Chile’s Constitutional Court on Monday, October 22, delayed to Thursday a hearing into the contested sale of local lithium miner SQM to Chinese firm Tianqi.
The court’s president said an “extraordinary session” would decide whether to hear in full a complaint by SQM’s majority shareholder that the country’s antitrust court failed to follow due process in approving a settlement between Tianqi and Chilean regulators.
The agreement cleared the way for the Chinese miner to purchase a 24% stake in SQM, the world’s No. 2 producer of lithium.
The court can either agree to hear the case in full and suspend the sale, potentially putting it at risk, hear the case in full but allow the sale to go ahead, or decline to hear the case further.
Full Content: Reuters
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