Shearman & Sterling and top Australian firm Gilbert + Tobin are advising Australian mining company Sundance Resources on its agreement with the government of Cameroon to move forward with the so-called Mbalam iron ore project that straddles the country’s border with the Republic of the Congo.
Announced late last month, the agreement comes a little more than two years after six members of Sundance’s board of directors, including prominent mining lawyer John Carr-Gregg, were killed when the charter plane carrying them to the remote Mbalam region crashed in the Congo’s dense jungle in June 2010.
