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Julia Stelljes focuses her practice on complex technology transactions, with particular experience in data licensing and the financial technologies industry. She advises clients on the development, acquisition and use of data, software, and other technology-driven products and services. Julia regularly structures and negotiates sophisticated agreements involving data access and use rights, software licensing, cloud-based platforms and services, information technology infrastructure and other mission-critical technology arrangements.
Drawing on her deep knowledge of the financial industry, Julia helps clients navigate the commercial and operational issues that arise in connection with data-intensive products, services and business models. She provides strategic guidance on data use and licensing, privacy and security considerations, data governance and data-flow optimization. Julia works closely with business, procurement and technology teams to translate complex technical and regulatory considerations into practical contractual frameworks that support innovation while protecting valuable intellectual property.
Julia brings a pragmatic, business-focused perspective to every engagement. She develops creative solutions that streamline contracting and data-management processes, address risk and help client teams achieve their commercial objectives. Her broader transactional experience includes negotiating intellectual property commercialization agreements, media and strategic partnership arrangements, sponsorship agreements and other collaborative commercial contracts. She also drafts and advises on terms of use and related documentation for consumer-facing proprietary and white-labeled applications.
Drawing on her deep knowledge of the financial industry, Julia helps clients navigate the commercial and operational issues that arise in connection with data-intensive products, services and business models. She provides strategic guidance on data use and licensing, privacy and security considerations, data governance and data-flow optimization. Julia works closely with business, procurement and technology teams to translate complex technical and regulatory considerations into practical contractual frameworks that support innovation while protecting valuable intellectual property.
Julia brings a pragmatic, business-focused perspective to every engagement. She develops creative solutions that streamline contracting and data-management processes, address risk and help client teams achieve their commercial objectives. Her broader transactional experience includes negotiating intellectual property commercialization agreements, media and strategic partnership arrangements, sponsorship agreements and other collaborative commercial contracts. She also drafts and advises on terms of use and related documentation for consumer-facing proprietary and white-labeled applications.
Select examples of Julia’s prior and current firm experience include:
- Represented a major financial institution in its adoption of a new customer data management platform.
- Represented a Fortune 50 retailer in its global telecommunications outsourcing agreement.
- Represented a multi-billion dollar global property and casualty insurance firm in connection with its information technology infrastructure agreement.
- Represented nonprofit organization in negotiations for communications vendors, including email marketing and text messaging platforms.
- Represented a global advertising conglomerate in its investments for scripted and non-scripted content production with multiple diverse-owned production companies.
- Represented advertising agencies in negotiations for multiple client services agreements for global brands.
- Represented automotive brand in its platform agreements for marketing on major social media platforms.
- Represented a newly established professional sports team in data and licensing agreements.
- Represented a Fortune 100 food consumer product company in connection with its benefits administration outsourcing agreement.
- Represented a leading health care company in its facilities management outsourcing agreement impacting over one hundred locations globally.
- Represented a global disability insurance company in its information technology infrastructure, finance and accounting, and commercial real estate outsourcing agreements.
Éducation
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D., cum laude, Associate Editor, Michigan Business and Entrepreneurial Law Review
- Tulane University, B.A., cum laude
Admission au barreau
- Illinois
Reconnaissance
- Named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch list in Technology Law (2026)
- Named "Illinois Rising Star" in Technology Transactions by Thomson Reuters (2025)