Contact
email. jstanton@northrock.bm
phone. 1-441-703-7738
Providing Solutions for Local and Offshore Entities
Julie is currently serving as an independent director for a select number of international clients. She is seeking to be involved as a non-executive independent director with high quality entities offering challenging opportunities in transactions in which she can add value.
Some of Julie's directorships include several Bermuda and Cayman Island based funds. She is also a director for a Macquarie Investment Bank private equity fund, specializing in infrastructure investments. Other roles have included acting as an independent non-executive director for a licensed Bermuda trust company, Winchester Global Trust Company and acting as an independent director of a Bermuda law firm BeesMont Law Limited. She is well known to the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
In 2006 Julie relinquished her role as partner in the corporate department of local law firm Cox Hallett Wilkinson. While practicing Julie advised on a broad range of corporate finance transactions including private and public offerings, corporate structuring and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and listings on local and international exchanges. Julie's insurance experience includes the incorporation of a numbers of Class 2 and 3 Bermuda companies, as well as liquidations and shareholder representations. Julie has worked for a number of local law firms including Appleby and Mello Jones and Martin. She was called to the Bermuda Bar in 1994.
Prior to her partnership at Cox Hallett Wilkinson, Julie established Ernst and Young's law alliance practice EY Law and was a partner with Hollis & Co. (the local alliance entity). While practicing Julie was ranked by Chambers Global World's Leading Lawyers as a leader in her field. She also sat for eight years on the Board of the Legislative Change Committee of the Bermuda Development Agency's predecessor, BIBA. She has a keen interest in education, having helped establish the Bermuda Bar Council's continuing legal education program. She also sat on the board of the United World Colleges Bermuda National Committee.
Julie qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales and completed her training with Stephenson Harwood London. She attended Durham University, United Kingdom where she obtained a BA Hons (Law). She is an alumnus of Lester B. Pearson United World College and Warwick Academy Bermuda.
Julie is a UK born Bermudian, residing on Island with her husband and two children.