About

One of Brazil’s largest food exporters and a leading producer of beef, leather, live cattle exports and cattle by-products in South America, Minerva Foods has a footprint in several states including São Paulo, Tocantins, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, Espírito Santo, Pará and in the Federal District, as well as in Paraguay and Uruguay, operating ten slaughter and deboning plants and eight distribution centres. Providing support to these centres as well as the Minerva Foods commercial offices in Russia, Lebanon, Iran, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Chile, Colombia and the United States is the Minerva Foods legal team, led by legal director Flávia Regina Ribeiro da Silva Villa. Assisting in the company’s remit of selling its products to approximately 100 countries as well as processing beef, pork and poultry products, the legal team was spoken of highly by a nominating source who claims: ‘They deal not only with legal work for Minerva’s business in Brazil, which is huge, but also with Minerva’s business in very different Latin American jurisdictions such as Argentina, Uruguay, Chile [and] Paraguay’.