About Elina

Elina practices general corporate and securities law, focusing on emerging and high-growth companies. She represents clients through all stages of the business life cycle in matters, including formation, venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, public company offerings and corporate governance.

Passions

Traveling

Music and singing

Trivia

Board games

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Admissions and credentials

  • California

Experience

  • $200M Sale of Permiso Security to Okta

    • $200M Sale of Permiso Security to Okta

    July 30, 2026

    Cooley represented Permiso Security in its $200M sale to Okta. Okta signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso, a cloud-native identity security platform that detects and mitigates threats across human, non-human and agentic identities in multi-cloud environments. Permiso's technology provides identity threat detection and response capabilities using more than 2,500 research-driven signals across 70+ identity partners, helping organizations identify and respond to identity-based threats. Following the acquisition, Okta plans to integrate Permiso's capabilities into its identity security platform to enhance threat detection, risk remediation and protection across the identity lifecycle.

    Andy Lustig, Lila Inman, Maureen Nagle, Evan Burroughs and Elina Firsava led the Cooley team advising Permiso Security.

    Related contacts

    Lila Inman
    Associate, Reston
    Maureen Nagle
    Special Counsel, Washington, DC
    Evan Burroughs
    Associate, Reston
    Elina Firsava
    Associate, Palo Alto
    Andrew Lustig
    Partner, Reston

    Related Practices & Industries

    Mergers and Acquisitions
    Emerging Companies

Rankings and accolades

Super Lawyers: Rising Stars (2025 – 2026)

Memberships and affiliations

  • The State Bar of California

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