Aggregate, sand, lithium, copper, tungsten and other resources drawn from the ground are the building blocks of modern infrastructure, but getting a quarry or mine permitted, financed and operational is anything but simple. Our mining industry attorneys understand both the local and state government entitlement and permitting processes and the courtroom, giving clients the tools to advance difficult-to-permit projects.

We advise mining companies across the full lifecycle of their operations. Our attorneys handle site acquisition and due diligence, negotiate construction and project development agreements, and structure project financing and tax mitigation and development incentives. We guide clients through environmental and regulatory aspects of corporate and real estate transactions, land development, and permitting, and we stay involved through mine expansion and reclamation projects. The team includes lawyers who advise clients on business transactions such as asset acquisitions, company sales and pipeline logistics deals as well as attorneys who handle insolvency issues, representing both creditors and debtors in bankruptcy proceedings and corporate restructurings and dissolutions. We have restructured gold, silver and gypsum mines under Chapter 11 and handled cross-border Chapter 15 mining cases.

We have represented multiple mining companies on land use and regulatory matters spanning aggregate quarry development, sand and sand rock mining, and tungsten, copper, limestone, and lithium extraction. Our practice includes working daily, in some capacity, with aggregate mines and construction materials. In addition, we recently guided a privately owned mining, metals, and minerals consulting business through the sale of its business and assets to an international mining and minerals consulting firm and we are actively involved in the development of a tungsten mine.

Environmental compliance is often where mining projects live or die, and it’s an area where we have deep experience. We recently served as environmental and land use counsel for a regional contractor and developer restoring and redeveloping a former permitted mine and inactive hazardous waste site on Long Island, New York, including navigating solid waste facility permitting under Part 360 of the New York State Solid Waste Regulations. For a major mining company, we negotiated a global consent order with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation resolving petroleum bulk storage violations at facilities across the state.

Whether the challenge is a contested rezoning, complex environmental cleanup, or a multimillion-dollar transaction, our attorneys bring the working knowledge of the industry that mining clients need to keep projects — and their businesses — moving forward.