Ivanhoe Mines Completes C$158M Public Offering

On June 9, 2005, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. completed the offering of C$158 million of common shares, the proceeds of which will be used to fund additional expenditures on Ivanhoe's Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold project in Mongolia. The underwriting syndicate was led by BMO Nesbitt Burns.

Ivanhoe was represented by Goodmans LLP with a Vancouver-based team of Steve Robertson, David Redford, John Munnis and Jonathan O'Connor. Ted Maynard, Andrew Foley and Mona Dallal of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York acted as US counsel.

Torys LLP represented the underwriting syndicate in Canada and the US with a team of Kevin Morris, Cornell Wright, Andrew Beck, Peter Johnson, Ron Nobrega and Peter Jewett.