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General Counsel: Latin America - Global Market Leaders
Individual Editorial
Macarena Vargas is based in Santiago and is Codelco's Vice President of Legal affairs. She joined the state-owned mining entity in 2023 and has impressive expertise in a host of areas, including M&A, antitrust and sustainability. Her work also involves overseeing contentious matters and legal risk connected to large-scale mining activities.
Strengths
Macarena is exceptionally intelligent, prudent, and capable of staying on top of the many matters under her responsibility.
Macarena has great people skills, but at the same time is very assertive and firm with her positions. She is very good at negotiating and reaching agreements. Macarena really is a GC to look up to.
Macarena is very innovative as a GC.