Amanda Raad

Practice Areas

Amanda Raad serves as a trusted advisor to clients seeking wide-ranging counsel on global and cross-border risk. Qualified in the United States and as a Solicitor in England & Wales, she leverages her extensive knowledge and experience of these active enforcement regimes to help clients navigate risk from both jurisdictions. In summary of her practice, clients note she “counsels and advises with intelligence and caution and has tremendous credibility with regulators.” Amanda was named one of the “top ten legal practitioners” in the recent Financial Times Innovative Lawyers report.

Health care enterprises, life sciences companies, private equity firms, sovereign investors and organizations involved in corporate transactions are among the clients that turn to Amanda for advice on specific U.S. and U.K. enforcement matters and related investigations, as well as for guidance in creating compliant cultures. Clients describe her as “incredibly tactical,” and note that her “particular strength is providing practical, actionable legal advice.”

As founder of Ropes & Gray’s Data and Behavioral Science Initiative, Amanda is a leader in the use of data analytics and behavioral science to help organizations establish compliance-driven cultures, effectively manage global risk, and implement remediation solutions as necessary. Leveraging this unique approach to compliance, Amanda also launched R&G’s Insights Lab, an innovative, full service legal consulting group – and the industry’s first-ever analytics and behavioural science offering. As co-leader, Amanda works closely with a multidisciplinary team of internal and external collaborators to design creative, data-driven and human-centered solutions for our clients’ most significant legal and business challenges. Her work addresses the full risk spectrum, encompassing:

Financial fraud

Corruption

Sanctions

Money laundering

Cyber and data privacy risk

Antitrust compliance

Sexual misconduct

In light of the financial devastation caused by the COVID-19 crisis, Amanda has been partnering with clients to reassess their risk and help them take proactive steps to ensure the effectiveness of their business solutions in a changing and challenging environment.

Global co-leader of Ropes & Gray’s anti-corruption and international risk practice, Amanda also co-founded the firm’s fraud in times of crisis task force, as well as the firm’s global health care compliance initiative. She publishes and speaks frequently on cross-border challenges in the areas of corporate crime and investigations, including those associated with sexual misconduct. She is a regular contributor to GIR’s “The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations,” and serves as a committee member for the American Bar Association’s Women’s White Collar Defense Association and the U.K.’s Fraud Lawyers Association. Amanda is listed in GIR’s Women in Investigations 2018, Chambers UK, The Legal 500 UK and New York Super Lawyers.

Deeply committed to pro bono work, Amanda co-chairs Ropes & Gray’s pro bono committee. Since 2016, she has served on the board of Lawyers Without Borders.

Professional Memberships

Qualifications

England and Wales, Solicitor, 2016

Illinois, 2005

New York, 2012

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, 2005

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2012