Experts & Advisors
Julian Honowitz
Managing Director
Julian Honowitz is a Managing Director at Ankura and has over 13 years of experience providing expertise in litigation consulting. He has testified on matters involving economic damages in oil and gas, carbon credits, and digital/crypto assets, including bitcoin and bitcoin miners. Julian has also consulted in numerous engagements spanning multiple industries and continents, including government contracts and concessions, energy, mining, financial claims and securities valuation, international construction, insurance claims, healthcare, wholesale and distribution, international manufacturing, biotech and pharmaceutical, professional services, software, industrial processes, transportation, hospitality and real estate, and telecommunications.
Experience
He has led project teams on matters involving economic damages, business valuation (from Fortune 500 companies through pre-revenue early-stage startups), business interruption, forensic accounting, construction delay and productivity claims, and transfer pricing. Through his engagements, Julian has worked with public and private companies, as well as private clients, across a variety of traditional and alternative dispute resolution forums in national, international, federal, state, and tax court jurisdictions.
Julian has been invited to speak at conferences on the topics of international arbitration, energy transition, production sharing agreements, and crypto assets. He is a co-author of the chapter “The Applicable Valuation Approach” in Global Arbitration Review’s Guide to Damages in International Arbitration.
Some of Julian’s most recent cases include:
- Bitcoin Mining, U.S. (JAMS): Assessed damages and provided expert written and oral testimony in an arbitration as to the lost profits suffered by a bitcoin miner due to breach of contract.
- Oil Production, Ecuador (ICSID): Assessing damages and providing expert written and oral testimony in an investor-state dispute regarding the value of an exploration and production contract in Ecuador.
- Carbon Credits, Indonesia (SIAC): Assessing damages and providing expert written and oral testimony in an investor-state dispute regarding the development of environmental intelligence databases and the issuance of carbon credits in South-East Asia.
- Renewable Energy (California State Court): Led project team in calculation of damages for commercial dispute regarding lost productivity at 21 solar farms across the U.S. related to tracker failures. Damages evaluation isolated lost productivity from trackers using control sites while excluding independent impacts such as weather, grid losses, and unrelated productivity issues.
- Gold Mining, Mexico (ICSID): Led project team for determination of damages in an investor-state dispute involving valuation of a gold mining company in Mexico.
- Renewable Energy, Peru (ICSID): Led project team in calculation of damages for investor-state dispute regarding valuation of a hydroelectric project.
- Government Rail Concession, East Africa (UNCITRAL): Led project team for valuation of damages in an investor-state dispute involving multi-state railroad concessions.
- Education
- MBA, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
- BA, Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
- BA, Spanish Language and Literature, University of California, Berkeley
- Languages
- Spanish
