K&L Gates LLP has been recognized as “Law Firm of the Year” in the Securities Regulation category of the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms®. Only one firm can earn the “Law Firm of the Year” designation in each of the edition’s legal practice areas.

In addition, the firm received nearly 185 first-tier practice rankings and 315 rankings overall. This includes 29 national first-tier rankings and nearly 155 first-tier honors across 22 state and metropolitan regions in nearly 75 different practice areas, positioning K&L Gates as one of the top 10 firms for most overall tier 1 recognitions of the more than 15,000 ranked, an honor the firm has held each year since the inception of Best Law Firms.

Jim Segerdahl, global managing partner of K&L Gates, remarked: “It is an honor to be recognized across multiple practices in the latest edition of Best Law Firms, particularly as ‘Law Firm of the Year’ in Securities Regulation. These recognitions are a testament to our stellar team committed to client satisfaction. We are extremely grateful to be recognized once again by our clients and legal industry peers.”

The practices in which K&L Gates has been recognized with national first-tier rankings in the 2025 edition are:

• Admiralty & Maritime Law
• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Banking and Finance Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Copyright Law
• Corporate Law
• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Energy Law
• Environmental Law
• Health Care Law
• Labor Law – Management
• Litigation – Environmental
• Litigation – Intellectual Property
• Litigation – Labor & Employment
• Litigation – Patent
• Litigation – Securities
• Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants 
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Mutual Funds Law
• Patent Law
• Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law
• Real Estate Law
• Securities Regulation
• Tax Law
• Trademark Law
• Trusts & Estates Law
• Venture Capital Law

The Best Law Firms rankings are based on more than 23 million client and lawyer evaluations of more than 118,000 individual lawyers from more than 22,000 firms, including firms in 75 national practice areas and 127 metropolitan-based practice areas. A complete list of K&L Gates’ 2025 rankings can be found here.