About

Ivan Alamilla graduated as a lawyer in his native Mexico in 1999 (Universidad La Salle). Already fluent in Spanish and English, he added French to his repertoire whilst studying Business Law at the University of the Social Sciences, Toulouse. Later on, he obtained a legal Masters degree at Instituto de Empresa, in Spain. He joined agricultural co-operative group Vivescia in February 2009 initially as an international lawyer, eventually being appointed group’s legal department manager in 2014. Now leading a team of six, Alamilla has completed projects and business sales overcoming the complex legal, economic and tax structures acquired companies had with their parent companies. On one multi million euro transaction that took two years to complete with a large international client, Alamilla skilfully managed to move the client’s policies and traditions in order to adjust the contract to a real agreement of two parties. He and his team continue to implement electronic data management at Vivescia to protect the documentary heritage of the whole group. Due to the volatility of grain prices and variety of markets Vivescia operates in, Alamilla provides a global legal business vision that can ‘better assess the risks and advise on the best protection levels required for each job, each contract for each transaction’.