Matthew Roberts is a partner in DLA Piper's Energy and Natural Resources practice, where he leads complex mandates across the mining sector. He is recognised for his ability to guide clients through the full life cycle of major projects – from securing tenure and navigating regulatory frameworks, to structuring commercial arrangements that optimise risk allocation and protect long-term value.
Matt provides strategic counsel to major and mid-cap mining companies, debt and equity funders, and sovereign governments. His practice spans the negotiation of joint ventures, farm-in arrangements, land access and compensation agreements, tenement and share acquisitions, mining subleases, split commodity agreements, and royalty arrangements. He brings a commercially rigorous approach to each engagement, helping clients design project structures that balance competing stakeholder interests including those of government agencies, regulators, native title parties, and other land users. Matt also advises on mergers and acquisitions, project finance, and asset-level due diligence in the mining and energy sectors.
He has extensive international experience advising on the development of mining projects across Africa, Latin America, and Canada, and is recognised for his ability to navigate the distinct legal, political, and stakeholder complexities that characterise cross-border resource projects, and is in a select group of practitioners globally who are engaged by sovereign governments to draft national mining legislation and regulatory frameworks.
