Global Law Firm K&L Gates LLP has been ranked in more than 30 practice areas in America's Legal 500 2024 edition, with the firm's accolades including Tier 1 rankings in the categories of M&A: Middle Market ($500 million to $999 million), Shipping: Litigation & Regulation, and Financial Services Regulation: Brokers of bag. The edition also recommends more than 150 K&L Gates attorneys as featured professionals. Published annually, the Legal 500 rankings recognize practice teams that provide the most cutting-edge and innovative advice to corporate lawyers.
As a firm, K&L Gates was recognized in the following categories:
- Alternative/hedge funds
- Aviation and Air Travel: Finance
- Construction (including construction litigation)
- Corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense: advice to companies
- Corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense: advice to individuals
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- electronic discovery
- Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Energy: renewable/alternative energy
- Energy litigation: electrical energy
- Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy regulation: electrical energy
- Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy transactions: electrical energy
- Environment: litigation
- Environment: regulatory
- Environment: transactional
- Regulation of financial services: stockbrokers
- financial technology
- General business disputes
- Government contracts
- Government relations
- Healthcare: service providers
- Insurance: advice for policyholders
- International arbitration
- Mergers and acquisitions: mid-market ($500 million to $999 million)
- Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Private equity buyouts: mid-market (up to $500 million)
- Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate
- Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate (company to watch)
- Maritime transport: litigation and regulation
- Trademarks - non-contentious (including processing, portfolio management and licensing)
- US taxes: non-contentious
Along with the firm's rankings, The Legal 500 identified 12 K&L Gates attorneys as “Hall of Fame,” “Leading Individual,” “Next Generation Partner,” or “Rising Star” in their respective areas of practice. practice. These lawyers, and the categories in which they were recognized, are:
- Lea Baucom - Mergers and acquisitions: middle market [Next Generation Partner]
- Calvina Bostick - Mergers and acquisitions: middle market [Leading Individual]
- Mark Goshko - Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds [Hall of Fame]
- jeffrey king - Maritime transport - litigation and regulation [Leading Individual]
- George Kontakis - Maritime transport - litigation and regulation [Next Generation Partner]
- Ndenisarya Meekins - Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds [Leading Individual]
- Karishma Page - Government relations [Leading Individual]
- Emanuel Rouvelas - Government relations [Leading Individual]
- Michael Scanlon - Government relations [Leading Individual] and Maritime Transport - litigation and regulation [Leading Individual]
- Ella Stuart - Maritime transport - litigation and regulation [Rising Star]
- Scott Waxman - Delaware Attorney [Leading Individual]
- Robert Zinn - Mergers and acquisitions: middle market [Hall of Fame]
K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with attorneys located on five continents. The firm represents leading multinational corporations, growth and mid-market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs from all major industry groups, as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations and individuals.