Aug. 19, 2024 - Following the Canadian Competition Bureau’s 2023 Retail Grocery Market Study in which it recommended that provincial and territorial governments take measures to limit property controls in the grocery industry, including banning their use, the Bureau recently released for public comment a...
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Barrick Enters into an Agreement to Sell 50% of Zaldívar Mine to Antofagasta Plc
Davies acted for Barrick Gold Corporation in connection with its $1.005-billion sale of a 50% interest in the Zaldívar copper mine in Chile to Chile-based Antofagasta Plc. With this agreement, Barrick formed a new joint venture partnership with Antofagasta, one of the world’s leading copper companies.
The Davies team on this transaction included Melanie Shishler, Joshua Kuretzky, Jennifer Grossklaus and Atanas Varbanov (Mergers & Acquisitions), Geoffrey Turner (Taxation), Sarah Powell (Environmental) and John Bodrug and Jim Dinning (Competition & Foreign Investment Review).
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