She served as the firm’s deputy managing partner and chair
Lawson Lundell has named global mining group co-lead Karen MacMillan as its new managing partner following a stint as deputy managing partner and chair.
She is a homegrown talent at the firm, having worked with Lawson Lundell since 1997 as a summer student. She was also appointed the firm’s inaugural chief inclusiveness officer, spearheading the firm’s diversity and inclusiveness initiatives and overseeing the development, implementation, and quantification of improvement programs.
MacMillan’s practice has focused on corporate/commercial, mining, and energy law, particularly commercial arrangements in the mining and energy sectors. She has worked on asset-level acquisitions and dispositions, earn-in, option and joint venture agreements, royalty agreements, procurement, construction, and engineering agreements.
She has also advised on the ownership and development of major power generation projects, power purchase and sale agreements, and renewable energy transactions. She has guided clients on share and asset acquisitions and divestitures, licensing arrangements, corporate and contractual joint ventures, and debt and equity financings. She has worked with clients across a variety of sectors, including mining, energy, forestry, pulp and paper, financial services, consumer products manufacturing and distribution, recreation and resorts, transportation, and education.
Lexpert has ranked MacMillan as a consistently recommended lawyer in mining law. She worked with Newmont Corporation on its joint venture integration of the Alumbrera mine, plant and infrastructure with Yamana Gold’s Agua Rica project, which birthed the integrated MARA project. She also assisted Newmont with its $2.3 billion acquisition of Fronteer Gold Inc.
She guided Barrick Gold on an agreement to divest its entire interest in the Lagunas Norte mine in Peru to Boroo Pte Ltd. Moreover, she advised Anvil Mining Limited on its $1.3 billion friendly sale to Minmetals Resources Limited.
MacMillan said that she had no immediate plans to implement dramatic changes as managing partner but that her focus was on cultivating internal connections. She will continue to co-lead the global mining group at Lawson Lundell.
