Anwar is a litigator who represents clients in both state and federal courts. His main focus has been advising financial institutions and sovereign entities in complex litigations brought under the US Anti-Terrorism Act and Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). He has also provided investment arbitration advice to sovereigns.
During law school, Anwar was an Articles Editor on the California Law Review and the Berkeley Journal of International Law. Anwar also interned in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for the Honorable Katherine Polk Failla. Anwar attended the University of Pennsylvania for his undergraduate degree where his thesis in history won the Phi Beta Kappa prize for best thesis in any field of study that year. Prior to law school, he worked as a management consultant.
Anwar has extensive experience in different cultures, having lived in 8 cities in 6 countries. He is also fluent in Arabic.
