The firm has advised on transactions involving the world’s leading metals and mining companies for more than a century. Over the last five years, we have worked on major matters involving four of the sector’s 10 largest companies and including several of the largest-ever transactions in the sector. Lawyers in our US, European and Asian offices regularly work with metal and mining companies in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, bank financings and litigation matters. They also have extensive experience in complex matters that are unique to the industry, such as strategic extraction joint ventures, the negotiation of mineral rights with foreign governments, FCPA-related investigations and enforcement actions, and a broad range of development, environmental and logistics matters related to mining projects and operations.

• We advised Freeport McMoRan, the world's largest copper company, on its $25 billion acquisition of Phelps Dodge and on a range of securities offerings, acquisition financiang, antitrust matters and environmental and shareholder litigation matters related to this highly complex transaction.
  
  
• We advised the underwriters of a $15.2 billion rights issue by Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian mining and metals group. The rights issue is the largest such issue by a non-financial institution and the fifth-largest rights issue in history.
  
  
• We advised Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC), a Chinese engineering and construction company, on its $5.3 billion global offering of H shares, consisting of an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and an international offering in reliance on Rule 144A and Regulation S, with a concurrent offering of A shares listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. This is the largest IPO in Hong Kong and the second-largest IPO in the world in 2009.

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