Vasundhara Ziemba-Prasad

Vasundhara Ziemba-Prasad is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Boston office, where she specializes in high-stakes international disputes, including white-collar criminal defense, government enforcement matters, and complex civil litigation. 

Vasundhara represents clients in white-collar and government enforcement proceedings spanning the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.  She is a member of the firm’s India Disputes Practice and regularly handles matters involving the U.S. federal, state, and local authorities, foreign governments, and international organizations.  Her practice also includes a broad range of civil disputes in federal and state courts across the United States, as well as arbitral proceedings worldwide.  Recognized by Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation, Vasundhara has experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants at trial and on appeal. 

Vasundhara also maintains an active pro bono practice representing, among others, clients in crisis facing domestic violence, for which she received the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Foundation’s Nery J. Arrano Award in 2021.

Prior to joining the firm in 2025, Vasundhara worked as a litigation associate at another international law firm for over five years.  There, she represented clients in the airline, pharmaceutical, financial services, insurance and other industries in a wide range of complex civil litigation and government and regulatory investigations. 

Vasundhara graduated with honors from Boston College Law School, where she served as the Editor in Chief of the Boston College Law Review and received the Cornelius J. Moynihan Award for Outstanding Editorial Work on Publications.  During law school, she interned for the Honorable Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Honorable Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. 

Before law school, Vasundhara taught 7th grade Mathematics in Chelsea, Massachusetts through Teach for America, where she received the Heiser Tran Award for excellence in teaching and teamwork, and the regional nomination for the Sue Lehmann Award, given to the highest performing second-year corps member nationally.