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The news comes amid increasing interest in applications of blockchain tech in supply chains, with companies including BHP Billiton, Foxconn, Microsoft and IBM recently revealing initiatives.

In 2017, we won «International Law Firm of the Year» at the African Legal Awards, and also retained our title as «Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Team of the Year» for our work on BHP Billiton's first - of - its - kind Forests Bond.

Notable mandates: One of two negotiators for 50 Catholic entities parties to the Indian Residential School Settlement Class Action; lead counsel for Athabasca Potash Inc. during its IPO, and local counsel during its subsequent acquisition by BHP Billiton Canada Inc.; acted for Input Capital in a one - of - a-kind private placement of shares offering used to fund canola streaming contracts for farmers seeking capital; assisted Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP in the acquisition by the Great - West Life Insurance Co. of several shopping centres across Canada; involved in development of, and represents, Canadian Light Source Inc., the country's only national synchrotron research facility.

In Canada, where the resource sector accounts for more than half of total M&A activity, there are also political implications for acquisitions of large Canadian companies following the failed bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. by Australian company BHP Billiton Ltd., the panel noted.

Vidisha Joshi, managing partner at London law firm Hodge Jones & Allen has won this year's Asian Women of Achievement Awards in the professions category, sharing the award with Vandita Pant, group treasurer of BHP Billiton.

In 2015, the top FCPA settlement was by BHP Billiton.

BHP Billiton and Petrohawk Energy Corporation («Petrohawk») announced late yesterday that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement for BHP Billiton to acquire Petrohawk for $ 38.75 per share by means of an all - cash tender offer for all of the issued and outstanding shares of Petrohawk, representing a total equity value of approximately $ 12.1 billion and a total enterprise value of approximately $ 15.1 billion, including the assumption of net debt (more...)

The firm is representing Petrohawk Energy Corporation in connection with its acquisition by BHP Billiton in a transaction valued at approximately $ 15.1 billion.

Mr. Feldman's clients have included companies such as Amgen, T - Mobile and BHP Billiton, as well as high - profile individuals such as Alec Baldwin and Bill Koch.

The substance's rising value has been as a major catalyst for corporate work; BHP Billiton spent $ 350 million in its ill - fated $ 40 billion bid for the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan that ended last month; and some large law firms have recently expanded into the sleepy Canadian province to get closer to the product.

The decision by the Conservative government to nix BHP Billiton Ltd.'s $ 38 - billion acquisition of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. effectively neuters shareholder rights in this country and handcuffs lawyers from rendering any meaningful advice under the Investment Canada Act.

Successfully represented BHP Billiton and DEA Deutsche Erdoel to secure working interests in Pemex's first - ever deep water and onshore farmouts.

He has worked for many blue chip companies, including IBM Australia, Foster's Brewing Group, BHP Billiton and Deloitte Consulting.

Morgan Lewis served as co-counsel to BHP Billiton, along with Sullivan & Cromwell.

It also advised Petrohawk Energy on its $ 12.1 billion acquisition by BHP Billiton in July.

High - profile business leaders to sign the letter include president of Airbus Group UK, Paul Kahn; chairman of Alcoa, Klaus Kleinfeld; CEO, Babcock International Group, Peter Rogers; chairman of BAE Systems, Sir Roger Carr; chief executive of Balfour Beatty, Leo Quinn; EMEA president of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Alex Wilmot - Sitwell; chairman of Barclays, John McFarlane; chief executive of Barratt Homes, David Thomas; CEO of BHP Billiton, Andrew Mackenzie; BMW board member Ian Robertson; chairman of BT Group Sir Mike Rake and Burberry CEO Christopher Bailey.

The deal — the first of its kind — is structured in such a way that if investors choose to receive coupon payments in cash, then BHP Billiton guarantees to purchase the carbon credits.

Baker McKenzie triumphed in the Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Team of the Year category for advising BHP Billiton and the International Finance Corporation on the issuance of a bond designed to protect forests by giving investors the option of being repaid in carbon credits or cash.

At Bowman Gilfillan, his clients have included the state - owned Airports Company South Africa, the city of Johannesburg, Anglo - Australian mining giant BHP Billiton and Xstrata Coal (now part of Glencore).

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has been appointed by BHP Billiton, Samarco and Vale to lead an external investigation into the recent Brazilian dam disaster which killed 17 people.

Charlie Welsh, mergermarket's editor - in - chief, says rankings were heavily influenced by whether a firm advised one of the parties involved on BHP Billiton's $ 211bn bid for Rio Tinto, but says many law firms are feeling the effect of the credit crunch.

Faberge is majority owned by former BHP Billiton CEO Brian Gibertson's investment company Pallinghurst Resources, which acquired the company in 2007.

BHP Billiton is set to launch a review of its global legal panel, which could lead to the mining giant working with fewer firms.

At least two dozen members have departed ACCCE since 2008, such as BHP Billiton, Consol Energy, Consumers Energy, Detroit Edison, Duke Energy, and First Energy.

Shell also launched an Energy Transitions Commission involving BHP Billiton, Statoil and others, seeking to «identify pathways for change in our energy systems to ensure both better growth and a better climate.»

Vale, BHP Billiton and Sumitomo ranked best, with Glencore, First Quantum Minerals and Vedanta Resources at the bottom of the heap.

Fifty are investor - owned companies such as Chevron, Peabody, Shell, and BHP Billiton.

Severstal, the Russian mining giant, leads the list of coal companies, followed by firms like BHP Billiton and Peabody.

In a statement issued Wednesday, 14 corporations that include oil leader Royal Dutch Shell, coal miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, cement maker LafargeHolcim, and technology giants HP and Intel pushed for the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris, France, this December, where almost 200 nations will agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change.

CSIRO is one of 19 research and funding partners within the CRC — other participants include BHP Billiton, Wesfarmers Coal, Xstrata Coal and Rio Tinto.

Witness how BHP Billiton had an obviously pro-global warming position prior to the 2015 Paris Climate Accord conference, yet enviro - activists called one of BHP's conference attendees a corporate criminal.

Ecos was a ground breaking consultancy working with the CEOs and executives of some of the world's largest corporations, including DuPont, Ford Motor Company, BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Diageo as well as leading Australian companies such ANZ Bank, Insurance Australia Group and TRU Energy.

Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group (NCIG), partly owned by BHP Billiton Ltd., completed financing for a A$ 900 million ($ 824 million) expansion of a coal terminal at the port in Australia's New South Wales state.

In the US this has reached a crescendo, with big fossil fuel companies (and Australia's BHP Billiton) falling over themselves to become part of the new oil rush.

In the mining sector, BHP Billiton is looking to leave the Minerals Council of Australia due to «material differences» on climate change.

Recently, BHP Billiton said it was preparing to quit the World Coal Association over a stance on climate change the mining giant regarded as less than constructive.

And the victims of that kind of economic insanity are not limited to companies like BHP Billiton.

Yesterday Mr Koutsantonis told parliament he had met major companies, including Arrium, Nyrstar, BHP Billiton and Adelaide Brighton Cement, about their intentions to buy generators to guard against blackouts.

It would also have significant profit impacts on current operations for Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.

A November 2007 presentation to investment analysts by the President of BHP Billiton Coal, Dave Murray, noted that Drummond had an 5 % share of the global coal export trade, making it the equal fifth largest coal exporter in the world.

Australia's enviable prosperity isn't due to sunshine and glinting solar panels or windmills flailing in the breeze, it's down to iron ore, coal and a bevy of other minerals including copper and uranium of the kind being gouged out of the ground by BHP Billiton at Roxby Downs in South Australia's North (see above).

So now Rio and BHP Billiton have joined the lengthening line of companies asking for a carbon price, such as electricity retailer AGL and technology company Siemens which were co-signatories of an open letter earlier this year.

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Australia's enviable prosperity isn't due to sunshine and breezes, it's down to iron ore, coal and a bevy of other minerals including copper and uranium of the kind being gouged out of the ground by BHP Billiton at Roxby Downs in South Australia's North (see above).

But last year the Gates Foundation invested at least $ 1 billion of its holdings in 35 of the top 200 carbon reserve companies, while the Wellcome Trust invested $ 834 million in fuel - industry mainstays Shell, BP, Schlumberger, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.

But BHP Billiton isn't the only gigantonormously - really - quite - big mining company to have laid their carbon cards on the table in recent weeks.

In Australia, leading companies include BHP Billiton (the world's largest mining company), Peabody, and Xstrata.

His work is represented in the collections of Iziko South African National Gallery, BHP Billiton, and Nandos UK, amongst others.

He has exhibited extensively both internationally and in South Africa, and his work forms part of several major collections, including the Gordon Schachat Collection, Standard Bank Collection, BHP Billiton, Durban Art Gallery and the Guggenheim Museum New York.

Day 2 Meekatharra to Newman BD Join a guided tour of Mt Whaleback iron ore mine, the largest of BHP Billiton's mining operations and one of the largest open cut ore mines in the world.