Katanga cropped up in the Security and Exchanges Commission's case against the Och-Ziff fund in New York.

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ENRC, New Master of Katanga

As Africa Mining Intelligence anticipated would be the case in [...]

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