Sonia Elizabeth Fulop Email & Phone Number

Târgu Mureș, MS, RO

Newark, California, US

Newark, California, US

• Manage, negotiate, and close complex retail, service center, and industrial/warehousing lease transactions, from letter of intent to closing, in the U.S. and Canada, including in existing buildings and new construction.
• Project-manage internal and external stakeholder teams from retail development and operations, facilities, construction, risk management, zoning and licensing, and environmental on all lease transactions to ensure that.
• Manage outside counsel in negotiating and drafting letters of intent and lease documents.
• Provide advice and counsel to business and legal teams on various legal issues, including landlord disputes.
• Review, draft, and negotiate numerous ancillary agreements, including lease amendments, premises acceptance letters, estoppel certificates, SNDAs, license agreements, and termination agreements.
• Develop internal processes, checklists, and other documents to guide and streamline leasing transactions.

20+ Locations, Worldwide, US

My practice focuses on transactional real estate matters. I have experience advising clients in various real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions in connection with private equity, M&A, and health care transactions. I have extensive commercial leasing experience representing tenants and landlords in office, health care.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Represent clients for all facets of varied real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financing, and joint ventures; responsibilities include drafting loan agreements and ancillary documents.
• Conduct and supervise diligence, including review of title and survey, zoning reports, and leases
• Advise corporate clients on real estate aspects of complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and credit financings; responsibilities include negotiating acquisition and credit agreements.
• Draft memos, and track proposed legislation, concerning the EB-5 immigrant investor program
• Work on pro bono projects concerning GLBT, reproductive freedom, and immigration issues

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Drafted memos on topics including immigrant and GLBT rights, gender equality, and Terry stops
• Participated in All Above All advocacy training

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Worked on lease reviews, closing checklists, and other matters for real estate acquisitions and dispositions, including the acquisition of a new building for the Evanston Art Center
• Drafted memos on the permissibility of judges in Illinois offering legal advice to pro se litigants seeking orders of protection in domestic violence cases, the EB-5 immigrant investor program, New York’s one-action.
• Worked on a pro bono GLBT asylum case, including helping to interview the client, researching exceptions to one-year filing deadlines in cases involving notarios, and researching and contacting potential expert witnesses
• Participated in the Kirkland Institute of Corporate Practice and mock negotiation

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Conducted research on a variety of issues including asylum procedure in the United States for individuals apprehended at the border
• Researched affirmative defenses to a Federal Torts Claims Act lawsuit
• Drafted FOIA requests and motions to use electronic equipment at trial

• Performed copy editing and developmental editing of scholarly books and journals for clients including Kent State University Press, W. W. Norton, University of Tennessee Press, Fordham University Press, Harvard Law.
• Helped authors develop and articulate their ideas and structure their arguments
• Communicated and collaborated with authors, managing editors, proofreaders, and publishers
• Corrected grammar, syntax, and spelling errors; checked facts and citations; and ensured the overall consistency, logic, and clarity of texts

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Certificate, Editing

Ba, French Literature, Art History

Am, Art History