Crowell & Moring LLP

International Dispute Resolution

Partner

When global organizations are facing complex and high-stakes disputes, they turn to Randa Adra as their strategic adviser and partner. Randa guides clients with innovative legal strategies as they navigate all stages of the dispute resolution process, from pre-dispute counseling and risk assessments to arbitration hearings, trial, and enforcement or annulment proceedings. Randa has been nationally and globally recognized by Law360, the American Bar Association, and Bloomberg Law as a rising star in international arbitration.

Randa’s practice focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration under the rules of all major arbitral institutions. She also regularly advises on U.S. arbitration and litigation matters and has particular experience with disputes at the cross-section of these practice areas. Randa leverages her experience as lead counsel on matters spanning a broad spectrum of industries—including health care, pharmaceuticals, construction, infrastructure, energy, hospitality, and consumer products—to provide industry-specific counseling and commercially minded solutions for clients that are both efficient and cost-effective.

Randa is trilingual and currently serves as co-chair of the firm’s Women’s Leadership Initiative. She has also served as a leader on the firm’s Diversity Council and co-founded Crowell’s MENA Affinity Group. An active member in numerous industry organizations, Randa currently serves on the Board of ArabArb, an association she co-founded that serves the arbitration community with roots, affinity, or interest in the Arab World.

Arabic, French

Co-Founder and Board Member, ArabArb  Member, ArbitralWomen American Bar Association International Section Dispute Resolution Section Chair, Women in the Profession Committee, Young Lawyers Division, 2022–2023 ICC Young Arbitration and ADR Forum Representative, North America, 2024–Present Law360 Editorial Board, 2024–Present New York City Bar Association MENA Committee Associate Leadership Institute Fellow, 2018 Planning Committee Member, 2021

American University of Beirut, B.A., with distinction, economics, political studies, 2008

Cornell Law School, J.D., 2012