Snellman acted as counsel to Gruvaktiebolaget Viscaria, a company that is scaling up to become a modern and responsible producing mining company through the reopening of the Viscaria mine in Kiruna, on its directed issue and private placement of 144,222,570 new shares to professional investors, raising approximately SEK 2.4 billion before transaction costs, of which approximately SEK 1.7 billion was cash proceeds. Given the size of the share issue, part of the share issue is subject to approval by an extraordinary general meeting. The complex transaction also included a component under the Swedish so-called Lex Leo rules, a component subject to Swedish FDI approval, and parts of the share issue being paid by set-off. Handelsbanken Markets, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB and Pareto Securities acted as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners in the directed issue. Gruvaktiebolaget Viscaria is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm main market.

Snellman’s core advisory team comprised Christoffer Saidac, Emma Greiff, Lisa Kindstedt, Agnes Svensson Backlund and Mattias Friberg (Capital Markets), Philip Thorell and Esther Järvling (FDI).