Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has advised Japanese mineral producer JX Nippon Mining & Metals on the $950-million sale of its 51 percent stake in the Caserones copper-molybdenum mine in Chile to Canadian miner Lundin Mining, which was counseled by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
The sale is part of JX’s asset portfolio review as it focuses on advanced materials, Reuters reported.
The Skadden team was led by partners Mitsuhiro Kamiya, Louis Artime, Ken Kumayama, Joe Yaffe, Anne Villanueva, Nathan Giesselman, and Andrew Foster.
The Paul, Weiss team was led by partners Ian Hazlett, Adam Givertz, Matthew Jordan, and Andrew Gordon.