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Susan J. Mitchell is the founding member and President of S. Mitchell & Associates, LLC based in New York.  The firm as it is today began in 2003.

Susan’s professional record has been built as a highly organized strategic thinker, trained initially in international economics and finance at McGill University. 
Susan works with Client management to identify specific client needs and implement optimal solutions.

Her career grew from detailed economic analysis and forecasting into complex multinational, multi-sponsor, multi-commodity project finance and M&A transactions in the natural resource industry.

Her corporate affiliations have been as follows:

  • 1982-1992 Senior Manager, Corporate and Project Finance, CIBC, Toronto, Canada

  • 1993-1994 Thunderbird: American Graduate School of International Management – MIM/MBA

  • 1995-1999 Director, Treasury, Cyprus Amax Minerals Company, Denver, CO

  • 1999-2000 Managing Director, Structured Finance, METALS AND MINING, WestLB, New York, NY

  • 2001-2003 Director, Risk Solutions, Standard & Poors, New York, NY

  • 2003 – present President, S. Mitchell & Associates, LLC, New York, NY
  • Welcome to S. Mitchell & Associates, LLC

    S. Mitchell & Associates, LLC (SMA) maximizes Clients’ shareholder value consistent with their objectives by combining SMA’s strong relationships and technical strengths in the natural resources industry with detailed knowledge of financing sources, debt and equity investors and the competitive environment.

    SMA's Services reflect her unique accomplishments:

     

    d  Building multiple strong global business relationships over a quarter-century
    d  Analysis, development and implementation of corporate and financial strategies
    d  Closing negotiations with shareholders, borrowers, lenders, regulators and other
        stakeholders from the corporate, lending, investing and advisory perspectives
    d  Leading role in start up of a junior natural resource company as President.
    d  Execution of unique corporate financial structuring and restructuring transactions     including mergers and acquisitions.
    d  Astute matching of funding/investor appetite with company needs.
    d  Oversight of Enterprise and Financial Risk Management.


    SMA has built Clients’ funding and investor bases and pioneered innovative financial structures globally to achieve a Client's growth objectives.

    SMA’s strengths provide a solid base both for identifying the strengths of winning junior companies, their strategic financing and operating needs and investor perception as well as providing optimal financial structuring and credibility in the financial community.

    SMA's ASSOCIATES hold a broad range of complimentary skills in corporate and financial analysis, marketing and external communications, technical engineering and geological qualifications, business planning etc. An Associate is added to SMA’s team as appropriate for specific assignments, with the former approval of the Client.

    SMA's Recent Mandates:

     

    d  Define Client communication and financial program in relation to corporate goals
    d  Represent Canadian junior company in New York
    d  Organize two-day Road Shows (retail and institutional) in New York
    d  Analyze financial impact on CF/share of raising debt, convertible debentures or equity     for project development
    d  Revise corporate power point presentation to address specific investor audience
    d  Advise on gold loans/operating lines
    d  Clarify cross-border issues for complex financing
    d  Find investors for private placement
    d  Arrange Site Visits (schedule, investor attendees, travel etc.)
    d  Plan strategy for major property development