General Counsel Interview with Bruce Czachor
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ruce Czachor is Vice President and General Counsel at Piedmont Lithium Ltd., a publicly traded
lithium business located in North Carolina. He has practiced corporate law for more than 30 years. His experience includes representing companies in mining, energy production and transmission, chemicals, and technology. Piedmont Lithium is positioning itself to be a sustainable provider of lithium hydroxide for the electric vehicle industry. bczachor@piedmontlithium.com
What are the key issues you deal with? Czachor: We’re a relatively young company, but we’re hoping the geographic proximity of our resources, production operations and prospective customers places us on the path to be the most sustainable provider of lithium hydroxide in the world. That should allow Piedmont to play a pivotal role in the move to electrification of transportation and energy storage. We just completed a complicated re-domiciliation transaction from Australia to the United States. As a result, we’re a Delaware public company with common stock listed on Nasdaq and CDIs (equal to 1/100th of a share) listed on the ASX. We are now subject to the rules and regulations of the SEC instead of a foreign private issuer. That switch entails a lot of new compliance requirements for the SEC and Nasdaq, Sarbanes-Oxley accounting, environmental rules, and all the other regulations that apply to emerging growth companies.
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