Julia D. Harper

Julia’s current and former representations include:

• 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.
• Windstream and certain affiliates in connection with an adversary proceeding in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding seeking to recharacterize a $650 million-per-year lease agreement as a disguised financing arrangement.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Various companies in litigations in which bondholders asserted that company transactions, including spin-offs, debt exchanges and intellectual property transfers, breached the company’s credit agreements and/or indentures.