Julia I. Catania specializes in white collar defense, regulatory investigations, and complex civil litigation. She represents individuals and corporations facing allegations of financial misconduct, including securities and accounting fraud, bribery, embezzlement, and money laundering. She also assists clients in resolving contract disputes and other enterprise-threatening business practices. Her practice spans both federal and state courts, as well as domestic and cross-border matters, including international extradition defense in Latin America and Europe.

Julia is a seasoned litigator and has second chaired two jury trials in the Southern District of New York and argued an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

• Representing a former banker in a LIBOR-related investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• Serving as post-conviction relief and appellate counsel in U.S. v. Ahuja et al., a Southern District of New York securities and wire fraud prosecution involving alleged mismarking of securities at a hedge fund
• Representing lead defendants in a high-profile FCPA investigation and related U.S. securities class action litigation concerning alleged corruption in Brazil
• Serving as trial counsel in the criminal jury trial U.S. v. Zhongsan Liu, where she cross-examined the government’s expert witnesses in a sensitive national security prosecution
• Arguing Lee v. Greenwood before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which involved important First Amendment questions related to criminal sentencing
• Drafting amicus curiae briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court on issues including statutes of limitations for SEC disgorgement, coram nobis relief for actual innocence, and confrontation clause implications in capital cases

Julia earned her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 2014, where she served on the Human Rights Law Review, and received her B.A., cum laude, from Boston University in 2009. She is admitted to practice in New York, as well as in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and she is admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits. She is fluent in Spanish.