Metals and Mining

An Established Leader

For decades, Sidley has advised global market leaders across the metals and mining sector worldwide. Metals and mining companies, private equity firms, and financial institutions rely on Sidley to execute their most complex, consequential, and high-value transactions. We represent clients across jurisdictions globally on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, capital markets offerings, financings, royalty and offtake arrangements, and other strategic transactions. Our experience spans the full spectrum of metals and mining interests, from exploration and extraction through processing, smelting, refining, and trading. Our work on significant transactions demonstrates our ability to support our clients in navigating the current environment and executing their strategic plans. We pride ourselves on delivering for our clients in critical situations.

Sidley is a global metals and mining powerhouse that delivers end-to-end counsel across the metals and mining value chain.

Serving clients in the metals and mining sector for more than 30 years.

A Pivotal Moment

The metals and mining sector faces a pivotal moment, as global trends, policy developments, geopolitical events, and rapid technological and workforce changes reshape the competitive environment. Established industries are undergoing profound change while new ones emerge, with a backdrop colored by energy transition trends, advanced manufacturing efforts, supply chain security needs, cost pressures, and financing considerations providing new demands and opportunities.

A Preeminent Team

Sidley integrates transactional experience with deep industry knowledge to help our clients achieve their business objectives. Our Metals and Mining practice is differentiated by the depth of our experience and the breadth of our support and services in a vast array of transactions around the world. We draw on our elite M&A (185+ lawyers), Private Equity (270+ lawyers), Capital Markets (125+ lawyers), Global Finance (155+ lawyers), Regulatory (135+ lawyers), and Global Arbitration and Trade (80+ lawyers) practices. Our strengths in regulatory, government strategies, global trade, antitrust and competition, foreign investment screening, sustainability, public disclosure, technology, labor, and tax, among other things, allow us to identify and realize opportunities and manage legal risk in the industries, while commercially and efficiently executing deals.

We work with all types of metals and mining participants and stakeholders, including mining, processing, manufacturing, and trading companies, private equity firms, investors, financial institutions, and end users. Our sector-leading lawyers possess deep experience across a broad spectrum of metals and minerals. These range from the rare earth elements and other critical materials underpinning energy transition trends and emerging technologies, to the steel and coal that has served as the backbone of economic activity, and everything in between.