Clare Lucas

Clare advises businesses on commercial and technology contracts, including procurement, outsourcing, software licensing, and supply agreements, and provides in-house legal support, due diligence and risk management for ongoing operations and transactions.

• Leading numerous difficult negotiations and closed multiple complex and high-value contracts in countries throughout Europe, including Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
• Closing Motorola’s first $1 billion+ contract in Europe.

Clare is a commercial lawyer with particular expertise in technology transactions. She works on strategic, complex and high-value negotiations and has significant experience advising senior management teams, having previously spent 10 years in-house at Motorola.

• Leading negotiations for a global IP, video and broadband corporation on the sale of equipment and licensing of software to BT.
• 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.

Clare is an experienced commercial lawyer with particular expertise in technology transactions. Prior to joining Keystone, she spent 10 years as in-house counsel for Motorola, leading strategic, complex and high-value contract negotiations and advising senior management.

• Advising in respect to multiple strategic contracts and providing ongoing commercial support to a growing electric vehicle charging company.
• Advising a high growth telematics company on the commercial aspects of its complex joint venture with the RAC and ongoing licensing arrangements.