Phillipe Lalieu has more than 13 years experience in the corporate finance and business development and is the co-founder of Opes Capital. He led numerous transactions in Sub-Saharan Africa including the acquisition and disposal of a number of significant mining assets, the raising of exploration and mine development funding for green and brown field mining projects, resource specific regulatory and compliance advisory and the principle negotiation of off-take and other partnership agreements. Prior to Opes, Mr Lalieu established and jointly managed Invescape Growth Partnership South Africa, the South African private equity and investment management arm of a Dubai-based Investment House and has also worked for Anglo Platinum in corporate finance and business development roles.