Jeff Taylor, executive vice president and chief litigation counsel of Fox Corp. (Courtesy photo)

General Motors Co. deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer Jeff Taylor, a former federal prosecutor, is leaving the auto industry in his rearview mirror as he heads to a new position as executive vice president and chief litigation counsel for the new Fox Corp.

Taylor’s arrival at Fox occurs days after it became a stand-alone company following The Walt Disney Co.’s $71 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox.

He will report to Viet Dinh, the New York-based mass media company’s chief legal and policy officer, and oversee litigation, labor and employment, content protection and compliance for all of Fox’s operations, which includes Fox News.

“Jeff’s decades of leadership experience in corporate and government roles coupled with his successful track record of creating, implementing and upholding rigorous compliance policies make him the ideal addition to Fox,” Dinh said in a prepared statement released Friday.

Taylor, who was not immediately available for an interview, joined GM’s legal department in Detroit in late 2015 and oversaw the company’s ethics and compliance program along with strategy, communications and training for GM’s code of conduct.

He worked with a federal government-appointed monitor who was required to oversee GM for three years as part of a $900 million settlement with the Justice Department over faulty ignition switches, which allegedly caused 124 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

Before GM, Taylor spent five years as vice president and general counsel of international aerospace and defense company Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Earlier in his career, Taylor, a Harvard Law School alum, served an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California from 1995 to 1999, when he was selected as counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary. He went on to secure an appointment in 2006 as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

He resigned in 2009 and joined Ernst & Young in Washington, D.C., where he led the firm’s fraud investigation and dispute services practice.

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