Your peace of mind is at the front of ours
At Hardies Lawyers, we support founders, boards, and senior executives with practical, real-world solutions across the entire project life-cycle.
Whether you're scaling up a new venture or raising capital for your next drilling program, we offer practical advice and agile execution to help give you a bigger piece of that elusive pie called 'peace of mind'.
Capital Raising
Advance your pre-revenue mining projects with strategic capital
We help junior explorers secure equity and debt capital to advance pre-revenue exploration projects. From seed rounds to IPOs and secondary raisings, we provide practical, end-to-end legal support tailored to fast-moving exploration companies.
How we can help you
- Seed capital, pre-IPO offerings, and recapitalisations
- Negotiating mandates and terms sheets
- IPOs and backdoor listings/ reverse takeovers
- Rights issues, placements, and convertible notes
- Offer documentation and due diligence
- Subscription deeds and underwriting agreements
- Performance rights and option plans
- Related party transactions and shareholder approvals
- Drafting notice of meeting documents
- Share buy-backs, capital reductions, and share splits
Project Development
Develop your mining projects from discovery to production
We partner with junior exploration and mining companies to secure tenure, de-risk project assets, and build a bankable pathway to commercial production.
What we can help with:
- Title searches and tenement due diligence
- Negotiating asset purchase agreements
- Land access and compensation agreements
- Mining law advice and regulatory approvals
- Mineral tenement and tenure reports
- Mining services and drilling contracts
- Farm-in/ farm-out arrangements
- Joint ventures and joint operating agreements
- Mineral off-take and royalty agreements
- Project finance and construction agreements
ASX Compliance
Seamless ASX compliance and corporate governance solutions
We simplify the complexities of ASX Listing Rules and corporate governance, ensuring ongoing compliance, risk mitigation, and clear market communication for listed companies.
How we can help you
- Real-time advice on continuous disclosure
- Reviewing ASX announcements
- Periodic reporting and JORC compliance
- Managing ASX price queries and aware letters
- Trading halts, suspensions, and removal
- Advice on ASX Corporate Governance Principles
- Directors' duties, responsibilities, and conflicts
- Appointment and removal of directors
- Board reporting frameworks and policies
- Company secretarial support