about
Our Business
We enable and empower commercial lenders to close all types of commercial lending transactions with confidence.
Read more about our deal experience on our “Services” page.
Our Leadership
Jake Kraemer, Managing Member and Chief Executive Officer
Jake heads bolderlaw and advises lending institutions on all types of financing transactions. Jake is a former Executive, Chief Legal Officer, and Chief Risk Officer of Clayton Bank and Trust, a highly regarded and nationally recognized community bank. CBT is one of three banks operating under Clayton Bancorp, Inc., the $1B bank holding company owned by the Jim Clayton family. While under the tutelage of such an accomplished business owner and executive team, Jake obtained a truly unique perspective on lending transactions that serves his lending clients well. In addition to his banking knowledge, Jake has years of experience in private practice representing lenders and businesses owners on all types of commercial transactions. Jake takes a forward-looking view of the practice of law and his clients benefit from his attention to lenders and borrowers alike.
Tara Kraemer, Managing Member and Chief People Officer
Tara leads bolderlaw’s accomplished team of individuals and advises lending institutions on all types of financing transactions. Tara has experience as a lending transactional attorney, commercial litigator, and a business bankruptcy and planning attorney. The skills Tara gained in each of these roles allow her to see lending deals from a number of vantage points and guide clients through risk reduction and litigation avoidance with proper planning. Tara’s clients and bolderlaw’s extended team benefit from the freedom afforded by her belief that lawyers can provide an exceptional legal product without being confined by the typical law firm partnership track.
Our Principles
Balanced Legal Expertise
Having worked right alongside you to grow a portfolio, we know that the business of lending is built on relationships, not loans. As business author and speaker Harvey McKay clarified, “the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.”
We delicately balance the need to protect your legal interests with your need to build and maintain rich, quality relationships. We are a law firm, but don’t let that fool you; we are first and foremost a team of business-minded professionals dedicated to balancing sensible business decisions with legal risks.
Service Excellence
Each player on the bolderlaw team is indoctrinated with the idea that service excellence is of primary importance. That standard permeates each step of every deal we work on and all processes of our business. For us, service excellence leaves your client delighted that you were bolder.
Value
It takes a bolder way of working to drive a better value proposition. Warren Buffett explained, “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” With the closing of each deal, we are debunking the myth that you can’t have both premier service and better than average pricing from your legal counsel.