Sara George
Crisis & Risk Management Guide 2024
Band 1 : Crisis Management
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Provided by Sara George
Practice Areas
SARA GEORGE is Sidley's lead Crisis Management and Strategic Response lawyer in Europe. She is a former prosecutor for the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and brought the first criminal prosecution by the FSA against a director for misleading the market (Regina v. Rigby and Bailey), 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 and bribery.
Chambers Review
Crisis & Risk Management
Sara George often represents major corporations in response to regulatory and criminal investigations. She is experienced in international risk assessments, cyber breaches, whistle-blower allegations and SFO investigations.
Strengths
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"Sara George is an extremely impressive professional with a proven track record of success in complex issues."
"Sara provides an exemplary level of service and understanding of her clients' needs. She is very commercially aware and able to swiftly develop an understanding of priorities in a complex environment."
"Sara is definitely one of the top lawyers, she is very strategic."
"Sara George is an extremely impressive professional with a proven track record of success in complex issues."
"Sara provides an exemplary level of service and understanding of her clients' needs. She is very commercially aware and able to swiftly develop an understanding of priorities in a complex environment."
"Sara is definitely one of the top lawyers, she is very strategic."