Julia Dennis specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and recapitalization transactions, capital raises, securities law, and intellectual property. Julia represents businesses both as special M&A counsel and in a general counsel capacity, with clients ranging from the small family businesses to national and international corporations and public companies. She regularly works with management teams of private equity-backed companies to assist with platform and add-on acquisitions, as well as other strategic and growth-centric transactions including key employee incentive plans, joint ventures, minority investments and others. Julia also regularly provides advice relating to protection of intellectual property, including registration of copyrights and state and federal trademarks, and drafting and negotiation of licensing, production and work for hire agreements, privacy policies and terms of service, and master services agreements. 

Julia has specific experience representing emerging and established companies within the manufacturing, distribution, technology, simulation, engineering, hospitality, telecommunication, environmental, professional services, and other sectors. 

Julia earned her J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She holds a B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Emory University.

Admissions

  • State of Florida

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, University of Florida Levin College of Law

  • B.A., summa cum laude, Emory University

Professional Associations & Memberships

  • Member, The Florida Bar

  • Member, Florida Small Business Development Center

  • University of Central Florida Business Incubator Program Coach

  • Advisory Board member to several emerging companies in the technology and simulation space

  • Member, American Bar Association

  • Member, The Florida Bar, Corporate Section

  • Member, Orange County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division

  • Member, Association for Corporate Growth

Languages

  • Russian

  • German

  • Conversational French

News & Insights

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The Key Question in Business Transactions: Stock Deal or Asset Deal?

| April 1, 2025

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Utilizing Phantom Stock to Reward Key Employees

By Julia Dennis & William Lowman | July 1, 2021

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Video: Using a Registered Trademark to Protect Your Business

By Julia Dennis | Sept. 2, 2020

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Intellectual Property Law

Trademark Deadline Update

By Julia Dennis | April 1, 2020

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Titling Real Property: The Benefits of Using LLCs and Revocable Trusts

By Julia Dennis | July 24, 2013

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Maximizing the Value of Intellectual Property in Your Business

By Julia Dennis | Oct. 15, 2012

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