Address
27 Brook StreetEdlesborough
Dunstable
Beds
LU6 2JG
Telephone Number
07507 237218Email Address
secretary@bacfi.org
|
|
//Chairman Biography
Sara George
|
SARA GEORGE is global law firm Sidley Austin’s lead International Investigations and Crisis Management partner in Europe. She undertook pupillage in specialist criminal chambers before becoming a prosecutor for the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and brought the first criminal prosecution by the FSA against a director for misleading the market, the first Listing Rule contravention, numerous market abuse cases, and refusals of authorization. Sara has extensive experience representing corporations in crisis situations and in matters involving allegations of criminal misconduct, including market abuse, insider dealing, money laundering, cybersecurity breaches, fraud, corruption, bribery, supply chain exploitation, trafficking and human rights abuses. She is ranked in Band 1 for Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory (Individuals) in Chamber and Partners 2026 and a Leading Partner for Financial services: contentious and for Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals) in Legal 500. She was recognised in The Lawyer Hot 100 2024 for her experience in international criminal and human rights investigations, and experience pioneering corporate investigations in countries with no history of independent investigations such as in the Horn of Africa. She is a former Chair of the Employed Bar Committee of the Bar Council. |
