LONDON – Eldorado Gold and Hellas Gold Single Member, S.A.’s €680 million project financing facility – Greece’s largest ever – was named Europe Mining Deal of the Year at the 2023 Proximo Deal of the Year Awards. Bracewell (UK) LLP advised Hellas Gold – Eldorado Gold Corporation’s wholly owned subsidiary – on the project financing facility.
Led by partners Ro Lazarovitch, Tom Swarbrick and Oliver Irwin and senior counsel Bagyasree Nambron, Bracewell represented Hellas Gold on the award-winning transaction, which also won the Project Financing Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2023 Resourcing Tomorrow Awards.
Located within the Halkidiki Peninsula of Northern Greece, Skouries is a gold-copper porphyry deposit to be mined using a combination of conventional open pit and underground mining techniques.
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