Randa Adra is a counsel in the New York office of Crowell & Moring, where she practices in the firm's International Dispute Resolution and Litigation groups. Randa works on complex dispute resolution matters for domestic and multi-national companies from a broad spectrum of industries.
In her practice, Randa represents clients in both international and domestic disputes, including arbitration and litigation matters, class actions, and multidistrict proceedings. Randa has represented clients in international commercial and investment arbitration matters involving disputes between corporations and against foreign sovereign governments, as well as related enforcement proceedings. She has counseled parties on disputes in the construction, hospitality, shipping, logistics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and energy sectors, among others.
In addition, Randa maintains an active pro bono practice, primarily focusing on representing clients in asylum and refugee resettlement proceedings. She also represents dozens of low-income tenants in a NY State action bringing claims of fraudulent rent overcharges.
Randa earned her J.D. with specialization in international legal affairs from Cornell Law School, with an additional concentration in business law and regulation. After her first year of law school, she spent two months in Paris studying international and comparative law at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. While in law school, she served as a managing editor of Cornell's International Law Journal. In addition, Randa sat on the executive boards of both the law school's student government and the graduate and professional student assembly. Outside of law school, Randa served as a graduate teacher's assistant at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Prior to law school, Randa lived in Beirut, Lebanon, where she received her B.A., with distinction, in economics and a minor in political studies from the American University of Beirut.
Representative Engagements
International Dispute Resolution
- Represents a multinational joint venture in a $1.2 billion commercial arbitration against an Egyptian state agency under the ICC Rules of Arbitration.
- Represents a Russian investor in a $100 million UNCITRAL arbitration against the State of Kuwait.
- Represents a Middle Eastern company in a $40 million shareholder dispute with a Hong Kong company under the ICC Rules of Arbitration.
- Represented an Egyptian consortium and Kuwaiti supply chain management company in an $80 million ICC commercial arbitration brought by a South Korean supplier.
- Represented a major international hotel company in an ICC commercial arbitration governed by U.S. and Lebanese law.
- Represented a Canadian uranium mining company in its effort to enforce an international arbitration award against the Government of Mongolia.
- Represented an American hotel investor in an ICSID arbitration against the Arab Republic of Egypt under the U.S.-Egypt BIT.
Domestic Dispute Resolution
- Represents a multinational corporation in connection with a class action litigation and criminal antitrust investigation related to the pharmaceutical industry.
- Successfully represented a major international hotel company in defense of claims governed by U.S. and Lebanese law stemming from an international arbitration.
- In re Titanium Dioxide Antitrust Litigation: Successfully represented DuPont in defense of Sherman Act Section 1 class action and opt-out litigation alleging conspiracy to fix the price of titanium dioxide. Successfully represented DuPont in a subsequent Third Circuit appeal.
- Counseled corporations in various multimillion-dollar acquisitions, including Flowers Foods’ $355 million acquisition of the Hostess bread assets, and AT&T Inc.’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Leap Wireless.
Affiliations
Admitted to practice: New York, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Memberships
American Bar Association – International Section, Young Lawyers Division
New York City Bar Association – MENA Committee; Associate Leadership Institute Fellow (2018)
Arab Bankers Association of North America
Lebanese International Finance Executives (LIFE)
Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice (Advisory Board)
Awards
Empire State Counsel for Pro Bono Service, multiple years
Publications
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