Dealogic reported in its Global Project Finance Review that S&C has advised on the largest deals in each of the oil and gas and mining industries for first half of 2012: Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG) and Sierra Gorda, respectively. APLNG accounted for 29 percent of the oil and gas sector’s first half project volume.

S&C advised the Australia Pacific LNG project company in its signed $8.5 billion in project financing for its groundbreaking $20 billion coal seam gas to LNG development on Curtis Island, Queensland, Australia. S&C also advised Sierra Gorda SCM and its owners, KGHM International (formerly known as Quadra FNX Mining), Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. and Sumitomo Corporation, in their $1 billion financing for the Sierra Gorda copper-gold-molybdenum project in Chile’s Antofagasta region.