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John SM Turner

John SM Turner
Office:
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
333 Bay Street, Suite 2400
Bay Adelaide Centre, Box 20
City:
Toronto
State:
Ontario
Country:
Canada
Tel:
+1 416 865 4380
Fax:
+1 416 364 7813

Biography: Mining

John Turner is a partner of Fasken Martineau and leader of its global mining group. Fasken Martineau is the leading law firm for mining expertise according to this publication and five of its partners are listed here as experts in mining law. It is the only law firm globally with leading mining practitioners located in each of the key mining finance centres of Toronto, London, Johannesburg, Vancouver and Quebec.

John has been primarily involved in negotiating international mergers and acquisitions and cross-border public offerings in the resources sector. One of Canada's leading newspapers, the Financial Post, described John as 'one of the best dirt lawyers in Canada, if not the world.'

In addition to advising on several recent high profile M&A transactions in the mining sector, John has also acted for the issuer or the underwriters in respect of public offerings, private placements or re-domicilings by mining or exploration companies with projects in Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea, India, Kazakhstan, Kurdistan, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Romania, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania and Zambia.

This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Mining Lawyers which can be purchased from our Bookstore.

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