Yves De Bruyne

About

Experience

• Procter & Gamble (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Retired Senior Vice-President / Consular Judge at the Commercial Court (Belgium)
    Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Senior Vice-President & General Counsel - Europe & Global Go-to-Market (Geneva)
    Jul 2019 - Sep 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Senior Vice-President & General Counsel - Europe, India, Middle East & Africa (Geneva)
    Jul 2009 - Jul 2019 · 10 yrs 1 mo

• General Counsel at Procter & Gamble
  1989 - 2009 · 20 yrs

  General Counsel and Head of Legal P&G Benelux (Brussels 1991), P&G Europe Beauty Care (London 1997), P&G Global Haircare and Global Fine Fragrances (London 1999), P&G Europe Business Units (Geneva 2003), P&G Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (Geneva 2006)

• Chairman at Belgian Company Lawyers Association (ABJE/BVBJ now IJE/IBJ)
  1998 - 2000 · 2 yrs

  Brussels Under the initiative and leadership of the ABJE/BVBJ Board of Directors, a new law was adopted by the Belgian Parliament in 2000 to recognise the in-house legal profession and the legal privilege for in-house counsels. Under Article 5 of the Act of March, 1st 2000 creating the Belgian Institute for In-house Counsels (Institut des Juristes d’Entreprise / Instituut voor Bedrijfsjuristen), advices given by in-house counsels are now confidential and protected. This new provision is based on fundamental rights set out in art. 6 (right to legal assistance) and art. 8 (right to privacy) of the European Convention on Human Rights - this is a critical provision that helps in-house counsels drive compliance across industries and businesses.

• Associate at Allen & Overy
  Jun 1987 - Oct 1989 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  Private practice with the Brussels law firm of Allen & Overy (then Loeff Claeys Verbeke)