Dr Sonia Florea

Lawyer, member of the Bucharest Bar (since 2003) and Partner at Florea Gheorghe and Associates SCPA, with 23 years of professional experience in civil and commercial law, law of civil procedure, intellectual property and competition law, arbitration, private international law, public international law.

LLB in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest (2003)

Maîtrise in European Law, Franco-Romanian College of European Studies, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2003)

Master's degree (LLM) in Commercial and Corporate Law, University College of London, University of London (Merit, 2003-2004)

PhD in the Law of Civil Procedure, with the thesis "Actions in the Field of Intellectual Property Rights. Acquisition, Defence and Extinction of IP Rights", doctoral supervisor Prof. univ. dr. V.M. Ciobanu, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest (Summa cum laude, 2012).

After publication, the thesis was awarded the scientific awards "Mihail Eliescu" and "Henri Capitant", for the best legal thesis of the year 2013 in private law.

Arbitrator of the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (2015 - present) and of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Romanian Copyright Office (ORDA) - World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2020 - present).

Mediator, accredited by the Craiova Mediation Center, in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and the Embassy of the United States of America in Bucharest (2006).

IP attorney, qualified in trademarks and geographical indications (2005), patents (2017), industrial designs (2017).

University lecturer (external), in charge of the undergraduate and LLM course in Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies (2025-2026).

External lecturer in charge of seminars at the undergraduate level in Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest (2024-2025).

External lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, in Civil Procedural Law (2011-2012) and Intellectual Property Law (2008-2009 and 2010-2013).

Lecturer at the National Institute for the Training of Lawyers (INPPA), in Intellectual Property Law (2022-present), Civil Law and Civil Procedural Law (2020-2022), Business Law (2007-2011).

Author of two monographs on the New Code of Civil Procedure and of more than 28 scientific articles. Constant speaker at national and international conferences on procedural law and intellectual property law.