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Another of the younger figures on this list, the ‘stupendous’ Mauricio Ibáñez Campos, only took the ‘super high-profile position, both locally and internationally’ of general counsel at Grupo México in 2012. He has already been hailed, however, not only for his ‘invaluable global and strategic perspectives’, but in particular for ‘quickly managing to exercise strong control of long-standing legacy issues’. One of the country’s largest companies, Grupo Mexico is active in the mining, transportation and infrastructure sectors, and has a range of holdings across Mexico, the US and Peru. At least by training ‘a transactional lawyer more than anything else’, Ibáñez has not only led on a number of highly significant and sophisticated M&A transactions since his appointment, including the ‘taking-private’ of Southern Copper and a hostile offer for major Mexican airport concessionaire, Grupo Aeropuerto, but has also had to deal with sizeable contentious issues. Not only has he ‘learnt Grupo Mexico’s business inside-out, and everything there is to know about the mining industry’ say commentators, but he ‘has proved to be a master strategist with a superb understanding of complex legal issues in both transactional and litigation matters’. All admirers concur that ‘to arrive at such a complex group and pick up the reins so quickly is undoubtedly a major achievement in itself’. Ibáñez worked at a number of major firms including Baker & McKenzie, White & Case and (what was then) Jáuregui Navarrete Nader & Rojas, before founding Ibáñez Schriever & Hoffman (now Ibañez, Quintana, Saavedra & Hoffman), where he acted as managing partner. ‘Very straightforward’, ‘demanding of his team’ and ‘brilliant on transactional matters’, he ‘always seeks the growth of the company’ and ‘has a very pragmatic vision that really makes him easy to work with’.