The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) 2025 edition has recognised K&L Gates and its lawyers for work across the firm’s nine core practice areas in eight jurisdictions, with more than 100 lawyers recommended. To view the firm’s rankings in the UK, please visit The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2025 edition, published in October 2024.

Released 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, as a firm, was recognised in the following categories:

Belgium 

• Aviation
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Competition: EU and global 
• Customs, trade, WTO and anti-dumping
• Industry focus: Transport 

France 

• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation 
• Dispute resolution: International arbitration
• Employment
• Industry focus: IT and Internet 
• Insurance
• Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
• Mergers and acquisitions

Germany 

• Corporate and M&A: Corporate
• Corporate and M&A: M&A: mid-sized deals (sub-500m)
• Intellectual property: Trade marks (Firm to Watch)
• Media: Entertainment
• Public sector: Public procurement
• Real estate and construction: Real estate
• Transport: Advice to the transport sector

Ireland 

• Investment funds

Italy

• Banking and finance: borrower side 
• Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Industry Focus: Energy
• Real estate and construction 
• Restructuring and insolvency 
• Tax

Luxembourg

• Banking, finance and capital markets (Firm to watch)
• Investment funds

Qatar

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution 
• Projects, real estate and construction

United Arab Emirates 

• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Construction
• Dispute resolution: arbitration and international litigation 
• Employment

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

• Nazanin Aleyaseen – Employment, United Arab Emirates [Leading Partner]
• Anna Amprimo – Real estate and construction, Italy [Next Generation Partner]
• Claude-Etienne Armingaud – Data privacy and data protection, France [Leading Partner] 
• Gayle Bowen – Investment funds, Ireland [Leading Partner]
• Simon Chan – Banking, finance and capital markets, Qatar [Next Generation Partner]
• Friederike Gräfin von Brühl – Media: Entertainment, Germany [Next Generation Partner]
• Amjad Hussain – Commercial, corporate and M&A, Qatar [Leading Partner] 
• Annette Mutschler-Siebert – Public sector: Public procurement, Germany [Leading Partner]
• Jaime Oon – Commercial, corporate and M&A, Qatar [Leading Associate]
• Paweł Piotrowski – Projects, real estate and construction, Qatar [Leading Partner]
• Paolo Rusconi – Restructuring and insolvency, Italy [Leading Partner]
• Vittorio Salvadori Di Wiesenhoff – Tax, Italy [Leading Partner]
• Francesco Sanna – Real estate and construction, Italy [Leading Partner]
• Jonathan Sutcliffe – Dispute resolution: arbitration and international litigation, United Arab Emirates [Leading Partner]