Amanda Raad

Amanda Raad is co-head of Ropes & Gray’s award-winning global anti-corruption and international risk and crisis management & investigations practices and a leading lawyer, innovator, and thought leader on global crisis management. With more than 20 years of experience, she guides clients through criminal enforcement actions, regulatory matters, and internal investigations. She also helps clients build best-in-class compliance programs and assess risk. Amanda co-founded R&G Insights Lab, a Financial Times award-winning differentiated offering that blends world-class legal services with data analytics and behavioral insights to address some of the most complex challenges facing businesses today.

Clients describe Amanda as “technically brilliant, commercially astute and hugely responsive,” in Chambers UK. She is also known as a deft tactician who has deep credibility with regulators. Qualified in the U.S. and as a Solicitor in England & Wales, Amanda represents multinational clients across every major industry sector in sensitive global matters involving allegations of financial fraud, corruption, sanctions and export control violations, money laundering, cybersecurity and data privacy issues, antitrust violations, and sexual misconduct. Amanda also has experience counseling clients on crisis management, including with respect to issues that have the potential for significant reputational harm and that call for fast action. She also regularly works with clients to develop compliance programs that address corruption, trade compliance, money laundering, and ESG risks.

Amanda publishes and speaks frequently on cross-border challenges in the areas of compliance, culture, corporate crime, and investigations. Notably, Amanda co-hosts the firm’s Culture & Compliance Chronicles podcast series, exploring the constantly evolving challenges faced by professionals worldwide in managing risk and compliance. She also serves as co-chair of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA) Annual Meeting and helped launch WWCDA’s Annual Global Enforcement & Compliance Best Practices Series.

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

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