Matheson LLP

Partner and co-head of Matheson’s Disputes and Investigations Group

Julie is a partner and co-head of Matheson’s Disputes and Investigations Group in Matheson.

Julie advises on a wide range of contentious matters including corporate, commercial, aviation and financial services disputes and investigations as well as governance, including in regulated sectors.  She specialises in cross-border disputes and fraud, asset recovery, enforcement and jurisdictional issues.

Julie has significant expertise in shareholder disputes and contentious corporate restructuring and insolvency matters (for which she was ranked for many years) and regularly advises in relation to directors’ duties, corporate governance and risk.

Julie is a CEDR accredited mediator.  She was appointed to the Council of the Irish Commercial Mediation Association in 2019.  She is a Certified Banking Director and a non-executive director of Dell Bank International DAC, where she also chairs its Remuneration and Nominations Committee.   Julie was a non-executive director of Irish Semi-State company, Coillte DAC, from 2013 to 2022, by ministerial appointment, and chaired its Remuneration Committee.

Julie is co-author of the Commercial Litigation Association of Ireland’s Practitioners’ Guide to the Commercial Court in Ireland and of the Law Society of Ireland’s Insolvency Law textbook.  She is a frequent contributor to Irish and international legal publications and is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences.

Julie was named Client Choice Award Winner for Asset Recovery (Ireland) in 2020.

Qualified as a solicitor in Ireland; Academy of Private International Law, the Netherlands; Leiden University, the Netherlands (Erasmus); Trinity College Dublin (LLB).