Katherine Rumer

Katherine Rumer advises on a range of civil and criminal matters and has experience in litigation, arbitration and transnational law. Katherine maintains an active pro bono practice focusing on civil rights and has also worked to support anti-corruption constitutional reforms in Mexico. She brings experience from her time working in the litigation and capital markets practices of another major international law firm and clerking in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Katherine speaks Spanish and is conversational in Portuguese and Greek.

Work highlights

• International and domestic companies and underwriters: advised on a range of equity and debt transactions.
• A U.S. military veteran: advised in connection with an appeal to upgrade discharge status.

Katherine interned at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and was a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico City. She has spent significant time working and studying abroad, including stints in Argentina, Colombia and Ghana.

Katherine received her Juris Doctor cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Global Law Scholar, an Institute of International Economic Law Fellow, and a CALI Award recipient. While at Georgetown, she was also a member of the Barristers’ Council (Alternative Dispute Resolution Division), an Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law, and participated in the Policy Clinic as well as the Guantanamo Observers Program. Katherine also holds a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude in International Politics from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.