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‘An outstanding lawyer with an excellent grasp of the issues which affect her industry’, Betty Ivanoff is ‘unfailingly commercial, insightful and frank’. As general counsel to ASX 100 agribusiness GrainCorp, she has supported the company’s growth from having a market capitalisation of less than $400 million in 2008 to more than $1.8bn today. She manages the company’s legal and compliance affairs across all business units and jurisdictions, having a portfolio including GrainCorp’s Company Secretariat and Risk and Insurance teams. As well as leading significant capital raisings and cross-border transactions, Ivanoff is also praised for her handling of Arthur Daniels’ failed 2013 takeover and its aftermath. ‘She is unfailingly courteous and unswerving in her determination to get the best outcome for her company’, opines one private practice source. ‘She is a highly motivated person and her energy and enthusiasm infects the whole of her team, as well as the team of external lawyers that she has chosen’. Prior to joining GrainCorp, Ivanoff held internal corporate counsel positions with companies including CSR Limited, Walter Constructions and Sinclair Knight Merz.