Clare Badaracco, Esq.

About The Lecturer

Clare is the founding member of Maximus Law. Clare’s practice focuses on providing legal advice on transactional matters, with extensive experience in financial transactions (such as corporate financing, acquisitions and lending transactions), commercial transactions including strategic partnership deals and day-to-day sales- customer transactions for a scaling team, and product and privacy matters for consumer and enterprise technology products. Clare started her career working for Wilson Sonsini (both as a paralegal and then as a financial transaction associate), then she worked at Morrison & Foerster LLP focussing on cleantech and lending transactions representing both borrowers and lenders, including top national financial institutions. Clare has worked in a variety of industries including solar and alternative energy companies, fintech companies, and platform technology companies. What distinguishes Clare is that she has worked with clients of all sizes and in different stages of growth - from formation, to strategic bet -the-company transactions to billion dollar transactions. Also, Clare has worked with a number of technology companies that have impacts in the real world. Working at Sungevity and Airbnb, products are digitally marketed and purchased, but very much delivered in the real world, which brings a unique set of legal issues and challenges.  NDD - Never a Dull Day.  Clare has also worked extensively with executive teams and served as a corporate officer, including leading a company through a SPAC transaction from LOI to SEC Effectiveness.  Clare truly enjoys helping clients navigate the unexpected, and see around the corners to minimize the unexpected. 

Clare is originally from San Francisco and still resides in the city by the bay. Outside of the law, Clare volunteers with various non-profit organizations, including Christmas Everyday and the Knights of the St. Francis of Assisi. For fun, she is an avid tennis player in Northern California and loves to share her tips on Italian travel, especially to Umbria, Tuscany and the Med.

Education

J.D., Santa Clara University

B.A., Santa Clara University