Full background report
Andrew Hastings
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Career chronology
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Through 31 October 2026: Alcoa Corporation — Executive Vice President and General Counsel. 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K (Executive officers: Hastings)
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Before joining Alcoa: Lundin Mining — Lundin Mining senior vice president and general counsel from February 2019 to August 2023; earlier legal and commercial roles at Barrick Gold.. 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K (Executive officers: Hastings)
Personal achievements
In-house legal representation on Caserones purchase
July 2023 · documented · medium materiality
Cassels reported Lundin completed its 51% acquisition of Caserones in July 2023 and identified Hastings as Lundin’s internal legal representative.
Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Independent transaction counsel identifies his internal legal role, but does not quantify his individual contribution or later investment outcome.
Relevance: Relevant transactional legal experience.
Lundin completes Caserones acquisition (Transaction and Lundin internal counsel)
Environmental record
Alcaparrosa sinkhole during Lundin tenure
2022; actions in 2025 · documented · high materiality
Lundin subsidiary Ojos del Salado experienced a sinkhole near Alcaparrosa mine in July 2022. In January 2025 Chile’s environmental authority ordered permanent closure and fines. Lundin reported a September 2025 civil decision requiring backfilling, aquifer recharge, monitoring and local water infrastructure; it said it would work with authorities while considering next steps.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Hastings was Lundin general counsel at the time of the event but had left before the 2025 decisions; no personal role in causing the incident is established.
Relevance: Prior-employer environmental and legal outcome relevant to evaluation of legal oversight.
2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K (Executive officers: Hastings tenure); Alcaparrosa closure and penalty (30 January 2025 sanctions); Lundin reports on civil claim concerning Alcaparrosa (7 September 2025 remediation decision)
Suitability for the current role
Experience and present responsibilities
Current at cutoff · analyst inference · low materiality
Analyst inference: Andrew Hastings has documented experience relevant to executive vice president and general counsel. Lundin Mining senior vice president and general counsel from February 2019 to August 2023; earlier legal and commercial roles at Barrick Gold. This documents experience, not a verified individual operating result.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role-fit judgment based on issuer and dated professional records; it is not a finding of personal performance.
Relevance: Relevant to the stated role; career and contribution evidence varies by person.
2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K (Executive officers: Hastings); 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K (Executive officers: Hastings)
Evidence gaps
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Credential and professional licence claims have not been independently verified with awarding or licensing bodies.
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This is limited public-source screening; full prior-employer incident, litigation and regulator records were not obtained, and no personal clearance is inferred.
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Individual contribution to aggregate company results is not established.
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A final outcome of subsequent Alcaparrosa challenges and implementation of remediation was not established.
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This report is a preliminary screening: nine topic rows include reused combined and company-level searches. They are not nine separate person-specific searches and do not establish comprehensive prior-employer diligence.
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Lundin’s Alcaparrosa record and transaction were reviewed, but the former employer’s full incident and legal history was not comprehensively searched.