Julian’s practice focuses principally on general commercial litigation. He represents plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of business disputes from inception through trial and appeal, and has appeared in numerous state and federal courts. He has handled matters involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, indemnification, tortious interference, post-judgment collection, complex construction disputes, and theft of trade secrets.

Julian’s clients have included private equity firms, financial services companies, family offices, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and real estate firms, among others. He began his career at Public Citizen Litigation Group in Washington, D.C., where he worked on matters involving consumer class actions, grand jury secrecy, the Federal Arbitration Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Julian then worked at an international law firm in New York City and a small litigation firm in New Jersey.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Represented private equity investor as trial counsel in a derivative suit in New York state court for breach of fiduciary duty, securing a $21.7 million judgment, and in post-judgment discovery and enforcement matters

• Represented broker-dealer in New Jersey state court case alleging tortious interference with prospective advantage

• Represented broker-dealer in Delaware Chancery court case involving claims for indemnification, breach of contract, and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing

• Represented real estate development firm in contract disputes in federal courts in New York and Ohio

• Represented system of hospitals and other health care facilities in breach-of-contract suit in New York state court

• Represented directors of private equity firm portfolio company in connection with proceedings in bankruptcy court in the Southern District of Florida

• Represented pharmaceutical manufacturer in litigation against FDA in federal court in New York, challenging on First Amendment and other grounds regulations governing pharmaceutical manufacturers’ truthful, non-misleading speech

• Represented subcontractors and suppliers of building materials as plaintiffs in breach-of-contract and lien-foreclosure actions against general contractors and property owners in New Jersey state court

• Represented international financial services firm in state and federal investigations, and as a non-party in civil litigation in federal court in California, concerning residential mortgage-backed securities

PUBLICATIONS

• Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, Adam Stein and Julian Helisek, “Against Convergence: Mounting a Legal Challenge to FASB’s Adoption of International Accounting Standards,” Bloomberg Law Reports (February 2012)

• “The Fault, Dear PCAOB, Lies Not in the Appointments Clause, but in the Removal Power, That You Are Unconstitutional,” 77 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1063 (2009)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

New York County Lawyers’ Association

New Jersey State Bar Association

EDUCATION

The George Washington University Law School (J.D., with Honors, 2009; The George Washington Law Review, Articles Editor )

The London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc., with Distinction, 2005)

University of Pennsylvania (B.A., magna cum laude, 2003)

ADMISSIONS

New York

New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey