Advised Minera IRL Limited ("Minera IRL"), a Peru-based gold mining company, in a four-month proxy battle in which a co-founder challenged control of the company by seeking to replace the incumbent directors. Minera’s board of directors was represented by a team at Fasken that included Daniel Batista, Chuck Higgins and Robert Shirriff, who together devised a defense strategy that allowed two of the three incumbent directors to remain in place notwithstanding that preliminary proxy results indicated that all three incumbents would be replaced.