Mining

FFA is recognised in the market as a high-performance firm specialising in Brazilian mining law, ready to provide:

Comprehensive advice throughout every stage of the mining process before ANM, MME, INCRA, FUNAI and SEMAS across Brazil;

• Assistance in obtaining visas for foreign nationals;
• Representation and defence in all types of administrative and contentious proceedings involving our clients;
• Intellectual Property portfolio management;
• Assistance in incorporating mining companies;
• Advice on strategic negotiations;
• Compliance and Investigations, from prevention, executive training and internal programme implementation to board advice, crisis management, internal investigations and representation in administrative and judicial proceedings;
• Due diligence and legal opinions supporting the purchase and sale of mineral rights;
• Due diligence, legal opinions and strategic negotiation supporting takeover and M&A transactions;
• Management of mineral assets before ANM;
• Drafting all agreements relating to the client’s business, including option, acquisition, assignment, transfer and sale of mineral rights, landowner agreements, leases and service agreements;
• Advice to foreign mining companies;
• Support in litigation and arbitration;
• Support in negotiations and post-settlement solutions.

In addition to our legal team, FFA provides structured multidisciplinary consulting through geologists, mining engineers, forestry and cartographic engineers, and biologists whose experience enables effective, differentiated solutions for the identification, acquisition, negotiation and implementation of mining projects.