K&L Gates has been recognised in 30 practice areas in The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2026 edition, with more than 65 lawyers recommended as leading practitioners. Published annually, the rankings highlight the UK's leading lawyers providing essential practice guidance around laws and regulations in key jurisdictions.
K&L Gates was ranked in the following practice categories:
- Aviation
- Commercial contracts
- Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Commercial property: development
- Commercial property: investment
- Construction: contentious
- Construction: non-contentious
- Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Derivatives and structured products
- Electoral
- Environment
- Equity capital markets small-mid cap
- EU and competition
- Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- International arbitration
- M&A: lower mid-market deals, £100m-£750m
- Oil and gas
- Planning
- Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Private funds
- Property finance
- Rail
- Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Retail and consumer
- Retail funds
- Transport finance and leasing
Along with the firm's rankings, 16 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:
- Catherine Adam - Commercial contracts [Leading Partner]
- Steven Cox - Commercial property: corporate occupiers [Next Generation Partner]
- Gabriela Da Costa - EU and competition [Next Generation Partner]
- Chiara Del Frate - Commercial property: corporate occupiers [Leading Associate]
- James Green - Equity capital markets small-mid cap [Leading Partner]
- John Magnin - Commercial litigation: mid-market [Hall of Fame]
- Christian Major - Commercial property: corporate occupiers [Leading Partner]
- Andrew Massey - Retail funds [Next Generation Partner]
- Ian Meredith - International arbitration [Leading Partner]
- Peter Morton - International arbitration [Leading Partner]
- Dylan Moses - Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals) [Next Generation Partner]
- Georgina Rigg - Commercial contracts [Leading Associate]
- Matthew Smith - Construction: contentious [Leading Partner]
- Paul Tetlow - Equity capital markets small-mid cap [Leading Partner]
- Sarah Turpin - Insurance litigation: for policyholders [Leading Partner]
- Matthew Walker - Construction: contentious [Leading Partner]