Bird & Bird is particularly recommended for advice on early-stage financing and series fundraising for companies in the healthtech, foodtech, biotech and mobility sectors. Leadership is shared between Emmanuelle Porte and Carole Bodin, with Porte specialising in venture capital, M&A and corporate finance transactions within the life sciences and healthcare sector and Bodin bringing extensive experience assisting corporates on acquisitions and investors on venture capital transactions. Sonia Sassi joined the practice from Goodwin in July 2025.
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Key clients
- ARM
- Sparing Vision
- Infravia Growth
- Caisse des dépôts et consignations
- Enterome
- Coave Therapeutics
- Efeso Consulting Group
- Bpifrance Investissement
- Engie New Ventures
- St-Hubert
- Qwant
- GEI
Work highlights
Advising Bpifrance Large Venture on its participation in the $41m Series A financing round of Bioptimus, a biotech company wishing to develop the first specialised generative AI model for biology. Bpifrance's Large Venture participated alongside Cathay Innovation, who led the round, and existing investor Sofinnova Partners in the Series A financing round, one year after the $35 million Seed round.
Advised the lead investors Business Opportunities for L'Oreal Development, DTCF, Evonik and Clay Capital on the series A financing round of Abolis Biotechnology, a French company specialising in the development of microbial strains and production methods for industrial use.
Advising BrainEver, a French biotech company specialised in the development of new therapies for patients with age-related neurodegenerative diseases, on its €33m Series B fundraising round to fight Charcot's disease. Critical Path Ventures and the European Innovation Council led this new financing round, in which existing investors Ibionext and Relyens also participated.
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Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Practice head
Emmanuelle Porte; Carole Bodin
Other key lawyers
Gildas Louvel; David Malcoiffe; Bertrand Levy; Félicien Bardsley; Olivier Peronnau; Lionel Berthelet; Sonia Sassi