About

Michael Bruce joined Procter & Gamble as legal manager in 2013. Working out of the company’s Costa Rica-based regional headquarters, Bruce arrived just as the company was increasing its presence in the country. In 2014, a new supply-chain planning centre turned Costa Rica into the hub for Procter & Gamble’s operations in Latin America, consolidating its presence in a country that already hosted its financial services and business transformation centres. Bruce’s first task was to plough through the legal work related to this regional consolidation, something nominators say he accomplished with great ease while demonstrating a ‘sharp eye for the finer points of commercial risk’. Before moving in-house, Bruce spent 10 years as a partner at leading Central American firm ACZALAW, and opened its Costa Rica office in 2003. He has published a number of widely-cited commentaries on trade and investment law in Central America and has a reputation as one of Costa Rica’s most talented legal minds.