Biennial IBA Latin American Regional Forum Conference - Latin America in the new world order: AI, energy, capital and the future of business and law
15 Mar - 17 Mar 2027
Session information
Breakout session 5: The critical minerals race in Latin America
Tuesday 16 March (1130 - 1230)
Description
Latin America’s central role in the global race for critical minerals and rare earths — the lithium triangle across Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, Chile and Peru’s dominance in copper and Brazil’s largely untapped rare earth deposits. This session will look at resource nationalism and the push toward local processing rather than raw export, permitting and community consent specific to extraction projects, offtake arrangements and the investors competing for these assets.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Paulo Rocha | Demarest Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil; Senior Vice Chair, Latin American Regional Forum |
| Andrea Saffie | Cariola Diez Perez-Cotapos, Santiago, Chile |