Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has been ranked in more than 30 practice areas in The Legal 500 United States 2022 edition, with the firm’s accolades again including Tier 1 rankings in the M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m) and Transport: shipping – litigation and regulation categories. The edition also recommends 115 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
• 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: conventional power
• Energy litigation: oil and gas
• Energy regulation: conventional power
• Energy regulation: oil and gas
• Energy transactions: conventional power
• Environment: litigation
• Environment: regulatory
• Fintech
• General commercial disputes
• Government contracts
• Government relations
• Healthcare: service providers
• Insurance: advice to policyholders 
• M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
• Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
• Outsourcing
• Private equity buyouts
• Private equity funds (including venture capital)
• Real estate
• Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate 
• Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
• Transport: aviation and air travel – finance 
• Transport: shipping – litigation and regulation

Along with the firm’s rankings, 14 K&L Gates lawyers were identified by The Legal 500 as either a “Leading Individual,” “Next Generation Partner,” or “Rising Star” in their respective practice areas. These lawyers, and the categories in which they are recognized, were:

• Erica Bakies – Government contracts [Rising Star]
• Leah Baucom – M&A: middle-market [Next Generation Partner]
• Calvina Bostick – M&A: middle-market [Next Generation Partner]
• Ndenisarya Bregasi – Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds [Leading Individual]
• Mark Goshko – Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds [Hall of Fame] 
• Amy Conant Hoang – Government contracts [Next Generation Partner]
• Jeffrey King – Transport: shipping [Leading Individual] 
• George Kontakis – Transport: shipping [Next Generation Partner]
• Luke Reid – Transport: shipping [Next Generation Partner]
• Emanuel Rouvelas – Government relations [Leading Individual] 
• Michael Scanlon – Government relations [Leading Individual] and Transport: shipping [Leading Individual] 
• Scott Waxman – Delaware counsel [Leading Individual]
• Ifigeneia Xanthopoulou – Transport: shipping [Rising Star]
• Robert Zinn – M&A: middle-market [Hall of Fame]