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Work Department

Environment and Natural Resources; Securities and Corporate Finance; Energy; and Mining

Position

Partner

Career

Brian Abraham is the Canadian chair of the Dentons mining practice group. His practice involves all phases of mining from exploration, development and production through to reclamation. He provides advice on all forms of title reviews, options, leases, purchase and joint-venture agreements during the early phases of mineral exploration and permitting. He also advises on socioeconomic, engineering, consulting, construction, operator, equity and debt financing, smelter, processing agreements, and reclamation agreements.

Within his practice area, Brian acts domestically and internationally for junior, mid-sized and major explorers, developers and producers as well as engineering, mining and geological consultants, individuals, prospectors, organizations, syndicates and financiers (debt and equity) in private and public financing. He has also participated in background studies for mineral legislation in British Columbia and other Canadian jurisdictions and has advised foreign governments regarding the preparation and implementation of mining legislation. Brian advises clients and prepares opinions on complex legal mineral titles issues in B.C. as well as litigation involving title matters, right-to-mine, valuation, expropriation matters and aboriginal issues.

He has acted for clients involved in transactions in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Brian has also acted for clients in energy-related projects in Canada, the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America with particular emphasis on coalbed methane projects. As part of the Dentons Mining Group, he also addresses taxation, regulatory, employment, transportation, construction, securities and corporate matters in relation to mining.

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Languages

English

Memberships

Partner of Dentons LLP since 2002, and prior to that, a partner in another national law firm since 1985
Director of Mining Association of British Columbia
Director of Aboriginal Mine Training Association
Chaired and participated as a speaker in many conferences nationwide and internationally on the subject of mining and energy law
Member of Mineral Tenure Advisory Committee to Ministry of Energy and Mines for British Columbia
Presently a member of a number of committees established to advise the mining industry regarding government and related issues
Member of Industry/Government Committee on Regulations under the Mining Rights Amendment Act of 1998
Chair of B.C.’s mining industry response to OSC/TSE Mining Standards Task Force Report (1998) and National Instrument 43-101 Proposal
Past Provincial Chair (B.C. branch) of Canadian Bar Association Natural Resources and Energy Subsection
Past National Chair of Canadian Bar Association Committee on Natural Resources and Energy Section
Member of Securities Committee and Lands Regulation, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
Member of Canadian Securities Administrators Mining Technical Advisory and Monitoring Committee (NI 43-101 Committee)
Member of Committee Respecting Species at Risk Federal Legislation for the Mining Association of Canada
Past member of Provincial Council of Canadian Bar Association (B.C.)
Past member of National Council of Canadian Bar Association (National)
Past Adjunct Professor of Mining Law at the University of British Columbia
Thesis Advisor to the first student to receive a Ph.D in Mineral Economics in the Mineral Processing Department of the Engineering Faculty (UBC)

Education

University of British Columbia, 1970, LLB
University of British Columbia, 1967, B.Sc. Geology
P.Geo, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C., 1993

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