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Loura Alaverdi is a skilled and passionate advocate with a practice focus on financial, commercial and international litigation. Loura’s extensive experience includes complex matters involving breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, RICO, business torts, employment discrimination and wrongful termination. Loura is admitted to practice in the states of New York, California and Washington, D.C., and has extensive experience litigating in both state and federal courts.

Loura consistently brings an advocate’s skill, common sense and energy to her practice. Her clients have included executives and directors of privately and publicly held companies, international companies, professional service providers, lobbyists, real estate developers, importers and exporters, individual entrepreneurs, designers, public figures and entertainers.

Representative Matters

• Played a key role in a six-week high profile jury trial in New York defeating $37 million fraud and breach of fiduciary duty claims by Brunei’s sovereign wealth fund and Bruneian prince.
• Advising clients impacted by the LIBOR manipulation scandal regarding potential claims and liabilities.
• Obtained dismissal of the current CEO and former CFO of a publicly traded company in a California lawsuit involving allegations of an international RICO conspiracy and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage.
• Played a lead role in winning a bench trial in California on behalf of a Korean importer suing on claims of breach of contract and fraud.
• Played a lead role in winning a five-week jury trial in California involving claims of employment harassment and discrimination against a national freight-forwarding company.
• Representing the Securities Investor Protection Act Trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.
• Prosecuted claim on behalf of a music entertainer against a clothing manufacturer for misappropriating his name and image.
• Represented a professional skateboarder in negotiating a development agreement with a production company in connection with a pilot.

While in law school, Loura served as an extern to the Honorable Harry Pregerson in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also served as a staff member of the Southwestern Law Review and participated in the Moot Court Honors Program, where she competed in the Wagner Employment Law and the Wechsler First Amendment competitions. Loura is a member of the International Bar Association, California State Bar Association and New York State Bar Association.

Loura is fluent in Aramaic and proficient in Farsi and Armenian.