Mayer Brown held a capital solutions session on the landscape of U.S. government equity and equity-linked investments in the Critical Minerals sector.
We discussed:
- The policy shift that has led to a surge in U.S government equity investments in the critical minerals sectors, including key transactions
- The logic of using equity and equity-linked instruments in lieu of debt
- The toolkit, including direct equity, warrants, convertible preferred equity and convertible notes
- Governance rights and economics during the life of the investment
- Planned exit mechanisms
