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The partners of global law firm K&L Gates LLP and Australian national firm Middletons have voted unanimously to combine firms effective Jan. 1, 2013. The addition of Middletons' 300 lawyers and four offices ' in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane ' extends K&L Gates' global reach to more than 2,000 lawyers in 46 offices across five continents. The combined firm will employ the K&L Gates name.
Through the combination, K&L Gates greatly enhances its Asia-Pacific regional coverage to 400 lawyers and 11 offices, including a recently announced office in Seoul, and becomes the first firm to combine with an Australian firm to form a single integrated global law firm. In addition to the common brand, from the outset the firm will enjoy full financial, operational, and technological integration, as well as unitary global governance and a single approach to partner compensation.
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