She advises on a wide range of regulatory and compliance matters including U.S. sanctions programs (including those administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury), sustainability and ESG, potential anti-bribery/corruption/money laundering issues, corporate reporting and disclosure, governance and risk management, international economic law, and international climate law. She also advises private and State clients in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, both ad hoc and under the ICSID, ICC, AAA, and ICDR, rules, and in enforcement of arbitral award litigations before U.S. state and federal courts.
During law school, Alara served as an extern for the U.S. Department of Treasury General Counsel’s Office for International Affairs through University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Legislative Clinic Program. She also competed in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.
Alara maintains an active pro bono practice, representing clients in immigration proceedings and advising human rights advocacy organizations on international and domestic matters relating to racial discrimination, wrongful arrest and inhumane detention, and freedom of speech.
Advisory and regulatory
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Corporate and M&A
Disputes
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Legal innovation
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- Data privacy and data protection
- Environmental
- Family office
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- Funds and asset management
- Global employment and compensation
- Private client
- Public company advisory and corporate governance
- Restructuring, insolvency and capital solutions
- Sanctions and international trade
- Tax
- White-collar defense and global investigations
- ALL ADVISORY AND REGULATORY
- Asset finance
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- Derivatives
- Emerging growth
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- Fund liquidity solutions
- Global employment and compensation
- Insurance
- Islamic finance
- Markets Innovation Group
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- Real estate
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- Sovereign debt
- Structured finance, securitizations and CLOs
- Sustainable finance
- Tax
- ALL CAPITAL MARKETS
- Administrative and public law
- Antitrust
- Artificial intelligence
- Business and human rights
- Complex commercial transactions
- Cybersecurity
- Data privacy and data protection
- Digital assets
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- Foreign direct investment and CFIUS
- Global employment and compensation
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
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- Project development and finance
- Public company advisory and corporate governance
- Real estate
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- Sanctions and international trade
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- ALL CORPORATE AND M&A
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- Business and human rights
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- Cybersecurity
- Data privacy and data protection
- Digital assets
- Environmental
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- Global employment and compensation
- Intellectual property
- International arbitration
- Insurance
- M&A litigation
- Political law
- Project development and finance
- Public company advisory and corporate governance
- Restructuring, insolvency and capital solutions
- Sanctions and international trade
- Securities litigation and enforcement
- Tax
- White-collar defense and global investigations
- ALL DISPUTES
- Asset finance
- Derivatives
- Emerging growth
- Emerging markets finance
- Financial services advisory and regulatory
- Funds and asset management
- Fund liquidity solutions
- Global loans and structured debt solutions
- Insurance
- Islamic finance
- Leveraged finance and high yield
- Project development and finance
- Real estate
- Restructuring, insolvency and capital solutions
- Sovereign debt
- Structured finance, securitizations and CLOs
- Sustainable finance
- Tax
- Trade commodity and export credit finance
- ALL FINANCE
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