Canyon Resources Limited announced the appointment of Ms Adjou Ait Ben Idir as Non-Executive Director, effective from July 14, 2025. Based in Dubai, Ms Ait Ben Idir is a corporate finance and M&A lawyer with over 20 years of international experience across Europe, Middle-East, and Africa (EMEA). She specializes in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, privatisations, international joint ventures, and special situations/boardroom crisis management in the mining, energy, transport, and infrastructure sectors.
Ms Ait Ben Idir has worked at a listed international oil & gas company, focusing on corporate social responsibility and complex situations in emerging markets. She has also been a Partner at a large international law firm, holding various management and board roles, including leading the corporate, M&A & Securities practice. Ms Ait Ben Idir graduated from the University of Paris II Assas (Master's degree) and the University of Paris I Sorbonne (post-graduate degrees in OHADA and African countries law, politics, and MENA countries law and international relations).
