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Derek N. Linfield
Managing Principal

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+44 20 7367 0185
dlinfield@stikeman.com


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Representative Work

Mr. Linfield has recently acted for:

  • African Rainbow Minerals Limited in connection with its joint venture with Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and consequential acquisition of the minority interest in Teal Exploration & Mining Incorporated.


  • Nikanor plc in its US$3.3 billion merger with Katanga Mining Ltd.


  • Canaccord Adams on the £10 million financing for DHX Media (Canadian film production) and its admission to AIM and listing on the TSX.


  • Adastra Minerals (assets in the Congo and Angola) in connection with its acquisition by First Quantum Minerals Limited.


  • Sandvine Inc. (broadband software) on its £20 financing and admission to AIM.


  • Canaccord Adams on the £26 million financing of Excapsa Software (gaming software) and its listing on AIM.


  • Adastra Minerals in connection with its C$10.2 million financing.


  • RBC Capital Markets and Haywood Securities on the C$42.4 million financing of TEAL Exploration and Mining (assets in Namibia, Zambia and Congo) and its listing on the TSX.


  • Canaccord Adams on the C$500.4 million financing and RTO into a TSX-V listed company of UrAsia Energy (assets in Kazakhstan).


  • Randgold Resources (assets primarily in Mali) on the Canadian aspects of its US$101 million financing.


  • Westwind Partners on its US$42 million private placement financing of Nevada company Big Sky Energy (assets in Kazakhstan).


  • Sierra Leone Diamond Company Limited on its £21.2 million financing and admission to AIM.


  • Canaccord Capital (Europe) on the reverse takeover of TSX listed Northway Explorations by Caspian Energy (assets in Kazakhstan) and the C$38.5 million financing for Caspian in connection with its admission to AIM.


  • RBC Capital Markets, Rand Merchant Bank and JPMorgan Securities as joint-lead managers and underwriters of a US$298 million international offering of shares of Mvelphanda Resources, a South African company controlled by Toyko Sexwale and listed on the JSE in South Africa, to fund the equity component of the acquisition price for 15 per cent of Goldfields' South African assets.


  • Canaccord Capital Europe on the C$19.6 million convertible loan note financing for European Goldfields (assets in Romania and Greece) and its admission to AIM.


  • Canaccord Capital Europe on the US$24 million and US$44.7 million financings for Thistle Mining (assets in South Africa and the Philippines).


  • Ashanti Goldfields (assets throughout Africa) on the Canadian aspects of its US$1.1billion merger with AngloGold.


  • Adastra Minerals (assets in the Congo and Angola) on its C$27.7 million financing and its admission to AIM.


  • Canaccord Capital Europe on the admission to AIM of Yamana Gold (assets in Brazil).


  • Canaccord Capital Europe on the admission to AIM of Bema Gold (assets in Russia, South Africa and Chile).


  • RBC Capital Markets and BoE Securities on the US$150 million international offering of the shares of African Rainbow Minerals Gold, a South African company controlled by Patrice Motsepe, in connection with its listing on the JSE (South Africa).
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