Mining

PPO has extensive experience counseling local and foreign clients in all stages of their mining businesses and ventures in Bolivia, from obtaining their mining rights, exploration and development to operation and closure.

Additionally, our team advises on the processes of sale, acquisition and consolidation of mining rights. PPO also advises its clients in their interaction with local authorities, including compliance with mining laws and regulations and the conclusion of administrative agreements and mining production agreements with state entities, such as the Corporación Minera de Bolivia (COMIBOL).

• Counseling on the request for obtaining and consolidating rights over mining assets.
• Counseling on administrative and regulatory law.
• Development of legal audits on companies with mining rights.
• Drafting and strategic legal advice in the negotiation of purchase and sale agreements for mining companies, shared risk agreements, service provision agreements for mining companies and others involving the industry.
• Counseling from multiple practices on matters that affect the
• mining operations, including labor, tax, intellectual property, antitrust and regulatory advice.
• Counseling on local and international financing for the purchase of mining assets.

Issuance of legal opinions in accordance with the laws of Bolivia.