Bio

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.