About

Adecoagro’s chief legal officer for Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, Emilio Gnecco has been a member of the company’s senior management since 2005. Formerly in private practice at The Legal 500 recommended Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal (and with additional experience at the national civil court of Appeals), he is ‘one of the best young lawyers I’ve encountered in the last 10 or 15 years’, according to one former private practice colleague, ‘a real star’. His handling, in the midst of the financial crisis, of the company’s 2011 IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (the last by an Argentine entity), raised $314m and was ‘masterfully managed’, according to sources familiar with the listing. Rightly proud of that success (he notes the difficulties of ‘harmonizing farming culture with the levels of compliance and standards required of a public listing in New York!’), he considers ‘having formed a work group that can develop both personally and professionally in a working environment that is cordial despite the intensity of the tasks they are responsible for’, as an equally significant achievement.