Robert A. Julian has more than 35 years of experience resolving high stakes disputes for his clients in complex litigation involving multiple parties and claims, breach of fiduciary duty cases and related corporate investigations, with an emphasis on such cases in an insolvency setting.
In the past several years, Robert has successfully defended more than $1 billion in five cases, and supervised the recovery of more than $500 million in plaintiffs’ cases for his clients.
He has substantial experience with issues that arise in troubled company settings, including fiduciary duty and agency disputes; insider control; director, officer, and professional liability claims, and related authority issues; direct vs. derivative shareholder claim ownership disputes; treatment of insurance coverage; fraudulent and preferential conveyances; joint venture disputes; pension claim disputes; disguised loan and other property of the bankruptcy estate disputes; alter ego and equitable remedies; lender-debtor disputes; mandatory and equitable subordination claims; right to jury trial and bankruptcy jurisdiction battles; resolution of plaintiff claims in bankruptcy; withdrawal of the reference; centralization of tort claims in the bankruptcy and district courts; abstention over claims in favor of state court; and insurance receivership disputes; and bank and bank holding company failures.
Experience :
- In Cayman Islands and Delaware litigation, obtained full indemnification of client’s $125 million liability and litigation costs in case filed against fund auditors and manager.
- Obtained state court judgment enforcing consultant’s right to arbitrate contract dispute and Court of Appeal affirmance of judgment.
- Settled shareholder derivative claims against holding company directors, and represented directors in resolution of FDIC claims and resulting government investigation.
- Achieved favorable outcome while defending officer of failed property mortgage insurance company on trade secret claims.
- Represented litigation trustee in derivative suit against former directors and officers of failed sub-prime lender on breach of fiduciary duty claims, recovering $30 million for the trustee and the creditor estate.
- Successfully defended client against a claim filed for a share of a $600 million estate and an insurance policy that defended such claims, after the probate estate was distributed and closed.
- Represented a paint trade association in a two-week trial over the constitutionality of a $20 million annual state regulatory fee, successfully obtaining a judgment upholding the assessment as a valid regulatory fee.
- Defended director of a failed Silicon Valley firm in a $50 million lawsuit regarding breach of duty to creditors while in the “zone of insolvency,” resulting in the California Court of Appeal’s first published decision on the duties of directors in the “zone of insolvency.”
- As lead insolvency litigation counsel, valued and structured out of court settlement matrix for resolution of asbestos claims against asbestos product manufacturer.
- Represented university in litigation over a fiduciary duty-accounting and commercial dispute involving health care premiums. Obtained full recovery for university after six-months of litigation.
- Recovered 100 percent of university’s losses from energy brokers on breach of fiduciary duty claims arising out of the university’s sale of energy in the California market.
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