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Denis G. Silva

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About

Denis G. Silva focuses his practice on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions and has extensive ‎experience advising public and private clients in the mining, technology and financial sectors on a full ‎range of business law matters.‎

Denis regularly assists companies and dealers on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, ‎reorganizations, options and joint ventures, proxy contests, and exchange listings. He is also experienced ‎in a broad spectrum of securities products, including equity and debt securities, and has worked on ‎numerous financing transactions.‎ Denis has been recognized in Lexpert as a leading lawyer in mining, cannabis and corporate mergers & acquisitions.

Notable experience:

  • Adventus Mining on its construction financing for the Curipamba copper project for US$260 million ‎
  • PODA Holdings on its multiparty sale of intellectual property assets to Altria Group for US$100 million
  • Metalla Royalty & Streaming on its US$50 million At-The-Market Equity ‎Program
  • Nova Royalty on its public listing on the TSX Venture Exchange and various equity and debt financings ‎‎for $200 million to fund royalty acquisitions in North America and South America
  • FansUnite Entertainment on its US$58 million acquisition of American Affiliate ‎
  • Draganfly on its Nasdaq listing and US$20 million US prospectus offering
  • Neptune Digital Assets on its $40 million institutional investment
  • Brixton Metals on US$44.5 million joint venture agreement on Hog Heaven ‎copper-silver-gold project‎
  • Needham, Canaccord Genuity and Raymond James on a US$69 million public offering of common ‎‎shares of ‎Absolute Software and concurrent initial listing on the Nasdaq
  • Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. in connection with a USD$23 million secondary offering of ‎common ‎‎shares by Coeur Mining, Inc. ‎‎

In addition to traditional legal advice and services, Denis provides value for his clients by leveraging his ‎network to facilitate introductions, originate deals and generate revenue for his clients and referral sources.

Bar admissionsBritish Columbia, 2009

EXPERIENCE

  • PODA Holdings on its multiparty sale of intellectual property assets to Altria Group for US$100 million
  • Adventus Mining on its construction financing for the Curipamba copper project for US$260 million
  • Metalla Royalty & Streaming on its US$50 million At-The-Market Equity ‎Program
  • Nova Royalty on its public listing on the TSX Venture Exchange and various equity and debt financings ‎‎for $200 million to fund royalty acquisitions in North America and South America
  • American Copper Development Corporation on its acquisition of mining assets from Waterton Precious ‎‎Metals and Hudbay Minerals Inc. ‎
  • Valhalla Mining on its strategic investment by Marubeni Corporation and acquisition of assets from ‎‎Valhalla Metals
  • FansUnite Entertainment on its US$58 million acquisition of American Affiliate ‎
  • Draganfly on its Nasdaq listing and US$20 million US prospectus offering
  • Neptune Digital Assets on its $40 million institutional investment
  • FPX Nickel Corp. on its ‎$16.1 million bought deal public offering‎
  • Brixton Metals on USD$44.5 million joint venture agreement on Hog Heaven ‎copper-silver-gold project‎
  • Nova Royalty on $25 million at-the-market equity program
  • FansUnite Entertainment in $27 million prospectus offering
  • Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. in its acquisition of a portfolio of royalty assets from Alamos Gold ‎Inc.‎
  • Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. in connection with a $35 million convertible loan facility with Beedie ‎Capital to fund acquisitions of new royalties and streams
  • Draganfly Inc. in connection with a recapitalization, reverse takeover transaction and listing on the ‎Canadian Securities Exchange
  • Adventus Mining Corporation in connection with a bought deal placement of common shares
  • Wikileaf Technologies Inc. with respect to its reverse takeover transaction, private placement and listing on the Canadian Securities Exchange
  • Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. in its acquisition of a net smelter royalty on St. Barbara Limited's Fifteen Mile Stream project in Nova Scotia
  • Brixton Metals Corporation with respect to its private placement of securities, including a strategic investment by Eric Sprott
  • Adventus Mining Corporation with respect to its private placement of common shares, led by Unionar S.A., a subsidiary of Consorcio Nobis S.A., one of Ecuador’s largest private business conglomerates
  • Nova Royalty Corp. in its acquisition of a portfolio of royalties from Pacific Empire Minerals Corp.
  • Neptune Dash Technologies Corp in connection with its private placement and listing on the TSX Venture Exchange
  • Nova Royalty Corp. in its acquisition of a net smelter return royalty on the Dumont Nickel-Cobalt project
  • Maverix Metals Inc. in its acquisition of a net smelter return royalty on the Silvertip Mine
  • Underwriters in connection with various private placements and public offerings of securities
Languages
  • English
  • Portuguese
Education
  • LLB, University of British Columbia, ‎‎2008‎
  • MPA, Queen's University, 2004‎
  • BA, University of British Columbia, ‎‎2002‎

Awards

  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Corporate Mid-Market), 2019-2021, 2023; (Mining) 2023
  • Lexpert Special Edition Mining, 2020‎
  • Lexpert Special Edition Agribusiness and Cannabis, 2020‎
  • The Legal 500 Canada (Cannabis) 2022-2023; (Technology) 2022-2023; (Corporate M&A) 2022-2023

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Law Society of British Columbia

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