About

As the legal manager for Compañía Minera Ares – an affiliate of Hochschild Mining, Jaime Rinaldi Mansilla has been behind some of its most notable transactions over the last few years. Amongst these is his collaboration on Hochschild Mining’s $360m plus deal to buy the Toronto-listed International Minerals Corporation in December 2013. More recently, in 2017 he led a $100m credit facility for Compañía Minera Ares and also led the preparation, negotiation, execution and settlement of a $142m EPC contract for the construction and other contracts related to development of the Inmaculada mine for more than $300m. This was a unique event and one of the greatest achievements in Rinaldi’s career as it was particularly complex procedure; he nevertheless led the team that obtained the construction permit for the development and building of the Inmaculada mine in a record time of seven months. Behind a number of internal innovations, he has implemented a tailored software for the management of contracts that allows the tracking of a contract or amendment from the request by a particular department of the company, through the drafting and negotiation. Before his current position he spent almost three years as legal manager of Minera Santa Cruz in Argentina, where he led all the legal matters on the development of the San José Mine. He heads a team of six lawyers and two non-legal specialists, with a variety of specialisations including corporate law, compliance, regulatory matters, labour, litigation, mining property and real estate.