Rankings & Recognitions
The Legal 500 Recognises K&L Gates in 2024 Asia Pacific Edition
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 edition has ranked K&L Gates and our lawyers for their work across the firm’s nine core practice areas in eight jurisdictions, with more than 100 lawyers recommended as leading practitioners.
Published 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 was ranked in the following practice categories. In addition, the firm was recommended as a “firm to watch” in Australia in Capital markets, in Hong Kong in Capital markets (equity), and in Singapore in Investment funds (foreign firms) and Shipping (foreign firms).
Australia
- Banking and finance
- Competition and trade
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Energy (transactions and regulatory)
- Fintech and financial services regulatory
- Infrastructure projects and construction
- Intellectual property
- IT and telecoms
- Labour and employment
- Labour and employment: workplace health & safety (WHS)
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Transport: aviation
China
- Corporate and M&A (foreign firms)
- Intellectual property (foreign firms)
- Investment funds (foreign firms)
- Tax (foreign firms)
Hong Kong
- Construction
- Corporate (including M&A)
- Investment funds
Japan
- Banking and finance (International firms and joint ventures)
- Labour and employment (International firms and joint ventures)
Malaysia (as K&L Gates Straits Law LLC)
- Foreign firms
Singapore (as K&L Gates Straits Law LLC)
- Banking and finance (local firms)
- Dispute resolution (local firms)
- Energy (foreign firms)
- International arbitration
- Labour and employment (foreign firms)
- Projects (foreign firms)
Taiwan
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Intellectual property
Twenty-five 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 recognised, were:
Australia
- Competition and trade: Ayman Guirguis [Leading Individual]
- Dispute resolution: litigation: Tim Webster [Leading Individual]
- Infrastructure projects and construction: Sandra Steele [Leading Individual]
- Labour and employment: Stephen Hardy [Next Generation Partner]
- Real estate: Samuel Brown [Next Generation Partner]
- Tax: Betsy-Ann Howe [Leading Individual]
- Transport: aviation: Julie Brown [Rising Star]
China
- Corporate and M&A (foreign firms): Simon Poh [Leading Individual]
- Intellectual Property (foreign firms): Edward Yao [Rising Star]
- Tax (foreign firms): Roberta Chang [Next Generation Partner] and Anita Zhou [Rising Star]
Hong Kong
- Investment funds: Scott Peterman [Hall of Fame]
- TMT: Paul Haswell [Leading Individual]
Japan
- Banking and finance (International firms and joint ventures): Robert Melson [Leading Individual]
- Labour and employment (International firms and joint ventures): Takahiro Hoshino [Leading Individual] and Nobuki Wada [Next Generation Partner]
Singapore (as K&L Gates Straits Law LLC)
- Asset finance (foreign firms): Samuel Kolehmainen [Leading Individual]
- Dispute resolution (local firms): Sreenivasan Narayanan [Leading Individual] and Joan Lim-Casanova [Next Generation Partner]
- Investment funds (foreign firms): Jason Nelms [Leading Individual]
- Labour and employment (foreign firms): Christopher Tan [Leading Individual]
South Korea
- Projects and energy (foreign firms): Sarah Park [Next Generation Partner]
Taiwan
- Capital markets: Jacqueline Fu [Leading Individual]
- Corporate and M&A: Jacqueline Fu [Hall of Fame], James Chen [Leading Individual], and Billy Chen [Next Generation Partner]
To view the firm's full rankings, including the listed lawyers, visit The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 edition.
