Sonnedix streamlines global legal operations with Plexus

Sonnedix, an international solar energy leader with sites across four continents, is renowned for designing, financing, and operating high-performance solar plants. As the organisation set ambitious growth targets, the Legal and Compliance team found themselves under mounting pressure to support a rapidly expanding business without sacrificing quality or efficiency.

Global Head of Legal and Compliance, Marissa Corda, recognised the need for smart process improvements:

“Our goal has always been to work smarter, not harder, and that’s where we were looking at process improvements and efficiencies throughout the department.”

However, the challenge lay in delivering a scalable and user-friendly solution that could handle high volumes of legal work and engage colleagues across 13 time zones.

Before Plexus: manual work, bottlenecks, and lost time

Sonnedix’s Legal department was weighed down by repetitive, lower-value tasks such as drafting NDAs, processes that could take several days to complete and consumed paralegal resources. Communication channels with the wider business relied on email and manual status checks, which led to uncertainty, duplicated efforts, and reduced productivity.

Marissa shared her concerns about transforming legal operations: “

My personal concern with implementing legal technology was that I’m not an IT professional. What would that mean for developing and rolling out an IT solution for the wider business? And how would we translate the work we had in high volume in a way that makes sense and is easy in a self-contained app?”

After Plexus: automated workflows and global access

Partnering with Plexus brought a transformational change. The team worked closely with Marissa to precisely scope requirements and streamline routine legal work via modular apps. They started by automating high-volume NDAs, freeing up paralegals to focus on higher value tasks.

“What used to take us multiple days now takes just 12 minutes to execute and draft an NDA,” Marissa explained. Plexus provided a central portal for all legal work, enabling Sonnedix’s international teams to interact and track progress in real time, regardless of location or time zone.

Sonnedix achieved new transparency for legal workflows:

“Before Plexus, the business was emailing my team to find out the status of legal work. Now they can see an icon which tells them if the task has been completed or is in progress,” 

Key outcomes

• NDA turnaround reduced: Routine agreements now drafted and executed in just 12 minutes (previously several days).

• Centralised legal portal: Real-time status icons for all legal tasks.  No more email back-and-forth, even across continents.

• Scalable automation: High-volume, lower-risk tasks moved to self-service apps, freeing team capacity for strategic work.

• User engagement: Legal workflows are now transparent, user-friendly, and accessible regardless of time zone or technical background.

• Positive cultural shift: “Plexus is making a really big difference for our team. I think it would be helpful for any corporate legal department looking at scaling up effectively and quickly,” Marissa said.

Lasting impact

With Plexus, Sonnedix’s Legal and Compliance team has unlocked vital productivity gains, scaled operations globally, and delivered exceptional service levels across the business. What was once a bottleneck is now a seamless, transparent process supporting rapid business growth. “We’ve achieved a transparency that didn’t exist before,” Marissa confirmed. The partnership with Plexus continues to help Sonnedix work smarter and act faster, empowering legal operations for the next phase of international expansion.