Electricity | Renewable Energy

Mining and Refining

Mr. Cairns’ expertise in mining and refining stems from almost 15 years as a lawyer and business manager with Teck Cominco in Trail, Toronto, and Vancouver.  His focus is from mine to market and includes such areas as transportation & international distribution, refining & tolling, research & development, environmental compliance, marketing & sales, trading, derivatives & currency, as well as risk management and credit.  In addition to attending to the usual variety of commercial law issues common to companies, specific areas of his mining and refining expertise include:

• Refining and tolling agreements
• Concentrate sales agreements
• Transportation of raw materials
• Procurement of services and supplies
• Construction contracts
• Financing and credit agreements
• Natural gas supply contracts
• Water licensing
• Export licensing
• Land use and real estate
• Environmental compliance
• Commodity trading/risk management
• Hedging and swap agreements
• Sales contracts
• Importing and export
• Customer service agreements
• International distribution
• New business development and joint ventures