About

Referred to by sources as a professional who ‘challenges the status quo’, José Pedro Urrutia oversees a legal team which is said to be more than capable of attending to the legal necessities of Anglo American in Chile. One source says: ‘He has been able to recruit and retain talented lawyers with deep knowledge of their respective legal specialties. He is a down to earth, unassuming leader, very much liked by his staff’. Urrutia’s team also possesses excellent expertise in overseeing complex M&A and joint ventures transactions, which is particularly useful now as Anglo American is, like other major miners in Latin America, considering buying stakes in companies and mining operations that can provide it with exposure to greater variety of assets. The company’s four existing copper operations in Chile – Los Bronces mine, Collahuasi mine, El Soldado mine and Chagres smelter, all require the team’s ongoing support as well, as they face a myriad of problems of legal and regulatory nature. José Pedro Urrutia who has been at Anglo American since June 2013 has designed the unit’s internal structure and has boosted its integration in the wider company. A graduate of Columbia Law School, Urrutia previous career features a six-and-a-half year tenure as legal and corporate director of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, as well as a nine year period in private practice at law firms Urenda, Rencoret, Orrego & Dörr and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.