Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of Corporate Partner Carole Bellis to its nationally-recognized Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Team. The addition of Ms. Bellis is part of the firm’s strategy to grow its transactional practices in the Bay Area. She will be based in Kilpatrick Townsend’s expanding Silicon Valley office.

“Carole is a tremendous addition to Kilpatrick Townsend and our M&A and Emerging Companies practice groups,” said Bill Shaffer, Kilpatrick Townsend Managing Partner, Silicon Valley Office. “We believe Carole’s experience working with venture-backed companies for over a decade together with her background in M&A and cross-border transactions will be an invaluable resource for our clients and attorneys across the firm. Her practice not only complements but adds depth to the range of services offered by our Silicon Valley office. Carole will play an integral role as we continue to grow our corporate transactions and securities practice on the West Coast.”

Ms. Bellis’ practice focuses on representing public and private companies in venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate transactions. She has extensive experience working with a wide-range of clients in the technology and life sciences sectors. Ms. Bellis began her legal career in Paris where she advised U.S. companies engaged in cross-border transactions before returning to the Bay Area where she has practiced since 1999. Before attending law school, she was an executive in a government-relations firm representing high-profile public companies and foreign governments before the California state legislature. 

Ms. Bellis earned her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law and a B.S.B.A. from Florida State University.

“I am excited to be joining Kilpatrick Townsend whose recent merger has united firms from the Southeast, where I grew up, and the Bay Area where I have spent most of my adult life,” said Carole Bellis. “I am looking forward to working with Bill Gerson, who I have known for many years, and with my new colleagues to provide the firm’s West Coast corporate clients with the outstanding client service they have come to expect from Kilpatrick Townsend.”