George Fife

George is a Partner in Forensics Europe West team based in Paris, specialized in assisting companies with global risk and compliance assessments and investigations. George works closely with management teams, chief compliance officers, general counsels and chief audit executives to identify enforcement risks, determine potential vulnerabilities and recommend solutions from business and operational perspectives to prevent, detect and respond to compliance risks. He is the Europe West Forensic practice Sectors Leader, and also leads the Maghreb and French Speaking African practice.

George is a compliance and ethics professional with 20 years of in-house compliance life science experience. He has first-hand international experience in building, managing and assessing effectiveness of compliance programs, in the area of anti-corruption and anti-bribery (such as US FCPA, UK Bribery Act, Italy d.lgs 231/01,…), anti-trust and competition, Off-label and disguised promotion, embedding Compliance analytics into monitoring, responding to government investigations, designing cutting-edge compliance solutions in anticipation of new emerging risk area’s such as Transparency.

He assists clients to develop and assess pragmatically their compliance and monitoring programs based on company culture and level of maturity, driving investigations and developing forensic technology analytical solutions into their monitoring programs. He also specializes in M&A transaction forensic due diligence pre and post-acquisition, and is ISO 37001 Lead Auditor certified.

George has been nominated in 2020, 2021, 2022 by Who’s Who Legal as one of the Leading experts in Forensic Investigations, both at EMEA level and in France.

Prior EY, George worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb where he served as EMEA Executive Director Compliance & Ethics and globally anti-corruption and third-parties. Prior to BMS, George worked at GE Healthcare in a regional EMEA Compliance and Third-Parties Manager.