Ivana Cingel

Associate

Ivana Cingel is an associate in O’Melveny’s San Francisco office and a member of the International Arbitration Practice.  Ivana’s practice focuses on international commercial arbitration and litigation and complex civil litigation.

Ivana has been involved in international commercial arbitrations before the International Chamber of Commerce and the German Institution of Arbitration, as well as a domestic commercial arbitration before the American Arbitration Association.

Ivana recently helped win a full dismissal for a European bank in an action involving a US$50 million damages claim; helped obtain a court order on behalf of a global engineering and construction company blocking a South American state from wrongfully drawing down on a letter of credit; and helped advise a high-level Japanese executive concerning extradition from Japan in connection with a DOJ Antitrust Division investigation.  Ivana also recently represented, pro bono, a plaintiff in a civil rights action against a school district and helped obtain a precedent-setting settlement and wide-ranging injunctive relief. 

Her substantive areas of experience include pharmaceutical, corporate, antitrust, extradition and complex procedural matters.  Ivana was previously employed as an associate with an international law firm in New York where she worked on a United States Supreme Court case concerning the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and the enforceability of judgments of the International Court of Justice in United States courts.

Professional Activities

Law Clerk,  Honorable John T. Noonan Jr., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Teaching Assistant,  Civil Procedure, Yale Law School
Languages,  Spanish; Bosnian; Croatian; Serbian
Co-author,  “Year in Review — International Commercial Dispute Resolution”, The International Lawyer (Summer 2008); “Year in Review — International Commercial Dispute Resolution”, The International Lawyer (Summer 2009)