More than two decades of mineral resources and mining industry experience across both emerging and mature mining jurisdictions and capital markets internationally

Experience from precious metals to bulks, including gold, silver, PGMs, base metals (copper, nickel, zinc), rare earths, uranium, and thermal and metallurgical coal

Positions held as advisor, board and committee member and chairman, and executive management, across private, public, listed, and unlisted companies, and government, in Australia and internationally

Taken company from concept to operating mine as founder and executive director. Secured the corner stone assets and funding, advanced through exploration, discovery, resources and reserves delineation, studies, staffing, and mine development, into mining and operations

Advised across the corporate, commercial, project and regulatory lifecycle

Conceptualised, led, planned, engineered and negotiated numerous complex matters across key areas required for a successful mineral resources and mining venture, including corporate structuring, transactions, deals, tenure matters, fund raisings, listings and IPOs, and project and stakeholder matters

Extensively travelled across numerous established and emerging mining jurisdictions including Africa, and related capital markets (Australia, UK, North America)

Significant experience working with or coordinating cross culture, multi-cultural and multijurisdictional cross discipline teams.

Private placements, public offerings, stock exchange listings

Negotiating, engaging, and managing stakeholders, shareholders, and regulators

Corporate reorganisations, muli-jurisdictional unbundlings, demergers (Australia)

Due diligence

Transaction process and team coordination and management

Drafting documentation, regulatory submissions and approvals

Securities regulatory frameworks, stock exchange rules and continuous disclosure requirements (TSX, AIM (LSE), ASX, BSE)

Mineral resources and reserves reporting codes / frameworks (CRIRSCO: JORC, SAMREC, CIM – NI43-101).

Corporate set-up in numerous jurisdictions internationally within which to hold mineral rights

Mineral rights, tenure, project licencing and permitting

Ongoing project reporting regimes and related regulatory frameworks across exploration and mining

Mineral resources, mining, and environmental legislation and regulatory frameworks

Negotiating, drafting and implementing joint ventures, earn-ins, mineral rights acquisitions and sales, options agreements, mine and support infrastructure and construction, offtake

Mineral resources and reserves reporting codes / frameworks (CRIRSCO: JORC, SAMREC, CIM – NI43-101)

Extensive board experience across executive and non-executive directorships with private and public listed public companies

Chairman or member of a range of board committees, including remuneration and nomination, and audit and risk committees

Best practice corporate governance codes and guides experience includes ASX CGC, AICD, King Code IV.

Significant experience negotiating, engaging, and managing stakeholders, shareholders, regulators and government.

Significant advisory assignments includes advisory and consulting services to major middle eastern government alongside of other international advisors, relating to drafting of regulations to new non-hydrocarbon mining investment law and related fiscal regime.

Admitted Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and is a practicing Solicitor (Principal) of the Supreme Court of Queensland.

Professional and industry memberships, include the Auckland District Law Society, New Zealand Law Society, the Queensland Law Society, Auckland District Law Society, Brisbane Mining Club, Energy Resources Law Association, and Australian Institute of Company Directors (Graduate - GAICD).

Holds LLB and BMS (Finance) degrees.