Profile

Rashda is a commercial & construction/infrastructure lawyer with over 25 years' experience in the legal profession. She has worked as counsel and arbitrator in a number of international jurisdictions including London, Australia, New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and China and under a variety of institutional and ad hoc rules. She has also held the role of General Counsel for a major global property development and construction company.

She has advised on and conducted major commercial, banking, maritime, insurance, tax, regulatory and construction & infrastructure litigation, arbitration and mediation involving wide ranging issues.

As well as her litigious practice, Rashda has undertaken non-contentious work in drafting, reviewing and settling major project documentation. Her transactional work has included Defence contracts (Class 1 submarines), infrastructure (rail, roads and tunnels), banking and finance documentation (prospectuses and insurance policies), standard forms such as FIDIC as well as PPP transactional documentation.

Rashda has also been Adjunct Professor of Law at Sydney University Law School, teaching the undergraduate course in international commercial arbitration which she devised and which was the first of its kind in Australia.

Rashda is an active member of a number of significant industry associations, including Past President of ArbitralWomen and a Past President of the Australian Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). Rashda is Chair of the CIArb Examination Board and has also been responsible for the overhaul and development of the new CIArb Pathway Courses in Arbitration (Modules 1, 2 and 3).

Rashda is an experienced CEDR accredited mediator and has conducted a large number of mediations concerning a variety of legal issues. She was recently appointed to the ICSID Panel of Conciliators by the President of the World Bank Group.