K&L Gates Practices, Lawyers Recognized in The Legal 500 UK 2024 Edition

K&L Gates has been recognized in 29 practice areas in The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2024 edition, with more than 70 lawyers recommended as leading practitioners. Published annually, The Legal 500 UK rankings recognize the practice area teams who are providing the most cutting edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel based on feedback from clients.

K&L Gates was ranked in the following practice categories. In addition, the firm was recommended in Hedge Funds as a “firm to watch.”

• 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
• 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 £250m)
• 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 Individual,” “Next Generation Partner,” or “Rising Star” in their respective practice areas. These lawyers, and the categories in which they are recognized, were:

• Catherine Adam - Commercial contracts [Leading Individual]
• Steven Cox - Commercial property: corporate occupiers [Next Generation Partner]
• Gabriela da Costa - EU and competition [Next Generation Partner]
• Rebecca Daniels - Planning [Rising Star]
• Chiara Del Frate - Commercial property: corporate occupiers [Rising Star]
• James Green - Equity capital markets small-mid cap [Leading Individual]
• John Magnin - Commercial litigation: mid-market [Hall of Fame]
• Christian Major - Commercial property: corporate occupiers [Leading Individual]
• Andrew Massey - Retail funds [Next Generation Partner]
• Michelle Moran - Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory [Leading Individual] and Retail funds [Leading Individual]
• Dylan Moses - Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals) [Next Generation Partner]
• Georgina Rigg - Commercial contracts [Rising Star]
• Matthew Smith - Construction: contentious [Leading Individual]
• Paul Tetlow - Equity capital markets small-mid cap [Leading Individual]
• Sarah Turpin - Insurance litigation: for policyholders [Leading Individual]
• Tim Webb - Commercial property: development [Leading Individual]