Experts & Advisors
Julian Honowitz
Managing Director
Julian Honowitz is a Managing Director at Ankura and has over 12 years of experience providing expertise in litigation consulting. He has testified on matters involving economic damages in oil and gas, 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 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 value of an exploration and production contract in Ecuador.
- 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
