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Darya Zappia

Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel

Fun Fact: Darya is an avid ocean swimmer.

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Prior to joining Rarebreed as its general counsel, Darya was a partner at a prominent Portland law firm where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and intellectual property laws. During that time, she had served as Rarebreed’s outside general counsel since its founding in 2018. While in private practice, Darya focused her pro bono efforts on helping immigrants and churches, and for many years was involved with the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project. Darya is a published author and was consistently selected by her peers for inclusion in the Super Lawyers and Rising Stars publication. She received a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Minsk State Linguistic University.

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