K&L Gates LLP comprises nearly 2,000 lawyers who practice in 40 offices located on four continents. We represent leading global corporations, growth and middle-market companies, capital markets participants, and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations, and individuals. Our practice is a robust full market practice — cutting edge, complex and dynamic, at once regional, national, and international in scope.

The corporate practice at K&L Gates is global, integrated, and one of the most substantial in the profession. We are positioned at strategic intersections in the global economy, with a strong local presence in key capital cities and world commercial and financial centers. With approximately 500 lawyers in cities around the world, we provide full-service corporate counsel to facilitate the structuring, financing, and successful completion of domestic, international, and cross-border transactions including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures/strategic alliances, recapitalizations, and public and private debt and equity offerings. We serve as counsel to a broad array of Global 500, Fortune 100, FTSE 100 corporations, privately held and venture-backed companies, partnerships, private equity firms and other investment funds, management groups, and entrepreneurs. Our lawyers in the United States, Europe, Asia, South America and the Middle East are leaders in corporate legal issues relating to the economies of both developed and developing worlds with particular strength in the areas of technology, manufacturing, financial services, energy, transportation, telecommunications, health care, life sciences, and infrastructure.

K&L Gates’ corporate practice in Seattle has deep experience in mergers and acquisitions, financings, public offerings, and other matters. Lawyers in the group represent clients across all industry sectors with a particular focus on technology, energy, and consumer products. Over the past five years, corporate lawyers in the firm’s Seattle office have led approximately 100 M&A transactions with values ranging from $6.3 billion to $2.9 million.