Event Details

Cape Town | February 07, 2024

You are invited to join us at our Deep Sea Mining 101 breakaway session, as part of our events surrounding the Mining Indaba 2024.

In this session our deep sea mining experts, Lisa Koch and Jo Feldman, advise on the latest developments in deep sea mining, and explain why 2024 is the year when we might see the first steps towards exploitation for these vast untapped sources of critical minerals. Lisa and Jo will outline the basics of what investors, operators and commodity purchasers need to know to tap into this opportunity; and how to manage legal, financing, and sovereign risks.

Meet our esteemed panellists:

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Lisa Koch 
Partner and Head of Office: Norton Rose Fulbright, Australia

Lisa leads the project finance team and co-leads the mining group in Australia.

She advises on project finance and related transactions including acquisition and corporate finance primarily across natural resources, energy and infrastructure. Lisa has significant experience on complex cross-border and international transactions, with a particular focus on emerging market finance. An increasing part of Lisa's practice is focused on energy transition and sustainability finance, including the financing of carbon offset generation projects.

Lisa is a recognised lawyer for Project Finance, Banking and Finance and Natural Resources in the Asia-Pacific Legal 500 2021. She sat on the advisory board of Blue Nodules, an EU funded consortium investigating the viability of deep sea mining.

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Jo Feldman
Partner: Norton Rose Fulbright, Perth, Australia

Jo is a dispute resolution partner highly regarded for her expertise in international arbitration, government affairs, and ESG.

She is co-Chair of the Australian Law Council Trade and Business Law Committee, a Global Editor for Legal500, is recognised by LawDragon 500, and sits on the Australian Expert Advisory Committee for UNCITRAL.

She regularly advises on cross border investment and supply chain issues, including: sanctions and export controls, geopolitical risk, investment structuring, foreign investment laws, regulatory reform, critical infrastructure and national security, government incentive programs, critical minerals supply chains, business and human rights, market access, domestic content, and government grants.

   

The panel will be moderated by Christina Pretorius, the South African Mining Sector Lead at Norton Rose Fulbright.

This breakaway session follows our Critical Minerals Panel Discussion.

This is a must-see session for anyone in the critical minerals space, to understand how this emerging area of mining might change the critical minerals landscape sooner than expected.

Norton Rose Fulbright Mining Indaba team