Natural Resources & Energy
We serve as outside general counsel to numerous natural resource-based companies including mining and metal companies, hydrogeology companies, and water resource companies.
As such, we understand natural resource-based operations from a legal as well as a business perspective and focus on crafting long-lasting solutions to the challenges our clients face.
The ability for an energy or natural resource-based project to operate within and fully leverage existing regulatory frameworks is critical for its success. The following is a brief highlight of selected ‘first-ever’ regulatory approvals and associated beneficial reuse permits Bruff Kentish attorneys have acquired with respect to brine fluid water treatment, resource recovery and related beneficial reuse.
- Land Use
- Water, Minerals, & Oil & Gas
- Waste-to-Asset Treatment & Beneficial Reuse
- Technology Deployment – Water and Brine Concentrate Treatment
- Regulatory Permitting & Compliance
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Selected highlights
Structured and drafted US$90M convertible note, redemption, and conversion agreement for recapitalization of global resource company.
Advised water resource company on non-tributary water right acquisitions and related beneficial reuse applications.
Led Australian global resource company on its preliminary due diligence investigation related to purchase of lithium assets and related leases in Argentina.
Advised on strategic joint-venture for two $10M green-field built centralized brine water treatment facilities (negotiated joint-venture subsidiary legal structures and agreements, acquired all regulatory permits for facilities including water discharge, air emission and site permits, served on boards of directors of each SPV subsidiary).
Acquisition of numerous ‘first-ever’ regulatory approvals and associated beneficial reuse permits with respect to resource recovery, brine and concentrate fluid treatment, and related beneficial reuse.
Led intellectual property negotiation and drafting of worldwide technology master license for all fields of use (FOU’s) for recently patented water treatment technology from 1st tier university.
Innovatively solved $3M wastewater treatment plant/leachate field replacement requirement by negotiating and permitting a 99-year ground lease for beneficial reuse/surface discharge of treated wastewater for agricultural (orchard irrigation).
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