Mar 2024
Conyers was the first international firm in the BVI with our office established in 1996, and has remained at the heart of the jurisdiction’s development into an international financial centre , as well as a key market for mining, oil and gas companies, ever since.
Conyers’ BVI transactional practice is the market leader, having advised on the highest value M&A and IPO deals in the jurisdiction to date, and the global mining industry is one of our core business areas. We routinely act on the jurisdiction’s largest and most complex transactions for many of the world’s best known publicly traded mining and natural resource exploration companies, across many geographical regions and subsectors.
Decades of advising clients in this dynamic and evolving sector means our lawyers have unmatched technical expertise and insights into its unique industry characteristics and commercial drivers, enabling us to truly understand the needs of mineral and natural resource producers as well as their investors and financers.
As a result, we consistently work on both transactions and with clients of the very highest calibre, including having acted for ten of the world’s twenty largest gold mining companies including AngloGold Ashanti, B2Gold, Gold Fields and Kinross Gold.
By keeping abreast of legislative updates, policy changes and technological innovation, we always provide the most efficient strategy, whether tried and tested or an innovative solution. Our ability to cut through complexity in proposing creative, bespoke solutions on first of a kind projects is unrivalled.
We remain the only BVI law firm with a dedicated Africa practice, with highly qualified lawyers who have significant first hand experience of the business practices and structures across its nations, as well as the nuances of legal regimes that are still developing or undergoing political change. This, combined with our understanding of the various complexities of the mining, oil and gas industries, means we are now the offshore law firm of choice for many clients doing business in Africa.