About

Starting her legal profession at a private practice, Minerva Ionita had plans to cultivate her professional expertise and for this reason chose to work for a multinational company when joining Arctic in 2012 as in-house lawyer. By May 2015, Ionita had been appointed as the leader of the Arctic legal team. In the beginning the company only had one in-house lawyer, however as the company grew and the European and national legislation pushed compliance to a higher level of complexity, the need to create a broader legal team became more apparent. Ionita says of legal team that, ‘I am very proud of having both the management team’s and my colleagues’ invaluable support for building together a structured legal team with diverse areas of expertise and a business-oriented approach which offers legal support to a large number of projects’. Ionita takes pride in representing Arctic before the European Commission and Romanian authorities on environmental issues, specifically topics regarding the transposition and the implementation of EU Directives as well as offering legal assistance in the new State Aid investment project in partnership with the Romanian government.