Cox Yeats are specialists in all areas of natural resources and in the energy sector, particularly the renewable energy sector. Cox Yeats offers the mining industry a diverse caliber of lawyers with strong industry experience throughout the natural resource sector and its attorneys are seasoned experts and are well-versed in representing clients in the sugar, crop farming and timber industries. Cox Yeats provides counsel on:

• Structuring of mining companies so as to comply with the mining charter
• Transfer and conversion of mining rights
• Application for prospecting and mining rights
• Grant of surface rights
• Radiation
• Acquisition and protection of water rights
• Community claims to mineral rights and restitution
• The structure of the sugar, timber and crop farming industries
• Legal requirements for dams and irrigation schemes
• Licensing of genetic material
• Sale and purchase of crops and livestock
• Land claims and land tenure