About

Having worked at prestigious law firms such as Mayer Brown, Jauregui, Navarrete y Nader, SC (now Nader, Hayaux & Goebel) and Baker & Mackenzie, Gustavo Alarcon took his expertise and extensive experience representing clients in a wide range of domestic and international transactions in-house. He was appointed as general counsel for Northern Mexico at Fortune 100 conglomerate, GE Capital in 2014, where he held responsibility for all business segments on legal issues related to commercial transactions and executed cross-border transactions involving GE’s businesses and related third parties. Following this successful period, Alarcon joined Peñoles, Mexico’s second largest mining company as deputy general counsel in November 2015. His role entails advising all business and operations teams on legal issues related to mining regulation, M&A, corporate finance, capital markets and thermoelectric energy project in addition to advising subsidiaries and affiliates of Grupo Bal, Peñoles’ holding company, such as PetroBal and Fresnillo. Much more than a legal adviser, Alarcon has been an adjunct professor of international business transactions at private university Tecnológico de Monterrey since 2013 and has had a number of published works on banking, finance and managing industry regulations.