Our international delegates

Our Norton Rose Fulbright Mining Indaba team this year features senior, international delegates renowned for their expertise across various fields. These distinguished thought leaders bring decades of experience, ensuring a dynamic exchange of ideas and fostering connections that transcend borders.

Norton Rose Fulbright, United States

Steven I. Suzzan - Head of Business Practices, New York. Steve is a securities and M&A partner based in New York, with a practice focusing on corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate finance and corporate governance.

Ayşe Yuksel Mahfoud - Global Head of Corporate, M&A. She is a member of the firm's Global Executive Committee and Partner-in-Charge of the Istanbul office. Ayşe, who works in both New York and Istanbul, has extensive experience in a range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, privatisations, joint ventures, strategic alliances, capital markets and SPAC transactions. She also advises on corporate governance issues.

Norton Rose Fulbright, Australia

David Jewkes - Perth Head of Office. David is a corporate lawyer based in Perth with extensive cross-border experience, particularly in the Australian and Asian markets. He has a particular focus on public mergers and acquisitions (hostile and agreed bids and schemes of arrangement), equity capital market transactions (IPOs and secondary raisings including rights issues and placements), Takeovers Panel proceedings and general corporate work, including shareholder activist matters.

Jo Feldman – Dispute Resolution Partner. Jo is 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.

Norton Rose Fulbright, EMEA

Raj Karia - Head of Corporate, M&A and Securities, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Raj is a corporate lawyer based in London. He has a wealth of experience of advising companies and investment banks on M&A, equity capital markets, joint ventures and restructuring transactions. Raj has a particular knowledge of advising clients operating in the natural resources and energy sector. He is listed as a leading individual in Legal 500 (2019) and recognised as one of the leading mining lawyers in the International Who's Who of Mining Lawyers.

Christophe Asselineau – M&A and Projects Lawyer. Christophe is based in Paris and has over 30 years of experience advising on projects and M&A transactions worldwide, with a particular focus on Africa. He is recognised as one of the most experienced lawyers for African M&A and projects work, particularly in the energy and infrastructure industries. He has advised investors on transactions in more than 25 civil and common law countries in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, including on many of the largest and most complex or politically sensitive investments made on the African continent. He is familiar with and regularly advises on matters governed by OHADA law, the common body of commercial and company laws applicable in 17 African countries.

Felicity Brown – Senior Finance Lawyer. Felicity is based in London and brings a wealth of experience advising on project finance and developing market structured finance transactions. She has a particular focus on the mining sector. Felicity advises sponsors, banks, debt funds, DFIs/ECAs, traders and other alternative financiers on the structuring and execution of financing transactions. She has also advised extensively on offtake, stream and royalty transactions in the metals and minerals sector, in relation to offtakes linked directly to financing arrangements, and on a stand-alone basis.

Martin McCann – Senior Finance Lawyer. Martin, based in London, led our global Infrastructure, Mining and Commodities sector team, and for many years led our corporate and banking teams around the world as the Global Head of Business. He is a leader in all aspects of debt financing, from greenfield projects to financial restructuring, and is one of the most experienced project finance lawyers in London. He is in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame – having achieved Band 1 for ten years – in four separate categories: Emerging Markets; Mining and Minerals, Energy and Infrastructure; and Infrastructure (PFI and PPP).

Dan Metcalfe – Senior Banking Lawyer. Dan is based in London and focuses on infrastructure (including telecommunications infrastructure and real estate development), energy and natural resources, with a particular focus in emerging market jurisdictions. He has particular experience across Europe, Middle East and Africa, and advises on the finance aspects of projects and acquisitions, as well as other complex financing arrangements, including mezzanine and other multi-tiered or tranched financing arrangements. Dan advises borrowers, commercial lenders and development finance institutions, suppliers and offtakers.

Jon Perry – Corporate Lawyer. Jon is based in London and focuses on cross-border M&A with an emphasis on the mining sector. Jon acts on a wide range of mergers, acquisitions and takeovers, IPOs and other equity raisings, joint ventures and corporate restructuring transactions, including public takeovers. He acts for listed and private companies, as well as for private equity funds. He has particular experience in the mining sector, as well as food, commodities and infrastructure. Jon has also worked for clients in the telecommunications, financial institutions and industrial sectors. His focus is on complex cross-border transactions, and he has significant experience of deals in jurisdictions across Asia, South America and Africa.

Tim Ingham - Litigation and Dispute Resolution Lawyer. Tim is based in London and specialises in acting for insurers in the defence of claims against their insureds, policy coverage advice and dispute resolution. He focuses on aviation insurance claims where he advises mainly in relation to product related issues, liability exposures of large organisations involved in the aviation industry, ground handler related incidents and also complex policy coverage. He also has extensive professional indemnity, financial institutions, D&O, property and product liability insurance experience and is referred to in the Legal 500 UK 2014 edition as “first rate”.

Malte Meyer – Senior Associate, Corporate and M&A practice group. Malte, based in Germany, advises on all aspects of corporate law, in particular on national and cross-border transactions. He studied European Law at the Hanse Law School and received his LLB from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He then completed a LLM at the University of Cape Town before studying law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. During his legal clerkship, he worked for a large international law firm and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Accra/Ghana working in the areas of corporate/M&A and real estate law.

NRF Middle East LLP

Mark Berry - Senior Construction and Projects Lawyer. Based in Dubai, Mark focuses on EPC and EPCM contracts, with particular experience in the natural resources sector, and on the delivery of PPP projects, including in the waste, transport and in the accommodation sectors for health, defence and education. Mark has particular experience in the natural resources sector including mining construction and associated infrastructure development. He has particular experience in helping companies deliver effective and commercially strategic outcomes, to complex projects in challenging jurisdictions.

Alliance Partners

Innocent Kihika – Administrative Partner, Shonubi, Musoke & co (Uganda). Innocent specialises in energy, mining and infrastructure law. His experience includes advising on several Power Purchase Agreement negotiations between independent power producers and government of Uganda / UETCL, a large number of electricity generation projects, as well as transmission line projects and different aspects of Right of Way. He has also worked on a number of mining transactions within the country, and is well versed with the regulatory and licensing architecture of the energy sector in Uganda.

Brian Mataruka – Partner, Gill, Godlonton & Gerrans (Zimbabwe). Brian specialises in mining, energy, infrastructure and commercial law. He has acted for a wide range of corporate clients including several local banks, international and local mining houses, associations of engineers and architects and a number of listed corporate entities. Brian is a non-executive director of a brick manufacturing company listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.

Don’t miss the chance to engage with our global team on the ground at the Mining Indaba!