Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has been ranked in more than 30 practice areas in The Legal 500 United States 2024 edition, with the firm’s accolades including Tier 1 rankings in the M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m), Shipping - litigation and regulation, and Financial Services Regulation: Broker-Dealers categories. The edition also recommends more than 150 K&L Gates lawyers as leading practitioners. Published annually, The Legal 500 rankings recognize the practice area teams who are providing the most cutting edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel.
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 corporates
- Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to individuals
- Delaware counsel
- E-discovery
- Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment: litigation
- Environment: regulatory
- Environment: transactional
- Financial Services Regulation: Broker-Dealers
- Fintech
- General commercial disputes
- Government contracts
- Government relations
- Healthcare: service providers
- Insurance: advice to policyholders
- International Arbitration
- M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate
- Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate (firm to watch)
- Shipping - litigation and regulation
- Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- US taxes: non-contentious
Along with the firm’s rankings, 12 K&L Gates lawyers were identified by The Legal 500 as either a “Hall of Fame” member, “Leading Individual,” “Next Generation Partner,” or “Rising Star” in their respective practice areas. These lawyers, and the categories in which they were recognized, are:
- Leah Baucom - M&A: middle-market [Next Generation Partner]
- Calvina Bostick - M&A: middle-market [Leading Individual]
- Mark Goshko - Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds [Hall of Fame]
- Jeffrey King - Shipping - litigation and regulation [Leading Individual]
- George Kontakis - Shipping - 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 Shipping - litigation and regulation [Leading Individual]
- Elle Stuart - Shipping - litigation and regulation [Rising Star]
- Scott Waxman - Delaware counsel [Leading Individual]
- Robert Zinn - M&A: middle-market [Hall of Fame]