Sonsora Group

Deep Experience,

Integrity and Tenacity

Deep experience, integrity and tenacity define Sonsara and its founder, Svetlana Attestatova. We provide legal counsel (through Sonsara Professional Corporation) and interim management services (through Sonsara Management Services) to a broad range of businesses: from start-up to well established companies, banks and alternative investors, and mature businesses experiencing cash-flow shortfalls or overleverage, operational and management challenges, and adversarial stakeholder groups, to name a few. We are known for our creative approach to problem solving in difficult situations and offering cost effective solutions.

Deep Experience

With over 19 years of experience in big law and heading small and medium-sized companies’ legal as well as executive functions, Svetlana’s depth and breadth of expertise offer a tremendous benefit to Sonsara’s clients. Because of Svetlana’s business leadership positions, Sonsara’s clients benefit from her business oriented practical advice in addition to her legal acumen. Check out examples of our engagements.

Integrity And Trustworthiness

When Sonsara’s clients were asked about what distinguishes us from our peers, the common response was that what guides us in each engagement is the client’s best interests—always. This explains why clients trust us with solving their most difficult and challenging problems. Check out our testimonials page to see what clients say about us.

Tenacity And Resourcefulness

We are determined and tenacious and pride ourselves in seeing through the projects that we are engaged for. Our expertise spans many industries and engagement sizes. Furthermore, because Svetlana led complex transactions to successful closings many times over, Sonsara has built a large network of resources (domestic and international) that are ready to be tapped into whenever needed by its clients.

Creativity

In assessing each situation, we come up with solutions that others have not thought of. Our ability to view your situation from our broad set of experiences allows us to offer advice and solutions that are unique and out-of-the-box and fully customized to your situation.

Cost Effectiveness

Unlike a typical big law or consulting firm, we staff our engagements leanly. We charge fairly and will work with you on a pricing arrangement that makes sense for your engagement. To ensure that we are the right fit for each other, Sonsara offers its new clients two initial 30-minute consultations at no charge.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Our Expertise Spans These Industries:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Healthcare Services
  • Financial Services
  • Real Estate
  • Public Utilities
  • Hardware Manufacturing
  • SaaS
  • Alcoholic Beverages
  • Jewelry & Accessories Retail
  • Aircraft Leasing Services
  • Education Services
  • Religious Services
  • Captive Insurance Services

WHO WE WORK WITH

Our Past And Present Clients Include:

  • Early Stage Technology Companies
  • Publicly Traded Companies
  • Banks
  • Private Equity Firms
  • Venture Capital Firms
  • Hedge Funds
  • Hospitals
  • Religious Services Organizations
  • Captive Insurance Companies

Our Past And Present Engagements Include:

General Counsel

Serving as general counsel and
executive officer to start-up
and small mature companies.

General Counsel

Serving as general counsel and
executive officer to start-up
and small mature companies.
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Interim Management

Served as the interim
CEO of a real estate
holding company.

Interim Management

Served as the interim
CEO of a real estate
holding company.
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Debt Financings

Represented companies (borrower-
side) in ABL, first and second lien
and DIP credit facilities, ranging
from $1 million to $1.25 billion.

Debt Financings

Represented companies (borrower-
side) in ABL, first and second lien
and DIP credit facilities, ranging
from $1 million to $1.25 billion.
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Mergers & Acquisitions

Represented a privately
owned company in a $170
million acquisition of assets
of a public company.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Represented a privately
owned company in a $170
million acquisition of assets
of a public company.
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TESTIMONIALS

What Clients Say About Us

“Silicon Valley Experience”

Roman Kikta
Managing Partner, Mobility Ventures / CEO & Founder, Phenometrix
“Svetlana Attestatova is an experienced legal counsellor who cares about and works in the best interests of her clients. She assisted us with launching our startup with corporate formation, shareholder, partnership, and sales agreements, as well as all legal risk assessments. She is calming, astute, tough, and protective and stays hands-on from start to finish. I found Svetlana to be very responsive, pragmatic and clear throughout and a pleasure to deal with. With Svetlana you get the best of both worlds – the Silicon Valley experience and expertise from her days with a large global firm plus the personal client service of a boutique and an attorney that truly cares.” See More
“Tireless Work Ethic”

Steven R. Blake
Chief Financial Officer, Pipeline-LA / Chief Accounting Officer, Pipeline Health System
“I have worked with Svetlana over the years in her role as outside counsel for Integrated Healthcare Holdings, Inc and both outside counsel, then general counsel for Paladin Healthcare Capital and affiliates. Svetlana is an experienced attorney in healthcare law, financial instruments, and tax matters for private companies. She has a tireless work ethic in both research and execution of complex transactions.” See More
“Phenomenal Results”

Seiichi Noguchi
President and CEO, Mission Salt, Inc.
“Svetlana is a practical, strategic and savvy lawyer who guided our company through a maze of legal and ethical issues. Utilizing her out-of-the-box approach and very effective business and negotiation skills, Svetlana achieved phenomenal results for our company that we had not considered possible.” See More

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Representative matters do not guarantee future success. The matters represented on this site or our past performance, testimonials or endorsements do not constitute a guarantee, warranty, or prediction regarding the outcome of future engagements. Past results obtained or overall performance must be confined to each particular matter, its factual and legal circumstances and legal surroundings. Every matter is different and must be judged on its own merits.