Clare is an experienced commercial lawyer with particular expertise in technological transactions. She has typically worked on strategic, complex and high-value negotiations, often involving an international element, and has significant experience advising senior management teams.
Expertise
- Agency and distribution agreements
- Confidentiality agreements/non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
- Consultancy agreements
- Commercial contracts for the sale and supply of goods and services
- Cooperation and teaming agreements
- Due diligence/legal audits
- Heads of terms, letters of intent (LOIs), memoranda of understanding (MOUs)
- In-house legal support to SMEs and large corporates, including general commercial legal advice to support profitable business growth
- Invitation to tender/bid and quote/sales support including preparation of contract compliance
- Managed services contracts
- Outsourcing arrangements
- Procurement contracts/subcontracts
- Project management of commercial transactions
- Risk management including analyses and strategy
- Software development and licensing agreements
- Technology contracts including complex contracts for the sale and supply of equipment, services and/or software, including wireless network infrastructure, mobile devices, digital entertainment devices, digital and IP video solutions, passive optical networking solutions, cable modems and gateways
- Website terms and conditions
Experience
- Advising a high growth telematics company on the commercial aspects of its complex joint venture with the RAC and ongoing licensing arrangements
- Leading negotiations for a global IP, video and broadband corporation on the sale of equipment and licensing of software to BT
- Advising in respect to multiple strategic contracts and providing ongoing commercial support to a growing electric vehicle charging company
- Closing Motorola’s first $1 billion+ contract in Europe
- Leading negotiations for key strategic contracts to deploy new technologies with Virgin Media and France Telecom-Orange
- Finalising major contracts for the supply of set top boxes to BT and Deutsche Telekom
- Completing contract negotiations for strategic deployments of equipment and services with major network operators including Vodafone, Telefonica, Teliasonera, Turkcell, Vimplecom and Mobile TeleSystems
- Leading numerous difficult negotiations and closed multiple complex and high-value contracts in countries throughout Europe, including Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Career
Clare qualified as a solicitor in 1999. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2012, she worked at the following firms:
- Motorola
- Osborne Clarke