Rashda is currently the General Counsel for Bovis Lend Lease, which is one of the world’s leading project management, design and construction companies operating in more than 30 countries worldwide and employing over 7,500 employees. 

She is a former barrister who worked at the Bar in London and also in various states in Australia (primarily in NSW).  She has practiced for nearly 20 years as an advocate.  Rashda has advised on and conducted major commercial, maritime and construction & infrastructure litigation, arbitration and mediation involving wide ranging issues.  She has advised and appeared in all stages of curial and arbitral proceedings from initiation (or defence) of the dispute through to all types of interlocutory processes, trial, appeal and enforcement.  In most of these proceedings she has managed large teams of lawyers comprising junior counsel, solicitors and paralegals.

As well as her litigious practice, Rashda has undertaken non-contentious work in drafting, reviewing and settling major project documentation including Defence contracts (Class 1 submarines), infrastructure (roads and tunnels) and banking and finance documentation (prospectuses and insurance policies).

Rashda has built a reputation as an astute and formidable lawyer and enjoys the respect of many of her peers in England, Australia and in other jurisdictions in South East Asia.  Her reputation has resulted in her appointment as Adjunct Professor teaching international commercial arbitration at Sydney University Law School. She devised the course and it is the first of its kind in Australia. 

Rashda is an active member of a number of significant industry associations.  She is the Australian representative to the ICC Taskforce on Subcontracting and the ICC Taskforce on Public Procurement. She is, inter alia, the Founding Member and the current Secretary of the newly formed Society of Construction Law, Australia, a Fellow and Director of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), Fellow of Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia (IAMA), Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and Fellow of Commercial Law Association of Australia (CLAA).

Rashda is a trained mediator and has been appointed as arbitrator in a number of arbitrations. 

Rashda will be presenting a session entitled "Keeping it in-house: Focusing on the increasing strengths of in-house counsel" at the Sydney masterclass on 19 October.