Claire Wells
Legal & Business Affairs Director for Europe, Circle
Claire Wells is the Legal & Business Affairs Director – Europe, for Circle, a blockchain company breaking boundaries in the FinTech sector.
Circle is a social payments platform offering free, instant, global digital money transfers and is focused on transforming the world economy with secure, simple, and less costly technology for storing and using money. Circle is backed by $136 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, IDG China, Breyer Capital, Accel, Baidu, CICC and has offices in Boston, San Francisco, Beijing, Dublin and London.
Prior to joining Circle, Claire was International Counsel at Tilt.com, a San Francisco-based social payments platform, looking after their global market offering. She trained and qualified at international law firm Allen & Overy, specialising in M&A and also has experience as in-house Legal Counsel at Lloyds Bank plc.
Claire holds an MA from Cambridge University and currently lives in London.