Julie L. Antalffy

 

17514 Heath Grove, Richmond, TX ♦ 832.282.5637 ♦ jantalffy@gmail.com ♦ www.linkedin.com/pub/julie-antalffy/17/905/495

 

ATTORNEY PROFILE:  Motivated, results oriented transactional counsel with strong experience in real estate, corporate law, banking and financial services and the energy industry; organized with an attention to detail, and the proven ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment; excellent oral and written communication skills; self-starter, fast learner; spots an issue before it becomes a difficulty; solution-focused, with a “think outside the box” approach to problem-solving; can take complex concepts in law and reduce them to easy-to-understand-and-follow guides; readily applies ideas learned in one discipline to another area of business to achieve clients’ goals.  Strengths include:

•     All Aspects of the Real Estate Life Cycle	•     Corporate Law, Governance, and Compliance
•     Title Work and Surveys	•     Company Start-ups and Dissolutions
•     Negotiating and Drafting Contracts	•     Mergers and Acquisitions
•     Commercial Transactions	•     Due Diligence
•     Research and Writing	•     Federal, State and Local Licensing/Permitting

 

EMPLOYMENT:

 

Situs Group, LLC, Houston, Texas, Director & Senior Legal Counsel                                    2013–Present

 

♦Real Estate—Situs is a premier provider of commercial real estate advisory services, and my daily activities include drafting and negotiating commercial real estate related documentation; property management and listing functions including consulting and agency matters, as well as real estate related vendor agreements, property leases; addressing environmental concerns; working with valuation analytics teams, transaction due diligence, handling insurance matters and equipment leasing.

 

♦Corporate Law—Corporate practice includes heavy mergers and acquisitions work from identifying a target, formulating internal and external proposals, planning and negotiating, performing due diligence, closing document drafting and preparation, and post-acquisition assimilation; day-to-day tasks involve transaction oversight, negotiating and drafting revenue generating agreements, vendor operating agreements, and service subscription agreements; tending to employee related matters, policy implementation, internal controls, risk assessment, and legal awareness training; providing legal support to varying business divisions, including subsidiary management and maintenance; finance and tax related issues; handling confidentiality and non-disclosure matters; and maintaining and updating forms.

 

♦Banking—Banking and finance related work includes assisting with inter-company/bank securitizations; supporting banking secondment platforms; working on servicing and special servicing matters; logistics advisory work; facilitating bank audit investigations; negotiating and drafting master services agreements and corresponding statements of work; overseeing national litigation; monitoring changing banking and finance regulations; and updating banking documentation and forms.

 

U.S. Bank, N.A.*, Houston, Texas, Senior Corporate Counsel & Vice President                                        2009–2013

*Formerly Fairfield Financial Group, Inc.—The parent company, FBOP Corp., was sold to U.S. Bank in October 2009.

 

♦ Real Estate—Daily activities included drafting and negotiating commercial real estate and loan documentation; property management and listing functions including consulting and agency matters and vendor agreements; handling property leases and sales from inception to close; environmental concerns; personal property and equipment leasing; and assessment and management of title issues and title policy claims.

 

♦Corporate Law—Corporate practice included transaction oversight; employee related matters, policy implementation, internal controls, risk assessment, and legal awareness training; providing legal support to varying business divisions; managing regulatory and compliance issues; seeing to corporate governance and reporting requirements including subsidiary management and maintenance; assessing and addressing insurance issues and claims; finance and tax related issues; handling confidentiality and non-disclosure matters; and maintaining and updating forms.

 

♦Banking—Daily operations included drafting, negotiating, and revising commercial contracts and business transaction documents and drafting loan and finance related documentation; working on inter-company/bank participations; tending to daily legal issues arising at bank branches nationwide; assisting in collection endeavors and overseeing national litigation; and monitoring changing banking and finance regulations.

 

♦Energy—Energy related practice includes the handling of oil and gas leases; pipeline right-of-way and easement agreements; mineral estate related issues; and procurement agreements.

 

 

 

 

Christian, Smith & Jewell, LLP, Houston, Texas, Associate & Senior Associate                                        1999–2009

 

♦Real Estate—Under the direction of the senior Partner, I headed up the firm’s transactional department, which had a heavy focus on real estate.  Daily practice involved managing a variety real estate related matters including drafting real estate related contracts for sales, doing title work, preparing closing documents, working with easements and property management; and drafting deed restrictions and homeowner’s and condominium owner’s association documentation.

 

♦Corporate Law—As outside corporate counsel to corporate clients in various fields, practice areas and activities involved entity formation; handling employment, non-compete and labor disputes; working on state, interstate and federal securities matters; concession agreements; completing asset and stock transfers and sales, closing corporate acquisitions and divestitures, handling corporate reorganizations, and negotiating and drafting inter-company and joint venture agreements; working on licensing, distribution and franchise matters; and handling high volume document review and discovery projects.  I secured multiple trademarks, and worked on local, national and international corporate civil litigation (international litigation caused me to be well versed in international litigation treaties).

 

♦Banking—Banking related operations included drafting loan origination documentation and mortgage closing documents for local banks and the performance of related title work, as well as assisting in collection endeavors.

 

♦Energy & Construction—Energy related practice included negotiation and drafting of master service agreements; the handling of oil and gas leases, mineral estate related issues, pipeline right-of-way and easement agreements; and working on procurement agreements, vendor agreements, and energy provider contracts. Construction work included working on EPC transactions, mechanics’ and materialmen’s liens.

EDUCATION:

 

Lazarski University School of Law, Warsaw, Poland, in conjunction with the Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria, and Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, Master of Laws–Transnational Commercial Practice, Highest Honors                                                   2013

Degree studies focused on cross-border business, EU member state property law, concession agreements, multi-national operations of global actors, international finance, country specific entity structures and related laws, transnational ventures, international service and vendor agreements, multi-lateral associations, accession to global treaties and international ADR.

 

South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas, Juris Doctor         2000

South Texas Law Review, Member 1998–00; and Articles Editor on Law Review Editorial Board 1999–00

 

University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, Bachelor of Arts–Political Science & History, Philosophy minor, cum laude                                                                                                                         1997

 

HONORS, QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, PUBLICATIONS & ACTIVITIES:

 

Sworn in to the State Bar of Texas, November 2000, and Member of the Texas State Bar College 2006–14.

 

University of Houston Law Center Adjunct Professor in the Transactional Clinic, Spring and Fall 2012.

 

Admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales, with practice eligibility in common law jurisdictions worldwide, 2009.

 

Qualified Mediator under the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code; and State of Texas qualified ad-litem.

 

Author, International Civil Litigation 101: Tips for the Texas Lawyer, 2013 (LL.M. Program thesis, publication pending in Lazarski University School of Law Journal).

 

Contributing Author, A European Civil Code: To Be or Not To Be, That is the Question, Towards A European Civil Code? An American Lawyers’ Perspective, (Lazarski University School of Law 2012).

 

Author, Extra-Jurisdictional Domestic & International Discovery, a Guide for Practitioners; and presented same at the 19^TH Annual Texas Bar Advanced Evidence & Discovery CLE, San Antonio, Texas, May 25, 2006.

 

Contributing Author, Preface to Symposium Proceedings, Recommendations of the Conference on Emerging Professional Responsibility Issues in Litigation, South Texas Law Review, Winter 1999.

 

Adept with document review databases such as Concordance, iConnect, Needle Finder, InterLegis, and IntraLinks.

 

Life Member: Phi Delta Phi Legal Society, Pi Gamma Mu Social Science Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society,  Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society, Cambridge Who’s Who and Continental Who’s Who.

 

Participating judge and mentor at various student competitions at the University of Houston Law Center and South Texas College of Law 2006–Present.