Julia D. Harper

Julia’s current and former representations include:

• Honeywell International in a putative securities class action and derivative litigation filed in New Jersey and Delaware federal courts concerning Honeywell’s accounting for asbestos-related liabilities.
• Honeywell employee / former officer of Garrett Motion, Inc., defended and won full dismissal in 2022 of putative securities class action in New York federal court arising out of Honeywell's spin-off of Garrett and its accounting for asbestos-related liabilities.
• H.I.G. Capital and Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. in the defense of trade secret litigation brought by TransPerfect Global, Inc., arising from H.I.G. and Lionbridge’s participation as a bidder in the auction sale of TransPerfect.
• HGGC and one of its affiliated funds in a putative class action filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery arising from its $446 million take-private acquisition of Nutraceutical International Corporation.
• FirstFire Capital in litigation with DarkPulse Inc. in New York federal court and the Delaware Court of Chancery concerning a defaulted note. Defeated a preliminary injunction motion in New York in 2022.
• Fox Corporation and certain former officers and directors of Twenty-First Century Fox, including Rupert Murdoch and his sons, in a shareholder derivative lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery arising out of 21st Century Fox’s $73 billion merger with The Walt Disney Corporation and the separation of Fox Corporation.
• The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Taubman Centers in litigation filed in Michigan state court related to the purported termination by Simon Property Group of its $9.8 billion merger and joint venture with Taubman.
• Brookfield Asset Management, LLC and its affiliates in class action litigation in New York federal court arising from its offer to take Teekay Offshore private.