George Korchev Co-Heads the UK Compliance Advisory team covering the Global Advisory (GA) business at Rothschild & Co. • He is the Co-Chair of the AFME Compliance Issues Working Group and a member of the AFME Compliance Committee. Having been actively involved in industry discussions at XLOD, AFME, ICMA, SHCOG and other forums for a number of years, he is passionate about driving forward industry dialogue on regulatory compliance best practices. At Rothschild & Co, George advises the M&A, Corporate Finance and Equity Markets teams on a range of regulatory matters including MiFID II, MAR and the UK Takeover Code. As a member of the UK GA Risk Committee, Global Public Equity Capital Markets Committee and Secretary of the Global GA Risk Committee, he has experience of building and enhancing compliance, corporate governance and risk management frameworks. He has extensive experience in implementing various regulatory projects, most recently the UK Consumer Duty, Anti-Greenwashing rule and new Financial Promotion requirements. His previous experience includes implementing MiFID II, the FCA reforms on UK IPOs as well as building a global ECM compliance, Private Capital and Control Room framework. He also has extensive compliance training experience having delivered training sessions in London, Moscow, Frankfurt and Sofia. He holds a Master in Laws (LLM) degree from the London School of Economics & Political Science with a specialism in financial regulation and financial crime.
