Anand V. Ramana

Anand Ramana is a trial and appellate advocate who helps domestic and international businesses resolve their most difficult disputes.

His primary goal is to leverage the law and the facts to secure favorable settlements, but his passion is to provide experienced and sophisticated advocacy when a dispute must be resolved in court. He starts each case by understanding the client's goals and values, then crafts a strategy to achieve or surpass those goals while staying true to the values. Unlike most litigators, Anand handles cases from intake through appeal, strategizing across the lifespan of the case and seeking to maximize the outcome at every stage.

Based in Washington, D.C., Anand represents mid-market and large companies, many of them government contractors and subcontractors in the intelligence, defense, aerospace, technology, financial services, energy, and real estate industries. He also helps foreign and domestic clients resolve their transnational disputes in federal and state courts across the United States. In addition, his foreign clients call upon him to gather information in the United States for use in foreign proceedings.

Anand handles all kinds of commercial, employment, and regulatory disputes and litigation. His commercial work ranges from small payment discrepancies to multiparty bet-the-company litigation. He helps companies enforce non-compete agreements and protect their confidential and proprietary business information. He frequently challenges the federal government’s withholding of public information, agency rules, and administrative decisions under the Freedom of Information Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and other statutes. As pro bono lead for Vedder’s Washington, D.C., office, he dedicates substantial time to representing human trafficking survivors in federal civil litigation.

Experience

*Includes, in some cases, Anand's previous experience.

• Defended a government contractor against a 24-plaintiff WARN Act and FLSA lawsuit in a Virginia federal court. Achieved a defense verdict on the FLSA claim at trial and secured a reversal of an erroneous district court judgment on the WARN Act claim on appeal, resulting in a total victory for the client.
• Represented the founders of a California steel manufacturing business in a $20 million AAA arbitration over the failure of a private equity buyer to pay an adjusted price under a purchase agreement. Leveraged an important expert deposition to reach a favorable settlement for the client.
• Defended a large Romanian telecommunications company in judgment enforcement proceedings in a Virginia federal court. Led a team that persuaded the court to vacate a 10-year-old multimillion-dollar judgment against the client.
• Represented a large Luxembourgish international real estate conglomerate in federal court proceedings to gather discovery for use in an English court under 28 U.S.C. § 1782. Successfully petitioned the court to authorize all requested discovery on a short time frame.
• Defended a large government contractor against a multimillion-dollar contract lawsuit brought by a subcontractor in Maryland federal court. Filed a separate lawsuit against the subcontractor in the same court and leveraged that claim to achieve a walkaway settlement for the client.
• Defended the chief executive officer of a large Canadian telecommunications corporation in foreign discovery to be used in a U.S. federal court.
• Represented an Emirati government contractor in Virginia state court on a multimillion-dollar contract claim in the Middle East. Secured permanent dismissal of the case through strategic procedural pretrial motions.
• Represented a Kuwaiti food services business in a congressional investigation into the use of private security contractors in combat zones in Iraq. The investigation concluded with no adverse findings against the client.
• Represented a satellite company in successfully enforcing a noncompete agreement against a former high-level employee in Virginia state court.
• Represented two federal government contractors in separate teaming agreement appeals to the Virginia Supreme Court. The two appellate case opinions are the leading authority in Virginia on enforceability of teaming agreements between prime contractors and subcontractors.