Client industry · November 2026
Mining & Metals: who advises the sector
Dated deals for mining & metals clients over the last 12 months, the practices and firms behind them, and how lawyers with this focus moved.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 755
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +25.6%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $383m
- Median disclosed value
- 333
- Distinct clients
What the data show
Sartori & Partners data count 755 dated deals for Mining & Metals clients from November 2025 to October 2026. Year on year, on windows that end a month early, the deal count grew 25.6% (637 to 800). The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By practice, Capital Markets is involved in 45.3% of these deals and Corporate & M&A in 33.9%. By deal type, Capital markets is involved in 43.6% of these deals and M&A in 28.1%.
Deal value was disclosed on 30.2% of them; where disclosed, the median was $383 million. 333 distinct clients appear across the window.
First among advising firms is Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, with deals in the 61-100 band.
Lawyers whose work centers on Mining & Metals changed firm 44 times in the same window. Partners were 63.6% of those moves, against 27.7% across the lateral market. Year on year those moves changed -8.2%.
For a general counsel in Mining & Metals, these are the firms and practices that see the most of the sector's work: the bench to brief, and the bench in-house hires come from.
Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Deals (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fasken Martineau DuMoulin | 61-100 |
| 2 | Latham & Watkins | 21-40 |
| 3 | White & Case | 21-40 |
| 4 | Dorsey & Whitney | 21-40 |
| 5 | DLA Piper | 21-40 |
| 6 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | 21-40 |
| 7 | A&O Shearman | 21-40 |
| 8 | Linklaters | 21-40 |
| 9 | Allens | 21-40 |
| 10 | Troutman Pepper Locke | 11-20 |
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In mining and metals, one firm sits alone in the 61-100 band of deals advised, and the work runs through Toronto, Vancouver, Perth and Sydney as well as New York and London. Sector deals rose 25.6% against 10.6% for the market, with capital markets and lending far above their market shares.
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Over 36 months, 19.1% of mining lawyers who changed firms stepped up a title, against 12.3% across the market. The movers are mostly partners, spread across projects, corporate and regulatory work, and London is their first city: a mining company hiring from firms competes with promotion, not only pay.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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