About

In 20 years, Rebeca Orozco Garcia has accumulated a wealth of experience after having worked in a number of top legal positions. Between 1996 and 1998 Orozco Garcia served as chief in legal affairs at domestic appliance and tools company, Black & Decker. Staying in the industry, she spent the next 11 years at electrical equipment manufacturer Schneider Electric México, working in various positions including corporate legal director for Mexico and Central America. In 2010 she was hired by the largest producer of long steel in the Americas, Gerdau Corsa México, serving as corporate legal manager for its joint ventures in Mexico. In her current role with the company she runs the legal affairs of seven steel companies and is part of the board of directors. Orozco Garcia has been instrumental in developing and executing the restructure of 16 companies with different shareholdings, several stockholders, and 1,200 employees in a narrow timeframe. In implementing one general administration for the companies, she has achieved a much better control for the company over its several operations. Another of her major contributions was taking care of the legal work between 2011 and 2015 in order to set up a new steel plant in Mexico with an investment of $600m, which involved obtaining a number of licences. The steel industry is largely affected by global markets and commodity prices; with stiff competition from China, Orozco Garcia has participated significantly in lobbying with several authorities in order to obtain more favourable conditions for the steel market. As a reflection of her proactive methods, Orozco Garcia says ‘legal always has to think and act in a preventing way when you know there are changes in law of any kind of regulatory theme may affect the industry you are in’.