Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has been ranked in nearly 35 practice areas in The Legal 500 United States 2025 edition, with the firm’s accolades including a Tier 1 ranking in the Shipping – litigation and regulation category. The edition also recommends 130 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
• Aviation and air travel – finance
• 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: electric power
• Energy litigation: oil and gas
• Energy regulation: electric power
• Energy regulation: oil and gas
• Energy transactions: electric power
• Environment: litigation
• Environment: regulatory
• Environment: transactional
• Financial Services Regulation: Banking
• Fintech
• General commercial disputes
• Government relations
• Healthcare: service providers
• Insurance: advice to policyholders
• International arbitration
• Life sciences (firm to watch)
• M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
• Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
• Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• Private equity buyouts: middle market (up to $500m)
• Private equity funds (including venture capital)
• Real estate
• Shipping – litigation and regulation
• Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
• US taxes: non-contentious

Along with the firm’s rankings, 11 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 were recognized, are:

• Leah Baucom – M&A: middle-market ($500m-$999m) [Next Generation Partner]
• Calvina Bostick – M&A: middle-market ($500m-$999m) [Leading Partner]
• Mark Goshko – Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds [Hall of Fame]
• Jeffrey S. King – Shipping – litigation and regulation [Leading Partner]
• George Kontakis – Shipping – litigation and regulation [Next Generation Partner]
• Ndenisarya Meekins – Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds [Leading Partner]
• Karishma Page – Government relations [Leading Partner]
• Michael Scanlon – Government relations [Leading Partner] and Shipping – litigation and regulation [Leading Partner]
• Elle Stuart – Shipping – litigation and regulation [Leading Associate]
• Scott Waxman – Delaware counsel [Leading Partner]
• Robert Zinn – M&A: middle-market ($500m-$999m) [Hall of Fame]