PRESS RELEASE
17 January 2025

The Legal 500 Recognises K&L Gates In 2025 Asia Pacific Edition

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K&L Gates LLP

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At K&L Gates, we foster an inclusive and collaborative environment across our fully integrated global platform that enables us to diligently combine the knowledge and expertise of our lawyers and policy professionals to create teams that provide exceptional client solutions. With offices spanning across five continents, we represent leading global corporations in every major industry, capital markets participants, and ambitious middle-market and emerging growth companies. Our lawyers also serve public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations, and individuals. We are leaders in legal issues related to industries critical to the economies of both the developed and developing worlds—including technology, manufacturing, financial services, health care, energy, and more.
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 edition has ranked K&L Gates and twenty-six lawyers for their work across the firm's nine core practice areas in eight jurisdictions.
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The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 edition has ranked K&L Gates and twenty-six lawyers for their work across the firm's nine core practice areas in eight jurisdictions.

Published annually, The Legal 500 rankings highlight the practice area teams and practitioners that provide the most cutting-edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel. Research is based on feedback from clients worldwide, as well as interviews with leading private practice lawyers.

K&L Gates was ranked in the following practice categories. In addition, the firm was recommended as a “firm to watch” in Australia in Capital markets, China: Private equity (foreign firms), China: Regulatory/compliance (foreign firms), and Hong Kong: Dispute resolution: litigation.

Australia

  • Banking and finance
  • Competition and trade
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Dispute resolution: litigation
  • Energy (transactions and regulatory)
  • Fintech and financial services regulatory
  • Infrastructure projects and construction
  • Intellectual property
  • IT and telecoms
  • Labour and employment
  • Labour and employment: workplace health & safety (WHS)
  • Real estate
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Tax
  • Transport: aviation

China

  • Corporate and M&A (foreign firms)
  • Intellectual property (foreign firms)
  • Investment funds (foreign firms)
  • Tax (foreign firms)

Hong Kong

  • Capital markets (equity)
  • Construction
  • Corporate (including M&A)
  • Fintech and financial services regulatory
  • Intellectual property
  • Investment funds
  • TMT

Japan

  • Banking and finance (international firms and joint ventures)
  • Labour and employment (international firms and joint ventures)

Malaysia (as K&L Gates Straits Law LLC)

  • Foreign firms

Singapore (as K&L Gates Straits Law LLC)

  • Asset finance: foreign firms
  • Banking and finance (local firms)
  • Dispute resolution (local firms)
  • Energy (foreign firms)
  • International arbitration
  • Investment funds (foreign firms)
  • Labour and employment (foreign firms)
  • Projects (foreign firms)
  • Shipping (foreign firms)

Taiwan

  • Capital markets
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Intellectual property

Twenty-six K&L Gates lawyers were identified by The Legal 500 as either a “Hall of Fame” member, “Leading Partner,” “Next Generation Partner,” or “Leading Associate” in their respective practice areas. These lawyers, and the categories in which they are recognised, were:

Australia

China

  • Corporate and M&A (foreign firms): Simon Poh [Leading Partner]
  • Intellectual property (foreign firms): Edward Yao [Next Generation Partner]
  • Tax (foreign firms): Roberta Chang [Next Generation Partner], Anita Zhou [Leading Associate]

Hong Kong

Japan

  • Banking and finance (international firms and joint ventures): Robert Melson [Leading Partner: Gaiben]
  • Labour and employment (international firms and joint ventures): Takahiro Hoshino [Leading Partner: Bengoshi], Nobuki Wada [Next Generation Partner: Bengoshi]

Singapore (as K&L Gates Straits Law LLC)

South Korea

  • Projects and energy (foreign firms): Sarah Park [Next Generation Partner]

Taiwan

To view the firm's full rankings, including the listed lawyers, visit The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 edition.

Contributor

At K&L Gates, we foster an inclusive and collaborative environment across our fully integrated global platform that enables us to diligently combine the knowledge and expertise of our lawyers and policy professionals to create teams that provide exceptional client solutions. With offices spanning across five continents, we represent leading global corporations in every major industry, capital markets participants, and ambitious middle-market and emerging growth companies. Our lawyers also serve public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations, and individuals. We are leaders in legal issues related to industries critical to the economies of both the developed and developing worlds—including technology, manufacturing, financial services, health care, energy, and more.

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