About

An experienced trilingual lawyer for prestigious multinational companies in the mining sector, Claudio Cáceres Franco leads the legal area for Minera Las Bambas providing advice in mining, environmental, corporate, civil, financing and social issues. Prior to his current role he served as legal manager in charge of legal management at Glencore Copper Group in Peru. One of the main achievements obtained in the last years of his career has been to provide legal advice in the transaction related to the sale of the Las Bambas mining project between Glencore and MMG, valued at $7bn, as well as the design of the legal strategy to obtain the governmental approvals needed for its construction and operation. Cáceres possesses a strong ability to interact with national, regional and local authorities as well as participating in different dialogue processes with farmer communities in the Andes of Peru, including the legal advice during the negotiation process for the resettlement of the Fuerabamba farmer community for the Las Bambas project. Cáceres also had active participation in leading the strategy to obtain governmental consents for construction and operations as well as dialogue processes with local communities: ‘As part of the development of Las Bambas project, I have actively participated in various dialogue processes with communities. Thus, I had the opportunity to provide legal advice during the resettlement process of the Fuerabamba Community’. This has significantly contributed to have a direct approach with local communities of the Southern Highlands of Peru and to understand their requirements, concerns, forms of organisation, among others – something which is critical to provide better legal advice to the various internal areas. Cáceres is described as a leader who is capable of managing highly productive work teams and someone who is capable of adapting to change and new situations.