# Annaliese Eames Chief Legal & External Affairs Officer (listed by ASM; post-acquisition continuity not confirmed) ## Career chronology - **30 January 2023 to current per undated ASM management page; post-acquisition continuity unconfirmed: Australian Strategic Materials** — General Counsel and Joint Company Secretary; current page title Chief Legal & External Affairs Officer. [Annual Report 2023]() (p. 74, appointment date); [Management Team]() (lines 31-35) - **Immediately before ASM appointment; dates not stated: BHP** — Managing Counsel; area and dates not fully specified by ASM. [Management Team]() (line 35); [Annual Report 2023]() (p. 74) - **Before BHP/ASM; dates not stated: Other mining companies** — Legal roles, employers/titles not specified. [Management Team]() (line 35); [Annual Report 2023]() (p. 74) ## Education and qualifications ### Law degree reported [asm_annaliese_education] Undated · issuer reported · medium materiality ASM reports an LLB from the University of Notre Dame Australia; award date and independent verification were not located. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Education is reported by ASM. **Relevance:** Relevant to her General Counsel role. [Management Team]() (lines 36-38) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Signed the amended scheme implementation deed in company-secretary capacity [asm_annaliese_scheme_execution] March–August 2026 · documented · medium materiality A 2026 SEC-filed amended and restated Scheme Implementation Deed has Eames’s signature for ASM as Company Secretary/Director. The schemes later received court approval and were implemented. The signature documents execution in her formal corporate capacity; it does not establish the extent of her legal advice or responsibility for the transaction’s broader outcome. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The filing directly records her execution of the deed in her Company Secretary/Director capacity; it does not allocate substantive legal advice or transaction causation. **Relevance:** Relevant to legal/transaction execution, while the separate court disclosure observation concerns Smith’s early media answers and does not name Eames. [Energy Fuels Inc. Exhibit 10.1 – Amended and Restated Scheme Implementation Deed]() (signing page, lines 137-155); [Federal Court of Australia approves Schemes]() (lines 1-16 and 36-71); [Energy Fuels completes acquisition of ASM]() (lines 1-11) ### Represented ASM at a project community meeting during KMP and funding discussions [asm_annaliese_kmp_role_overlap] July 2023 · documented · low materiality The July 2023 Dubbo Project Community Consultative Committee report lists Eames as an attendee and records her updates about KMP sales/offtake, project funding and ESG. These are company statements recorded in meeting minutes, not proof she personally delivered those outcomes. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. Minutes record her attendance and statements; operational results are company-level. **Relevance:** Shows stakeholder and external-affairs work relevant to the current title. [Dubbo Project Community Consultative Committee Meeting Report – 13 July 2023]() (pp. 1-4, lines 10-16 and 81-111) ## Suitability for the current role ### Legal, contracting and governance background aligns with project and corporate work [asm_annaliese_role_fit] Before and during ASM tenure · analyst inference · medium materiality ASM reports more than 15 years of legal, commercial, strategic and governance experience, including large-project contracting, corporate, finance and IP law, and says she was Managing Counsel with BHP before joining. This is issuer-reported. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. ASM describes her prior role; it does not quantify project outcomes attributable to her. **Relevance:** Relevant to complex project contracting, funding, transaction and company-secretarial requirements. [Management Team]() (lines 31-35); [Annual Report 2023]() (p. 74) ## Evidence gaps - The current page is undated; it does not confirm Eames’s role after ASM’s acquisition on 28 August 2026. - Only the degree name is published; no award date or independent credential verification was located. - Specific BHP and other prior-employer titles and dates are not supplied. - The public sources reviewed establish transaction-document execution but not the extent of her legal advice, transaction work or responsibility for the court-recorded communication issue. - Open web searches are not exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation or regulator checks.