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Bella Thornton-Clark

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Bella regularly advises companies ranging from early stage start-ups to late stage unicorns on a wide range of corporate matters. Bella started her career as a venture capital lawyer in San Francisco before moving to London. Her clients value her commercial insight into trends and norms in the Californian start-up market. Bella's practice is focused on technology start-ups with particular emphasis on consumer goods, SaaS, healthcare, and fintech.  

 

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Start-up advice
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Technology, media & communications
Life sciences & healthcare
Fintech
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Biotech
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Over the past 10 years, we've built a trusted legal team in San Francisco, focused on technology, media and communciation, life sciences and healthcare, real estate, private wealth, and private equity. Supported by colleagues in the UK and Europe, we also offer deep expertise in M&A, international growth, commercial deals, and data privacy.

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CV

Since 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2022 - 2024 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2020 - 2022 Associate, Gunderson Dettmer, San Francisco
2019 - 2020 Associate, Kirkland & Ellis, San Francisco
2019 Admission to California Bar
2019 J.D. University of Texas School of Law

Career

Since 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2022 - 2024 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2020 - 2022 Associate, Gunderson Dettmer, San Francisco
2019 - 2020 Associate, Kirkland & Ellis, San Francisco

Education

2019 Admission to California Bar
2019 J.D. University of Texas School of Law

Experience

Advising gene therapy company AlveoGene on its complex spinout and launch investment

We have advised AlveoGene, a new UK gene therapy company on its complex spinout from the Gene Therapy Consortium of Imperial College and the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh focusing on rare respiratory diseases, as well as on its seed round investment.

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Blue Earth Therapeutics raises US$76.5 million Series A funding

30 October 2024

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Leading data and analytics provider BMLL secures $21 million strategic investment

7 October 2024

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Advising gene therapy company AlveoGene on its complex spinout and launch investment

23 October 2023

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