Mason Law acts for lenders, offtakers, investors, underwriters and mining companies on the financings that move projects toward production: secured loans, offtake-linked financings, strategic equity, private placements, prospectus offerings, IPOs and RTOs.
Mining finance rarely comes as a single instrument. A project’s capital stack can combine senior debt, offtake arrangements, streams and royalties, strategic equity and public offerings, each with its own security, priority and change-of-control terms. Mason Law works across that stack so the pieces fit together.
Mandates range from secured loan facilities and offtake arrangements to strategic equity investments, private placements, prospectus offerings and going-public transactions, for both sides of the table: lenders, investors and underwriters, and the companies raising capital.
Earlier in his career, Rob Mason acted on the C$946 million financing package, including a diamond stream, that funded construction of Stornoway Diamond’s Renard project, and for underwriting syndicates on more than $2 billion of equity and note offerings by Detour Gold.
For royalty and stream financings specifically, see Mining Royalties & Streams.
Lenders, streamers, royalty holders and offtakers all want security and priority. Intercreditor terms decide who is paid first if a project struggles.
Pricing, delivery and termination rights in an offtake can matter as much as the financing it sits beside.
Financing documents travel with the project. Change-of-control and transfer terms shape a company’s future M&A options.
Public issuers need their financing terms and market disclosure to stay in step, from term sheet to closing.
Rob takes the first call personally.
General information only, not legal advice. Representative matters include transactions led by Robert Mason at Mason Law and at previous firms.