About

Since 2006 Heraldo Geres has been at multinational food company Marfrig Group, where he currently assumes the role of vice president overseeing legal affairs from the company’s base in São Paulo. Marfrig has several operations in the food service sector and a presence in 16 countries across the globe including, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, France, USA, United Kingdom and China. Geres provides legal advice across all matters relating to the three separate operating subsidiaries: Marfrig Beef, Moy Park and Keystone Foods. Geres’ decade of work at the company has seen numerous changes to create a solid legal and compliance base. This stability has enabled Marfrig’s global beef division to ship the first container of natural beef to the United States in September 2016. This has opened up a potentially lucrative market in the wake of the implementation of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which should provide unlimited access to the US market from 2020 onwards. Geres came to Marfrig from private practice, where he was a partner at Benicio Advogados between 2001 and 2006 and is a consultant member of the Commission of Corporate Law in Brazil.