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Yong-Jae Kim is an associate in Gowlings’ Vancouver office. His practice focuses on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, share and asset acquisitions, and takeover bids in the mining industry.
Yong-Jae has advised boards of directors, independent committees of boards of directors, and dissident shareholders on acquisitions, proxy battles and other strategic matters for both reporting issuers and private companies. His clients include public companies, governments and public agencies.
Having significant international experience, Yong-Jae has advised on a number of international transactions involving clients based in South Korea.
He is fluent in Korean. 
- Represent Hathor Exploration Limited in response to an unsolicited takeover proposal from Cameco Corporation and the successful takeover from Rio Tinto plc (aggregate value of transaction: C$654 million).
- Represent Hathor Exploration Limited with the merger by statutory plan of arrangement with Terra Ventures Inc.
- Represent Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. with two separate short form prospectus offerings for C$123.5 million and sale of its 100% owned Hackett River property in Nunavut, Canada to Xstrata Canada Corporation (aggregate value of transaction: C$50 million).
- Represent Silver Quest Resources Ltd. in a successful plan of arrangement and spin-out transaction with New Gold Inc.
- Represent Candente Copper Corp. in a spin-out of its Peruvian properties by way of a statutory plan of amalgamation and with a bought deal financing for C$26.9 million.
- Represent Rokmaster Resources Inc. in connection with its IPO and listing of its common shares on the TSXV.
- Represent a consortium of Korean investors in its joint venture investment in a lithium carbonate project in Argentina with Lithium One Inc.
- Represent a consortium of Korean investors in a proposed royalty deal and concurrent equity investment with a TSX listed public company involving coal assets in North America.
- Represent a consortium of Korean investors in a proposed acquisition of a 20% joint venture interest in an iron concentrate project in Quebec with a TSX listed public company (aggregate value of transaction: US$240 million).
- Represent a consortium of Korean investors in its acquisition of a 30% interest in a copper mining project in Mexico with Baja Mining Corp (aggregate value of transaction: US$470 million).
- Represent Corvus Gold Inc. with a private placement equity financing for C$7 million.
- Represent Paramount Gold and Silver Corporation in its acquisition of X-Cal Resources Ltd. in an all stock deal worth C$31 million.
- Acted for a special committee of a TSX listed mining company formed in response to an unsolicited takeover proposal.
- Represented a consortium of Korean companies on its strategic investment in supply of base and precious metals in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Southeast Asia.
- Successfully defended a petition challenging the approval of a business combination and alleging oppressive conduct.
- Successfully represented dissident shareholders in a contested plan of arrangement proceeding before the BC Court of Appeal.
- Co-author of "Bingham v. Ashton Mining of Canada Inc. - Septt's Gourmet Revisted", Corporate Litigation, Volume VIII, 2007.
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