Career Biography

Mauricio is a corporate lawyer with extensive experience in commercial negotiation, international mergers and acquisitions, natural resources, ethics and compliance, project development, and sustainability. He has more than 25 years of professional practice in the national and international corporate world, having worked in Chile, New York, Paris, and Mexico City in law firms and leading multinational mining and industrial companies.

He has held positions of manager, director, and VP legal in Chile and at the regional level for Latin America in companies such as Kinross, BHP, Goldcorp Inc. (now Newmont Corporation), the Lafarge Group, Codelco, and Aclara. He was also an associate in the law firms Carey y Cía. and Cleary Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. In his last stage at Goldcorp, he was also the Country Manager of the company’s operations in Chile.

He graduated with the highest distinction as a lawyer from the Universidad de Chile and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) from the University of Chicago in the United States.

He was a professor of the Stock Market Course at the Law School of the University of Chile for more than ten years and an assistant professor of the Economic Law Department of the same School.