Sonja K. Homenuck

Sonja K. Homenuck is a Partner at Dentons, based in Toronto, and recently served as the National Lead of the firm's Real Estate group for a number of years. Her practice focuses on Real Estate Law.

Sonja possesses strong, established local and regional knowledge on a wide range of real estate ventures and projects, and focuses on all aspects of commercial acquisitions and dispositions, financing and commercial leasing. She has experience acting on all kinds of acquisitions, dispositions and financing of commercial real estate, including some of the largest and most complex transactions in Canada, with significant experience in hotels, industrial properties, office buildings, retail properties, recreational facilities and special use real estate.

She acts for both landlords and tenants in respect of all types of leasing scenarios, including office, industrial and retail leasing, design-build leasing and design-build-finance leasing, leasebacks and ground leasing. Her extensive experience includes special uses such as libraries, community centres, hospital facilities, gymnasiums and fitness facilities, school uses, movie and production studios, entertainment venues, banquet halls, manufacturing facilities and mining uses. Her clients include developers, government entities, pension funds and private companies.

In addition, Sonja has a deep understanding of developing joint-venture structures for real estate acquisitions, as well as preparing and negotiating all forms of agreements relating to real estate. She takes a strategic approach to commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions and often acquires land for development purposes.

Her experience includes advising EPR Properties on its acquisition of the Village Vacances Valcartier resort and hotel in Québec City and the Calypso Waterpark in Ottawa, advising Greystone and Canstone on the CA$479 million acquisition of the three-tower Constitution Square in Ottawa, and advising Cityzen Developments and Dominus Construction on the City of Brampton's P3 "Southwest Quadrant Development" core area expansion project.

She holds an LLB and a BA (with Distinction) from the University of Victoria. She is recognised by Chambers Canada and The Legal 500 Canada for Real Estate, by The Best Lawyers in Canada for Commercial Leasing Law and Real Estate Law, and by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for Property Leasing.