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Foreign mining investors to be stripped of majority ownership

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
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  • March 23 2012

Foreign mining investors will be required to divest majority ownership in companies holding mining business permits under a new Presidential Regulation issued recently

Mining M&A continues to surge

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • March 6 2012

Looking back at the public M&A activity in the last 6 months, the mining and energy sectors clearly stand out accounting for almost half of all deals

Protecting your investments in foreign courtsan australian mining company secures bilateral investment treaty remedy for local court delays

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia, India
  • -
  • March 5 2012

Australian mining company White Industries Australia Limited (White) has successfully brought a claim under the Australia-India bilateral investment treaty (BIT) seeking a remedy following a nine year delay by India’s courts

Close of submissions on senate inquiry into FIRB's "national interest test"

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 22 2011

A Senate inquiry into the adequacy of the "national interest test" after community concerns about foreign acquisition of Australian agricultural land was launched in July, chaired by Senator Bill Heffernan

Senate inquiry into the FIRB national interest test

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • August 31 2011

A Senate inquiry was recently launched, to be chaired by Senator Bill Heffernan

Supreme Court of Queensland outlines the consequences of providing for a "fair market value" in relation to the valuation of joint venture interests

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • August 19 2011

Vale Belvedere Pty Ltd v BD Coal Pty Ltd 2011 QSC 173 concerned a joint venture agreement between the parties, under which Vale Belvedere Pty Ltd (Vale Belvedere) had exercised an option to purchase the interests of BD Coal Pty Ltd (BD Coal

Do you really know where you stand with a pre-emptive rights regime?

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • July 7 2011

When drafting and interpreting pre-emptive rights arrangements, parties need to pay close attention to when those rights may or may not be triggered

Resources M&A important new government veto rights

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
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  • April 5 2011

The NSW Government is introducing veto rights on bids for companies with NSW exploration licences through the imposition of change of control and foreign investment conditions on new and renewed licences

Northern Energy: due diligence bid conditions and expert's reports

  • Gilbert + Tobin
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  • Australia
  • -
  • March 16 2011

Northern Energy Corporation's defence of the hostile bid by New Hope Corporation resulted in New Hope taking Northern Energy to the Takeovers Panel for alleged deficiencies in Northern Energy's target's statement and the independent expert's report

Panel imposes materiality requirement on bid condition and stops bidder from relying on MAC and force majeure conditions

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • October 29 2010

In an important new development in Australian takeovers, the Takeovers Panel imposed a materiality requirement on a bid condition