OUR GLOBAL PLATFORM K&L GATES OPERATES AT THE CRITICAL CROSSROADS OF THE 21ST CENTURY, OFFERING CLIENTS EXPERIENCED LEGAL COUNSEL AT THE INTERSECTION OF GLOBALIZATION, REGULATION, AND INNOVATION. APPLY A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE To achieve your business goals, your law firm should have a broad global platform and the capabilities to guide you through the legal challenges of the ever-changing international landscape. K&L Gates has a strong presence in key capital cities and world commercial and financial centers. This platform provides the base for our global network of legal resources, enabling us to offer strategic counsel on varied issues around the world. Drawing on our seamless service capabilities, we provide efficient and effective representation that delivers better value for our clients. In fact, our largest clients typically use lawyers in an average of 16 offices. We represent a broad array of Global 500, Fortune 100, and FTSE 100 corporations in every major industry, as well as many other businesses, individuals, and philanthropic organizations. Our more than 2,000 lawyers across five continents counsel clients on their most sophisticated legal challenges in all areas of transactional and regulatory law, as well as litigation and intellectual property. We are leaders in legal issues relating to industries critical to the economies of both the developed and developing worlds— technology, manufacturing, energy, transportation, telecommunications, financial services, health care, life sciences, sustainable development, and infrastructure, among others. We have the knowledge, resources, talent, and experience to help you succeed locally, nationally, and internationally—regardless of your location. GLOBAL PRACTICE GLOBAL LEGAL COUNSEL ACROSS FIVE CONTINENTS Through our worldwide service capabilities, we offer clients broad counsel in nine core practice areas. One of the firm’s premier practices is in the diversified FINANCIAL SERVICES area. We represent a large number of the major financial institutions and securities firms in a variety of disciplines, and our investment management and consumer financial services practices are perennial leaders. The firm’s ENERGY, INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESOURCES lawyers work together across practices to serve energy clients in matters involving litigation, international arbitration, mergers and acquisitions, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, concession deals, permitting, and downstream construction projects. K&L Gates lawyers advise and represent some of the world’s most prominent companies on cutting-edge INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY issues, influencing technology and intellectual property law as our clients shape their industries. Our intellectual property team is one of the strongest in the profession, from providing sophisticated counseling and assistance with the acquisition and global management of IP portfolios, to our extensive litigation experience in leading IP venues. Across the globe, our LABOR, EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE SAFETY lawyers represent clients in the full spectrum of matters arising from the employment relationship. Our CORPORATE AND TRANSACTIONAL practice is one of the most substantial in the profession. Our lawyers in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and the Middle East are highly experienced in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, securities, regulatory, tax, and financing transactions, and recoveries and insolvency disputes. We maintain a balance between companyside and capital-markets clients in virtually every industry segment. The firm’s LITIGATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION lawyers are at their best when handling complex, multidimensional commercial and regulatory disputes. Our dispute resolution practice includes international arbitrations; civil and criminal trials; deal litigation; domestic and international class actions; appellate work; finance recovery and litigation; and labor, employment, and workplace safety litigation and advice. Our e-Discovery Analysis and Technology (e-DAT) group delivers creative, efficient, and cost-effective records management, e-discovery, and litigation readiness solutions. Our global FINANCE practice combines capabilities in banking and asset finance, debt capital markets, and restructuring and insolvency. Our lawyers' close coordination with a web of related specialty practices provides us with unique experience and visibility in diverse markets. K&L Gates’ POLICY AND REGULATORY lawyers are not only familiar with legislative processes, but also guide clients through governmental regulation in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and elsewhere around the world. Our lawyers bring unique perspective to legislative and regulatory matters, having held positions with government agencies around the globe. Our clients also call on us to help solve a broad spectrum of REAL ESTATE-based legal needs, including development and construction, leasing and acquisitions, tax advice and entity structuring, real estate litigation, and land use and zoning. ASIA PACIFIC ASIA K&L Gates has unsurpassed K&L Gates has one of the largest international law practices in Asia, coverage in the Asia Pacific representing public and private companies and state-owned enterprises region, with 400 lawyers in their activities across Asia and abroad. Since the opening of our Hong Kong office in 1996, we have steadily built our Asia practice to include more across 11 offices. In 2014, than 100 legal professionals in our offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, the Financial Times Innovative Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo. Lawyers-Asia Pacific named Our Asia practice is distinct from other international law firms in two the firm the largest U.S.-based respects: (1) all of our lawyers in Asia are based in their respective markets law firm in Asia Pacific, and and do not simply rotate through their offices periodically, and (2) we seek to represent both local and international clients in Asia. These two attributes The Lawyer Asia Pacific 150 provide us with unparalleled experience in, and access to, local markets recognized the firm as the for our clients. Our partners in Asia combine local knowledge of business fastest growing international customs, language, and networks with Western legal training. law firm in the region. AUSTRALIA The firm’s Australian operations provide vast knowledge of the Australian legal marketplace across a wide spectrum of industries. With 300 lawyers located in four established offices in Australia’s leading financial and commercial centers and possessing substantial experience, K&L Gates acts for industry leaders, major corporations, capital markets participants, major financial institutions, and governments on groundbreaking legal transactions, both domestically and internationally. With the extraordinary inbound investment into Australia from the Asia Pacific region, especially from four of Australia’s five largest trading partners—China, Japan, Korea, and India—located in the region, the firm has the resources on the ground to handle the most sophisticated legal requirements. BEIJING SEOUL TOKYO SHANGHAI HONG KONG TAIPEI SINGAPORE BRISBANE PERTH SYDNEY MELBOURNE EUROPE/MIDDLE EAST EUROPE Our lawyers understand the K&L Gates’ European presence has origins in the 19th century, dating needs of large multinational back to predecessor firm Nicholson Graham & Jones’ beginnings in companies doing business in Europe. London in 1858. Today, K&L Gates is located in key cities in the European market, with more than 300 lawyers in Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Paris, and Warsaw. We represent both local and international clients in Europe. Our lawyers understand the needs of large multinational companies doing business in Europe and can respond to those needs creatively and efficiently. Our on-the-ground experience and knowledge enable us to give clients valuable insights into local business policies and practices. We have advised clients at every stage of their development in Europe, from local startups to mid-sized overseas companies looking to enter the market to experienced global businesses with well-established operations in the region. MIDDLE EAST With offices in Dubai and Doha, K&L Gates is positioned to present solutions to clients’ most complex legal challenges in the Middle East, as well as support the legal needs of Gulf Region clients abroad. The location of the Middle East relative to Europe, Africa, and Asia underscores the strength of its trading relationships with the rest of the world. In Doha, we support Qatari clients domestically and abroad, as well as international clients doing business in Qatar, in meeting legal and regulatory needs. Our Dubai team assists clients throughout the Middle East, as well as those companies from around the world looking to do business in the Middle East. BERLIN FRANKFURT WARSAW LONDON BRUSSELS PARIS MILAN DOHA DUBAI THE AMERICAS NORTH AMERICA The 2015 U.S. News-Best With more than 1,300 lawyers in the United States, K&L Gates provides Lawyers ® survey recognized clients access to one of the largest networks of U.S. offices of any law K&L Gates with 225 total firm in the world. This broad platform offers clients local market knowledge and access to both national and international legal capabilities. We provide first-tier rankings, placing the the full spectrum of corporate, litigation, intellectual property, policy, firm among the top two law financial services, and real estate advice through our coast-to-coast firms in first-tier rankings for the fifth year in a row. We were also named “Law Firm of the Year” for Securities Regulation. office coverage. As an example of our deep capabilities throughout the United States, our firm received more than 200 first-tier rankings in the 2015 U.S. NewsBest Lawyers ® survey. Rankings included 35 national first-tier rankings, 190 metropolitan first-tier rankings, and national “Law Firm of the Year” in Securities Regulation. For the third consecutive year, K&L Gates was named to the BTI Consulting Group’s 2015 “Client Service 30,” an elite ranking that recognizes leading law firms in driving superior client relationships according to general counsel. In addition, K&L Gates was named one of the 10 strongest U.S. law firm brands, ranking eighth among firms with the highest brand equity in legal market research company Acritas’ US Law Firm Brand Index 2015. K&L Gates also regularly advises clients on both inbound and outbound matters and transactions involving companies based in Canada and Mexico, including investors and financial institutions, among others. SOUTH AMERICA Brazil is a dynamic and growing economy, home to many of Latin America’s most significant companies, its largest stock market, and in recent years, its most ambitious infrastructure projects. Our lawyers in São Paulo guide clients in establishing and developing operations in Brazil, as well as providing counsel to major Brazilian and Latin American companies. ANCHORAGE PITTSBURGH HARRISBURG SEATTLE PORTLAND CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO PALO ALTO LOS ANGELES ORANGE COUNTY FORT WORTH CHARLOTTE DALLAS AUSTIN HOUSTON MIAMI BOSTON NEW YORK NEWARK WILMINGTON WASHINGTON, D.C. RALEIGH RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK CHARLESTON SÃO PAULO BEYOND THE PLATFORM The firm’s practice capabilities around the globe span beyond the locations of our offices. Africa India K&L Gates has been involved in advising companies The firm’s work in India encompasses a wide range with resources and operations in Africa, from mining, of lawyers and clients around the world involved in oil and gas, and infrastructure projects to sports, inbound and outbound matters. Our lawyers represent investment funds, and government contracts. international clients entering various India markets, This broad experience enables our lawyers to provide our clients with a comprehensive understanding of the continent’s various regulatory requirements and challenges. With our involvement in matters across various African locations, our team has developed strong relationships with African advisors and as well as rapidly expanding regional businesses and ambitious entrepreneurs looking to venture into overseas markets. Members of the firm’s India practice have assisted regional companies in an array of matters, from corporate and tax to international trade and employment, among others. government agencies. Latin America K&L Gates has a growing practice in Latin America, representing Latin American companies, governments, and prominent families, as well as North American, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern financial institutions and multinational corporations doing business in the region. Lawyers in the firm’s Latin America group assist Brazil-based companies with global finance, compliance, commercial, intellectual property, tax, and disputes matters by drawing upon the firm’s worldwide capabilities in a wide variety of disciplines, including energy, infrastructure, and resources. MOMENTUM In the globalized economy of the 21st century, K&L Gates’ global platform is recognized consistently for providing clients with the most The firm’s growth has been dictated by the desire to service clients wherever their legal needs may be. Since K&L Gates represents so many international companies and clients with interests outside of their own country, the firm is committed to provide not only a global perspective, but the local experience required to achieve objectives on which a successful global strategy depends. sophisticated solutions to legal challenges around the world. Accolades K&L Gates was recognized among the TOP 20 LAW FIRM BRANDS IN THE WORLD, according to the 2013 Global Elite Brand Index published by legal market research company Acritas. The index ranks global law firms most favored by counsel and most considered for multijurisdictional deals and litigation. For the fourth year in a row, K&L Gates was ranked by Law360 in the publication's Global 20 survey as one of the "20 LAW FIRMS THAT HAD THE BIGGEST GLOBAL PRESENCE and handled the most large, significant and groundbreaking international and cross-border matters over the past year.” For the fifth consecutive year, K&L Gates was ranked among the top two law firms with the MOST FIRST-TIER RANKINGS in the 2015 U.S. News-Best Lawyers ® “Best Law Firms” survey. This included 190 first-tier metropolitan or state rankings in numerous K&L Gates U.S. office locations and 35 national first-tier practice rankings. For the third consecutive year, K&L Gates was recognized in the BTI Consulting Group’s 2015 “BTI CLIENT SERVICE 30,” an elite ranking that recognizes the leading law firms in driving superior client relationships according to general counsel. BTI also named K&L Gates a “Power Elite,” which recognizes the top 10 firms for client service in the organization's "Client Relationship Scorecard." In 2013, Mergers & Acquisitions magazine named K&L Gates “LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR” in its annual M&A Mid-Market Awards. 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