Andrew Mark Fitzgerald Pollard, SC
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Personal Experience
Andrew’s practice areas are Mining (Petroleum/Oil & Gas/Gold/Bauxite); M&A; Due-Diligence for Corporate Acquisitions; Company; Partnership and Joint Venture formations and dissolutions, Commercial Agreements, Formation of Offshore Associations for Tax Purposes; Securities and Financial Services regulation; Structuring Offshore Investment; Civil and Commercial Litigation; Administrative Law; Copyright and Intellectual Property Law.
Andrew heads the firm’s mining and oil and gas practices. He has been especially active in mining law from the inception of Guyana’s present Mining Act in 1989 to the present. He has been instrumental in providing creative solutions for the firm’s clients who have been faced with questions such as the consequences of the Act’s separation of the gold mining sector into several scales, each reserved for different groups, and has led the obtaining of replacement petroleum prospecting licenses for clients whose existing ones are inadequate for proper evaluation and development of the resource.
Organizations & Memberships
Is a Director of several Corporations in Guyana including Guyana Stockfeeds Inc., Sterling Products Limited, and Croesus Minerals Inc.
Previously served as Treasurer and Executive Committee Member of the Guyana Bar Association.
Clients Include
ExxonMobil Corp.
Tullow Oil
CNOOC Petroleum
Anadarko Petroleum
CGX Resources Inc.
Troy Resources
Guyana Geology and Mines Commission
Innovative Mining Inc.
Petropavlovsk Plc
Atlantic Rice Mills Inc.
UC Rusal
Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.
Guyana Stockfeeds Inc.
South American Minerals Inc.
Guyana Bank for Trade & Industry Limited
Export Import Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (Eximbank) Ltd.
Languages
English