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Higgins, Charles L.K., Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Toronto - (416) 865-4392 - chiggins@fasken.com
Chuck Higgins provides counsel on commercial and financial matters to a number of national and inter-
national mining and energy companies and investment dealers. He has considerable experience with joint
ventures, acquisitions and capital and debt transactions involving resource businesses. Higgins also worked
for the Federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources as a Senior Economist. He is the past chair, from
1993 to 1995, of the Natural Resources and Energy Section of the Canadian Bar Association and he has been
recognized for his expertise in numerous legal directories. Higgins was called to the Alberta Bar in 1983 and
the Ontario Bar in 1987.
Heersche, Tanneke B., Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Toronto – (416) 366-8381 - theersche@fasken.com
Tanneke Heersche is a partner at Fasken Martineau in Johannesburg, with a particular focus on the natural
resources sector. She has extensive experience in the mining and metals industry with an emphasis on all as-
pects of the development and financing of mining and other natural resource projects in emerging markets.
Heersche is highly regarded for her expertise and experience in the mining industry, where she is recognized
as a leading legal advisor. She regularly advises major international mining companies, international financial
institutions and governments in numerous countries around the world, with a particular emphasis on African
jurisdictions. Heersche's practice also encompasses advising and representing clients on significant cross-bor-
der investments and investment protections in the natural resources and other sectors in numerous African
jurisdictions. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1993.
Torrey, John W., Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Toronto - (416) 865-4394 - jtorrey@fasken.com
John Torrey's practice involves the structuring, documentation and negotiation of complex lending trans-
actions. He acts regularly for both lenders and borrowers in bilateral and syndicated, secured and unsecured
financings, most of which are multi-currency and multijurisdictional in nature. Torrey has particular expertise
in acquisition and project financings and all aspects of mine financing and considerable experience with debt
restructurings. Recent significant experience includes the financing of the C$5.8-billion acquisition of Safe-
way by Sobeys, the $2.5-billion financing of Silver Wheaton and the $2.5 billion financing of Kinross Gold.
He is repeatedly recommended by the world's leading legal publications, including Chambers Global, e Best
Lawyers in Canada, the Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers, e Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide
to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory. He has been named a
"Leading Individual" for Banking and Finance by Legal 500 Canada 2014 and "Banking Lawyer of the Year"
for 2010 by e Best Lawyers in Canada.
Turner, John S.M., Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Toronto - (416) 865-4380 - jturner@fasken.com
John Turner is the leader of Fasken Martineau's Global Mining Group. One of Canada's leading newspapers
described him as "one of the best dirt lawyers in Canada, if not the world." He has been involved in leading
M&A and corporate finance transactions in the resources sector, including First Quantum's C$1.44-billion
share offering, AuRico Gold's $1.5-billion merger with Alamos Gold, IAMGOLD's $530-million sale of its
Niobec Mines, Primero Mining's $75-million convertible debenture offering, Oryx Petroleum's C$224-mil-
lion share offering, and Addax Petroleum's C$9 billion sale to Sinopec. His clients include issuers or the
underwriters in capital markets or M&A transactions involving resources companies active throughout Afri-
ca, Latin America and Europe. He has successfully acted for the financial arranger or sponsor of several global
major resources projects. Turner is consistently recognized in leading legal publications as a leading lawyer for
mining, energy and natural resources law. He is a recipient of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal. Turner was
called to the Ontario Bar in 1989.
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