Rayhan Langdana is a senior associate in Quinn Emanuel’s London office. He joined the firm in 2023. Rayhan graduated from the University of Auckland in 2018 with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts. He obtained a Master of Laws from the University of California, Berkeley (Dean's List), which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar. Rayhan was admitted to practice in New Zealand in 2017.
Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel, Rayhan practiced litigation at one of New Zealand’s leading law firms, and was a junior barrister at New Zealand’s leading set of Chambers. He has experience acting and advising on a broad range of matters, including contractual disputes, warranty claims, criminal proceeds litigation, fair trading and consumer protection disputes, intellectual property issues, equitable claims, and professional misconduct claims. He has appeared (as counsel or junior counsel) at various levels of the New Zealand court system, in specialist tribunals, and in alternative dispute resolution forums.
- University of California, Berkeley
(LL.M., 2023)- Pro Bono Honors (Highest Distinction), 2023
- Dean's List
- University of Auckland
- (LL.B, honours, B.A., History and Politics, 2018)
Barrister & Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (Practicing under the direct supervision of a member of The Bar of England and Wales)
- False and Misleading Political Speech: A Normative Case for Regulation 98 Tulane Law Review (2023-24) (forthcoming).
- Expert witness evidence in New Zealand [2021] New Zealand Law Journal 206.
- Who Owns Your Cells? A Theoretical Examination of Property Rights over Human Genetic Material (2017) 23 Auckland University Law Review 269.