Rashda Rana SC General Information Called to the bar in 1990, Rashda became leading Counsel in 2014. She has extensive experience in international commercial litigation and arbitration gained across the UK, Europe, Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Rashda has worked as counsel in a number of international jurisdictions, including London, Australia, New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and China, on both litigious and arbitrated matters. Rashda also has significant experience in a senior in-house role as General Counsel at one of the world’s leading project management, design and construction companies operating in more than 30 countries worldwide. As GC, she was involved in a number of high-profile international projects, the development of business in Asia, the acquisition and integration of another major group of companies, the Group’s financing arrangements on a number of PPPs involving numerous overlapping institutional stakeholders’ interests and led the team on a range of major disputes. An experienced CEDR-accredited mediator, Rashda has conducted mediations across the globe. She has been appointed as an arbitrator in a large number of domestic and international commercial arbitrations, both institutional and ad hoc. Areas of law Commercial Litigation Commercial Litigation Rashda has extensive experience in representing and advising local and international clients in a broad range of: Contentious and non-contentious multi-party matters, including joint venture and partnership disputes Major commercial, banking, insolvency, maritime, insurance, tax, regulatory and construction & infrastructure litigation, arbitration and mediation involving wide-ranging issues Cross-border insolvency and restructuring work, including fraud, receiverships, asset tracing and corporate recovery, including a considerable number of distressed funds matters: acting for liquidators, directors, fund managers, creditors and investors of failed investment funds Appointments ICSID Panel of Conciliators, appointed by the Chairman of the World Bank Adjunct Professor teaching law at Sydney University Law School, devising the undergraduate course in international commercial arbitration, which was the first of its kind in Australia Memberships Co-founder of The Alliance for Equality in Dispute Resolution Past President of ArbitralWomen Founding Secretary of Society of Construction Law Australia (SoCLA) First female President of the Australian Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Awards Finalist BSN Awards, Diversity Champion 2018 Legal 500 Asia Pacific Rankings 2016 & 2017 (English Bar) Leading Commercial Silk Leading Construction Silk Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2016 & 2017: Leading Lawyer UK Bar “incredibly innovative”, “has a no-nonsense approach” Who’s Who of Australian Women 2017 Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens Register 2016 (1 of only 500 women)