Mining & Resources

Corporate advisors, Asia and Australia.

AFG Venture Group's Mining & Resources division brings a wide knowledge of Australian and Southeast Asian resources, and the companies working in this space.

Our Group specialises in M&A and corporate advisory activities in the sector including:

  • Mergers
  • Acquisitions
  • Divestments
  • Equity raisings
  • Advice on restructures, path to market and implementation

Our Group has extensive experience in raising capital for mid market mining companies, as well as IPO's, investor relations, project development and corporate strategy with listed and unlisted emerging companies.

In addition to numerous sale mandates and capital raisings for the Australian mining sector, AFG Venture Group Australia, India and Indonesia are currently working with investors from India and China in particular in relation to likely investments into the Australian and Indonesian resource sectors. We are also working iwth a number of companies interested in gaining access to resource rich Myanmar.

 

Latest Mining & Resources News

Aug 22 2013 — COW Renegotiations – The Current Position and the Likely End Game by Bill Sullivan of Christian Teo Purwono & Partners

Jun 18 2013 — Myanmar mining sector: policy issues

May 15 2013 — Mining Industry Regulation in Indonesia – Domestic Processing & Refining – The Emperor has no Clothes

Apr 24 2013 — Is it time to pursue mining opportunities in Myanmar?

Apr 10 2013 — Indonesian Energy & Mining Sectors – Export Ban Revisited

 

Key Specialists


Professor Peter Church OAM - Chairman

Peter Church is an international lawyer and corporate adviser who has lived and worked in the South East Asian region for more than 35 years and is based in Singapore. Peter advises a varied group of major international companies in relation to their Asian investment and trading activities. He was for many years President of the Australia Indonesia Business Council and sat on numerous Australian Federal Government Boards, such as the Trade Policy Advisory Committee. [more...]

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Professor Peter Church OAM - Chairman

Peter Church is an international lawyer and corporate adviser who has lived and worked in the South East Asian region for more than 35 years and is based in Singapore. Peter advises a varied group of major international companies in relation to their Asian investment and trading activities. He was for many years President of the Australia Indonesia Business Council and sat on numerous Australian Federal Government Boards, such as the Trade Policy Advisory Committee. His primary roles are chairing AFG Venture Group and acting as Special Counsel to the leading English law firm of Stephenson Harwood. [more...]


Erwin Budiharto - International Specialist Advisor

Erwin Budiharto has extensive investment banking experience in a wide range of industries including time with Merril Lynch in the US but his principal area of expertise and interest for a number of years has been the Indonesian mining and resources sector (with a recent focus on iron ore, coal and manganese). Presently he is the Founder and Ceo of PT Windu Bentalanusa - an Iron Ore mining in Flores NTB,Indonesia as well as Coal mining/export from Kalimantan, Indonesia. In the past he has been the CFO of Setdco Oil and Gas Company, Financial Controller for P.T. Swakarya Sinarjaya and Business Development Director for PT. Surya Semesta Internusa and the export Director of a publicly listed company PT Ades Mineral Water Tbk. [more...]


Choo Lye Heng - International Specialist Advisor

Choo Lye Heng has over 30 years experience in banking and corporate finance, and has been extensively involved in fund-raising transactions (tapping the equity and debt capital markets) and in mergers and acquisitions. He has a successful track record in the institutions that he worked for, including the ING Group, and Banque Indosuez, which has a very long history of doing business in Asia. Lye Heng was Managing Director of Indosuez' Investment Banking unit in Singapore up to 1996. During this time, he had initiated a highly successful Mezzanine Debt business that worked in conjunction with the Bank's Private Equity division. [more...]


Deming Chung - International Specialist Advisor

Deming Chung has been with AFG Venture Group as an Associate Director since 2010. He has 8 years of experience spanning finance, entrepreneurial start-ups and business development consulting. He has prior experience with Barclays Capital as an Analyst supporting the Debt Syndications business; he performed due diligence on global loan syndication deals and provided direct support to the business line COO. During his tenure, he built up in depth knowledge in syndications as well as banking systems, processes and infrastructure. He is currently acting as partner of a sales advisory that provides consulting and executing capabilities to American technology and local SMEs that want to have a foothold in Asia. [more...]


Graham Libbesson - Special Advisor - IT & T Resources

Graham Libbesson has commerce and law degrees. He has been a chartered accountant for over 30 years. He was senior tax partner and managing partner at the old PKF Sydney.

For the last 16 years he has been a director of and/or advisor to, and shareholder in, various private and listed resources, IT and technology companies. He has been a director of a number of listed and unlisted IT companies; mining/exploration companies, wealth sector service/software; outsourced accounting. The companies have had international operations. He has been Chairman and member of a number of audit committees.

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