Head of legal | Molinos Rio de la Plata
Ana Carina Turco Grecco
Head of legal | Molinos Rio de la Plata
Legal affairs manager | Molinos Río de la Plata
Molinos Río de la Plata is Argentina’s largest branded food-products company and is a subsidiary of the Perez Companc Family Group. Heading up the legal and compliance function is Ana...
‘An excellent in-house lawyer who focuses rapidly on the key issues and is always an aid to her external counsel’, Ana Carina Turco is head of legal at Perez Companc subsidiary, Molinos Río de la Plata, Argentina’s largest branded food-products company. Having joined the company in 2000 as head of corporate matters, she has had to manage considerable transactional activity over the course of the last decade, including the acquisitions of Pecom Agra, Molfino Hermanos and Bodegas Nieto Senetine (2002), Conagra Foods (2003), Jugos Naturales Minerva (2004), Grupo Estrella and Virgilio Manera (2007), Alimenticia Los Andes and Delverde Alimentarie (2008), los Grobo (2009), Renova (2010), and most recently Emprendimientos Joralfa and, via the company’s Chilean subsidiary, holding company Sipco Asesorías e Inversiones, in 2012. Other matters included the sale of the company’s “IDEAL” edible-oils business to Bunge in 2004, and a share buy-back in 2006. One Uruguayan admirer comments ‘she’s an outstanding professional with a great ability to reach the best possible outcome for her client. She’s expeditious and efficient without losing her focus on quality’. An Argentine commentator notes: ‘she is extraordinary; she knows her company inside-out and is very intelligent in her analysis and explanation of issues’. A board member, since 2012 she has also had responsibility for compliance matters, reporting directly to the CEO.