James Bamford

A look at partners of choice in the metals and mining industry, ranked across key dimensions related to JV success.

The purpose of this note is to outline the path out of adhocracy, map where companies are on the journey, and offer a few thoughts on how to get started.

Overview of the JV Manager role, including day-to-day responsibilities.

Overview of core challenges and keys to success for one of the toughest jobs in business, based on survey results from the JV CEO Effectiveness Assessment (Diagnostic).

What does it take to build a better JV Board and to manage the unique challenges that JVs face, relative to corporate governance? Having worked with hundreds of JVs over the years, our advice to any JV Board is to focus on getting seven things right. This article outlines each of these, and points to other critical tools and resources available to our clients.

Detailed findings and best practices for evaluating and structuring appropriate delegations of authority within a JV.

The purpose of this article is to explain how the valuation process in JVs should be run – and to outline the most common and best of these deal structuring techniques.

Tools to assess a JV’s voting rights while structuring the JV agreement.

The purpose of this memo is to explain how some JVs are starting to use a Strategy Committee (or equivalent) as one of several mechanisms to help channel owner input and manage strategy under intense owner scrutiny.