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AlixPartners still paddling upstream to take over Afren’s assets

Law firm AlixPartners is taking its time in liquidating the assets of British oil firm Afren, which has been under [...]

Free access Energy 02.05.2017

Africa, Europe, United States
Transatlantic battle for "conflict minerals"

While the European Union (EU) is working on fine-tuning the framework of its new draft regulation on the traceability of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Africa
Banker Ian Hannam racks up mining contracts

London-based financial advisory firm Hannam & Partners is building up steam in the mining sector across the continent.

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Africa, United States
Mahmoud Thiam spruces up for his big hearing

Unsurprisingly, in early April the judges of the court for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Africa
Fieldfisher Paris ever more into mines

By joining the Parisian offices of British law firm Fieldfisher, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Africa
Ex-Norton Rose Fulbright sets up shop on his own

In April, Radu Costinescu, the lawyer specialist in energy and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Africa
Moment of truth for Australian firm FAR

The junior is at a crossroads: it absolutely must raise the funds needed to finance its developments and seal off its purchases.

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Africa
Van Roosmalen brought in to wake Addax from its coma

According to our sources, to help it weather a mounting storm (see here), Addax Petroleum recently hired a new legal [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Africa
OMV’s former head of Africa, John Austin goes solo

After leaving his post at the beginning of the year [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.04.2017

Spotlight | Africa
Julien Balkany adds carats to his crude

Active in the African oil sector, French businessman Julien Balkany is in the process of setting up a diamond mining company and preparing to acquire mining titles in Guinea or Lesotho. He has called on big guns in the finance [.

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Africa, United States
Mahmoud Thiam's last bid to avoid court action

At the end of March, Mahmoud Thiam and his lawyers, Aaron Goldsmith, Paul Summit and Andrew Salomon, asked the judges [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Africa
Altus Strategies prepares for float

David Netherway, Oxford Mining Club’s master of ceremonies, is preparing to float its African mining investment firm Altus Strategies in May.

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Africa
Alan Davies moving on after Rio Tinto

The target of an international financial investigation into the conditions in which the Simandou iron blocks were awarded in Guinea [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Africa
Christopher Dempsey gives Canadian gold magnets helping hand

Lawyer Christopher Dempsey is giving Canada’s East Africa Metals, which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Africa | Junior
A Camac manager packs up and leaves

Fisoye Delano, the vice president of American-Nigerian Kase Lawal’s Camac [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.03.2017

Africa
Tullow looks to the market to cover its debts

After registering an operational debt of $755 million in 2016, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.03.2017

United States
Isabel dos Santos’ jewellery arrives in Manhattan

While Isabel dos Santos was speaking from Houston as head [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.03.2017

Africa, France
Lawyers cast doubt about mining infrastructure

While public contracting is gaining ground in mining projects across [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.03.2017

Spotlight | Africa
Sahara Energy makes its contacts work all over Africa

Sahara Energy, which has been a trading institution in Nigeria for the last 20 years, has succeeded in becoming a key player in trading in crude oil and products in numerous African countries. The two leaders of this rapid ascension, [.

Subscribers only Energy 14.03.2017

Africa
Klusener tries to save Addax from catastrophe

Since Addax Petroleum’s auditor, Deloitte, refused to certify its 2015 accounts, the company’s influential chief legal officer, Guus Klusener, has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.03.2017

Africa, France
UraMin affair continues to weigh on Areva

The charging of Gerald Arbola, Areva's former deputy chief executive, on February 24, brings to a close the judicial investigation [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.03.2017

Africa
Shanghai hedge fund Sailing Capital shops for gold and copper

According to our information, Chinese private equity fund Sailing Capital [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.03.2017

Spotlight | Africa
Klusener first in the firing line in Addax/Deloitte scandal

With its executives leaving in droves and its production in the doldrums, Addax Petroleum, which was bought out by Sinopec in 2009 for $7.2 billion, has run into trouble of a different order. Although the crisis has been largely contained [.

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2017

Africa
Bowmans seeks leading position in African oil

In naming French national Nicolas Bonnefoy a partner, the South [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2017

Africa
Boivin stages get-together for French-speaking miners

Leading lights among miners in French-speaking Africa rubbed shoulders at a meeting dubbed Franco-Mine during the Investing in African Mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.02.2017

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