About

Known as an ‘exceptional GC: dynamic and proactive with a unique understanding of both the mining industry and the relevant legal issues’, José Pedro Urrutia has been at Anglo American since 2013. The London-headquartered global mining company operates the Los Bronces, El Soldado and Collahuasi mines in the country to produce copper. Prolific in getting important company activities across the line, in June 2017 Urrutia helped facilitate a $77m investment to modernise housing facilities for workers at the Los Bronces mine. In the previous year he helped negotiate and close a new four-year collective agreement with two workers’ unions at the same mine, which ended a legal strike by miners and thus resumed the company’s operations. The CEO for one of the unions stated that the deal was ‘fair and responsible and we are satisfied with the agreement reached’. Following an illegal five-day takeover of the mine that same year, Urrutia was again relied on by the company to lead legal proceeding against the contractors involved. Despite not being in direct conflict with the contractors, Anglo American continued to promote dialogue between service providers and their respective employees in order to establish a healthy and constructive relationship as result of the legal team’s activities. Before joining Anglo American, Urrutia was legal and corporate director for South America at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. between 2007 and 2013. Before that he was a senior associate at law firm Urenda, Rencoret, Orrego & Dörr from 1998 until 2006.