Mast, Christopher E.

Mike Marting is a transactional lawyer with more than 35 years of experience representing foreign and domestic metals and mining clients. His principal experience has been in mergers, negotiated acquisitions and dispositions, project financing, capital formation, and domestic and cross-border joint ventures. In addition to his transactional practice, Mike advises metals and mining clients on commercial transactions (Uniform Commercial Code Article 2, the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods) and U.S. securities law disclosure requirements (SEC Industry Guide 7).

Mike's recent representations include: Cliffs Natural Resources' long-term supply contract disputes with a significant customer and its strategic alliance with Kobe Steel for an iron metallics plant, The North American Coal Corporation's sale of assets of a Louisiana coal mine and its joint venture to provide mining services to a third-party owner of coal reserves in South Texas, and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan's filings to meet U.S. securities law disclosure requirements for mineral reserves.

Mike is a member of the International Bar Association (Section on Energy & Natural Resources). He has been listed in Who's Who in American Law starting in 1990, Who's Who in the World starting in 2006, Who's Who in the Midwest starting in 1992, and Who's Who in America starting in 1994. He has spoken at metallics and iron ore industry conferences and has coauthored the chapters on coal and Native American energy resources in the volume Energy Policy Act of 1992, included in the treatise Energy Law and Transactions.