Anglo American and Teck have announced who will take the top legal role at the combined company, as the mining giants gear up to complete their $69bn merger as Anglo Teck.
Lyndon Arnall, chief legal and sustainability officer at Canada’s Teck, has been named on the executive leadership team at the combined company, retaining the same job title.
The new exec team, led by Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad, will step into their roles on completion of the merger, which is expected to take place between September 2026 and March 2027.
Arnall, who is based in Canada, has extensive experience in the mining sector. He joined Teck at the end of 2024 from rival miner BHP, where he spent nearly 13 years, including serving as group general counsel from 2020 to 2024.
Before joining BHP, Arnall also worked in-house at companies including Hewlett-Packard, Barclays and Infosys, after beginning his career at Linklaters.
Anglo American’s current chief legal and corporate affairs officer Richard Price said in a LinkedIn post that he will be stepping away from his role on the executive leadership team of Anglo American, and will join the board of Anglo Teck as a non-executive director following the merger.
Price joined the miner in 2017 as group general counsel, and moved into his current role in 2023. He was succeeded by Kate Southwell, who recently spoke to LB about her first three years as group GC, which have seen her steer the legal team through a series of hostile takeover bids by rival miner BHP.
Southwell’s role at the merged company is as yet unconfirmed.
Announcing his move, Price looked back on ‘a decade of deeply gratifying experience working with fantastic people at Anglo American’.
‘I will be stepping back from my executive role once our merger with Teck Resources completes and I will join the inaugural board of Anglo Teck as a non-executive director,’ he said.
‘I cannot think of a more perfect transition for me, having been at the heart of championing and configuring the merger, preparing the ground for its successful announcement and approval in Canada, and leading the legal and corporate affairs teams to secure the shareholder and regulatory approvals that we need.’
‘I am delighted that the legal team will be ably led by Lyndon Arnall, Teck’s current GC, who I have known for many years and regard as a highly capable lawyer and leader.’
Anglo American and Teck agreed their merger last September, before which BHP had made a series of unsolicited takeover bids for Anglo, rising from £31bn to more than £38bn.
Latham & Watkins advised Anglo American on the Teck merger, with Canadian firm Torys and South African Webber Wentzel also advising on regional matters. Wachtell, Freshfields, and Canadian firm Stikeman Elliott advised Teck.
