About

Since 2001, Rafael Cox Montt has overseen legal matters for CMPC, a pulp and paper company headquartered in Chile. With operations throughout Latin America and worldwide revenues of over $4bn, CMPC is one of the leading companies in the region for the production and sale of forestry, pulp, paper and tissue products. Cox helped the company expand into wider Latin America in 2009 to overcome domestic land and environmental restrictions by making the largest foreign acquisition by a Chilean company, when it bought a Brazilian company for $2bn. A related follow-on investment overseen by Cox, helped CMPC build a strategically important mill in a deal worth another $2.5bn, taking the total cost of the deal to almost $5bn. Following an investigation into the company’s Consumer Products Business Area, Cox successfully applied for leniency programmes in the affected jurisdictions and remains in charge of guiding the legal side for the company during this period. Since completing an LLM in Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School in 2012, Cox returned to the company to become general counsel and corporate secretary. He began creating an executive legal team in all jurisdictions and currently leads a team of 12 lawyers – a number which is due to expand as the team supports CMPC’s growing business operations in different jurisdictions. Having also gained experience in private practice, Cox had a spell with law firm Sullivan & Cromwell as a visiting lawyer between 2004 and 2005 and served as an associate for Yrarrázaval, Ruiz-Tagle, Goldenberg, Lagos & Silva between 2000 and 2001 immediately prior to joining CMPC.