On 9 May last Ireland’s Companies Registration Office (CRO) got an urgent request from a Dublin law firm to establish a company for the Brazilian group that is the world’s biggest meat processor. On 11 May the JBS Group announced in São Paulo a global restructuring with the new Irish JBS Foods International, a brass-plate operation with an address at the Dublin offices of A&L Goodbody in the international financial services centre (IFSC), set to list on the New York Stock Exchange.