Julie Goodrich Harrison
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
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Biography
Julie's practice is focused on financial restructuring and insolvency matters, including complex commercial bankruptcy and litigation cases. Julie has represented a wide range of clients, including debtors, creditors' committees, trustees, landlords, and secured and unsecured creditors. Julie has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial litigation matters in federal courts, primarily in Texas.
Professional experience
Collapse allJD, magna cum laude, University of Houston Law Center, 2014
BA, honors, Mathematics, Rice University, 2010
- Texas State Bar
Some examples of Julie's prior experience include:
Debtor Representation:
- Debtor's counsel to Texas's oldest and largest generation and transmission electric cooperative, a 4,000 megawatt generation and transmission cooperative, whose members' service territory extends across 68 counties from the Texas Panhandle to Houston encompassing over 1.5 million Texans
- Debtors' co-counsel to a leading food and beverage company and the largest processor and direct-to-store distributor of fresh fluid milk and other dairy and dairy case products in the United States
- Debtors' co-counsel to a land-based drilling and production services provider operating in the United States and Colombia, in its prepackaged chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of Texas
- Debtors' counsel to one of the largest providers of frac material logistics, onshore/offshore cleaning services, and drilling fluid sales based in Texas and Louisiana; chapter 11 cases were recognized by the 2019 Turnaround Atlas Awards as the Energy Restructuring of the Year (Mid-Market)
- Debtor's counsel to a publicly traded patient-centered healthcare organization that includes fully operational hospitals and freestanding emergency rooms in Arizona, Colorado, and Texas
- Debtor's counsel to a Texas hospital district in its chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy case
Committee Representation:
- Co-counsel to the unsecured creditors' committee of a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, osteoarthritis and autoimmune diseases.
- Co-counsel to the unsecured creditors' committee of one of the largest publicly-traded oil and gas exploration and production companies in the United States, with interests in approximately 13,700 gross wells, approximately 5,193,000 gross acres of developed leasehold, undeveloped leasehold, and fee minerals in the aggregate, and estimated proved reserves of approximately 988 million barrels of oil equivalent (operating primarily in the Marcellus Shale, the Haynesville/Bossier Shale, the Eagle Ford Shale, Brazos Valley, the Powder River Basin, and the Mid-Continent/Anadarko Basin)
- Co-counsel to the unsecured creditors' committee of a London-based leading provider of offshore drilling services with over $7.1 billion of funded debt
- Co-counsel to the unsecured creditors' committee to one of the largest leading omni-channel specialty retailer of menswear, including suits, formalwear and a broad selection of business casual offerings in the company's restructuring of its over $2.4 billion in debt
- Counsel to the unsecured creditors' committee of a publicly owned Colorado exploration and production company with properties in the Rocky Mountain and mid-continent portion of the United States
Other Representation:
- Counsel to secured lender and DIP lender of a national prison healthcare contractor
- Counsel to secured lender and DIP lender of a national "eatertainment" restaurant chain
- Counsel to liquidating trustee appointed pursuant to a confirmed plan of reorganization in retail case
- Counsel to chapter 11 trustee appointed for a midstream oil and gas company focused on developing, constructing, and operating assets to transport and process natural gas liquids
- Counsel to Canadian appointed monitor and foreign representative of eight heavy haul transportation and crane solutions providers in Chapter 15 cases commenced in the Southern District of Texas
- Counsel to an ad hoc committee of noteholders holding nearly $834 million in unsecured notes in connection with a publicly-traded, independent oil and natural gas company that commenced bankruptcy proceedings in the Southern District of Texas
- Counsel to numerous parties in preference and fraudulent transfer actions throughout the United States
- Counsel to numerous secured and unsecured creditors in prosecuting, defending, and settling claims in bankruptcy cases throughout the United States
Other Litigation Experience:
- Counsel to non-profit organization defending against putative class action alleging breach of contract
- Counsel to former officers and directors of a subsidiary to a Spanish conglomerate that engaged in the construction of infrastructure for motorways, toll roads, and high speed railway lines as well as construction, development, engineering, civil work, supply and installation of buildings, electrochemical equipment and electrical installation projects, in defense of a breach of fiduciary duty action
- Counsel to former officers and directors of a for-profit, general acute care hospital in defense of three separate actions alleging breaches of fiduciary duties, preferential transfers and fraudulent transfers; the cases each ultimately settled favorably for the firm's clients
- Pro Bono Counsel to students and a student organization at Prairie View A&M University in Voting Rights Act litigation before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- Pro Bono Counsel to a death row inmate convicted of capital murder, where trial court found that client should not be executed because of intellectual disability; case continues on appeal
- Pro Bono Counsel to inmate in Civil Rights litigation against prison guards before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas; case successfully settled in mediation
- The Best Lawyers in America - Ones to Watch, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Best Lawyers, 2021 - 2025
- Women in the Law, Ones to Watch, Best Lawyers, 2021, 2022
- Texas Rising Star, Bankruptcy: Business, Thomson Reuters, 2022 - 2023
- Legal 500 US, key lawyer, Finance-restructuring (including bankruptcy)-corporate, 2022
- Pro Bono All Star, Norton Rose Fulbright, 2018, 2019, 2021
- Jaworski Award for Pro Bono Excellence, Norton Rose Fulbright, 2021
- Make-whole provisions: Impact of the Hertz and Ultra Petroleum decisions in US chapter 11 cases (January 2023).
- Latest airline restructuring news - Avianca Brazil - What happens in Cape Town stays in Cape Town (April 2019)
- Comment, Driving Miss Daisy: An Autonomous Chauffeur System, 51 Hous. L. Rev. 265, 2013
- 42nd Annual Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference, "Insurance and Surety Bonds" (Nov. 16, 2023)
- 2023 State Bar of Texas Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference, “Talen Energy: Settlements, Releases, and Exculpations” (June 5, 2023)
- American Bankruptcy Institute and Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors’ VALCON 2023 Conference, “Corporate Valuation: Before, During and Post-Pandemic” (May 2, 2023)
- Turnaround Management Association Breakfast Meeting, “Winter Storm Uri Two Years Later: A Look Back at the Brazos Electric Bankruptcy Case and Other Uri-Related Bankruptcy Filings” (April 12, 2023)
- 40th Annual Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference, "Claim Objections Done Right" (Nov. 19, 2021)
- Houston Young Lawyers Association
- Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program, providing representation to pro bono clients.
- Chair of Houston Network of International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) (2018, 2019)
- Board Member of Houston Network of International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) (2018-2024)
- National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) NextGen Program, Participant, 2021
- National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) NextGen Program, Committee Member, 2022-2024
- Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
Insights
Chinese property developer Sunac receives Chapter 15 recognition
Publication | Q1 2024
Impact of the Hertz and Ultra Petroleum decisions in US chapter 11 cases
Publication | Q1 2023