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Latham & Watkins Advises Kinterra Capital Corp. in Completed Acquisition of Nevada Copper’s Open Pit and Underground Copper Projects
October 9, 2024
Multidisciplinary team represents the investment firm in the acquisition of substantially all assets of the mining company.
Kinterra Capital Corp., a private equity firm specializing in developing the critical materials and strategic infrastructure necessary for the global energy transition, has announced that its affiliate, Southwest Critical Materials LLC, has successfully acquired the Pumpkin Hollow Copper Project from Nevada Copper, Inc. With this acquisition, Kinterra now controls more than 11 billion pounds of copper across its portfolio of projects in the United States.
Latham & Watkins LLP represented Kinterra Capital Corp. in the transaction with a corporate team and restructuring team led by New York partners Gianluca Bacchiocchi, Adam Goldberg, and Daniel Mun, New York/Houston partner Charles Carpenter, and New York counsel Ben Kaplan, with associates Brian Rosen, Lachlan Sievert, Sally Wu, and Jennifer Danilenko. Advice was also provided on tax matters by Chicago partner Joseph Kronsnoble and New York partner Gregory Hannibal, with associates Derek Gumm and Michael Syku; on compensation and benefits matters by New York counsel Rifka Singer and Chicago counsel Leah Segall, with associate Ellie Graham; on antitrust matters by New York partner Katherine Rocco and Bay Area counsel Jason Daniels, with associate Charlie Sprague; on labor and employment matters by Chicago partner Nineveh Alkhas and New York counsel Sandra Benjamin, with associate Sahar Merchant; on foreign direct investment matters by Frankfurt partner Max Hauser and Hamburg partner Jana Dammann de Chapto, with associate Helena Hofmann; and on investment funds by New York partners Andrea Schwartzman and Oliver Prakash-Jenkins, with associate Catherine Willis.