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K&L Gates Offices
HEARST TOWER
214 NORTH TRYON STREET, 47TH FLOOR
CHARLOTTE, NC 28202
NORTH CAROLINA
United States
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Leah Baucom
Career
Leah Baucom is a partner in K&L Gates’ Charlotte office, where she focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and general corporate matters. She has represented both public and private companies—including private equity sponsors—on a range of matters, including leveraged buyouts, public and private divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, special committee representation, activist stockholder defense, and other strategic investments and sales.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
(Next Generation Partners)K&L Gates is home to 400 corporate lawyers located across five continents and is extremely active on the cross-border front; its lawyers operate across a wealth of industries, with particular accomplishment in the technology, life sciences, healthcare, financial services, energy, transport and manufacturing fields. Robert Zinn
splits his time between New York and Pittsburgh and notably serves as global leader of the firm’s global FinTech practice. Elsewhere, Annette Becker has garnered 25 years’ worth of experience in M&A, corporate governance and strategic relationships, operating from the Seattle office, while over in Chicago, Mark McMillan serves a broad client roster, ranging from owners of Fortune 500 companies through to emerging entities. At the more junior end of the partnership spectrum, Calvina Bostick, a New York lawyer, is acclaimed among media and insurance players whereas Charlotte-based Leah Baucom is developing a prominent reputation for spin-offs, LBOs, shareholder defense and special committee representation matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m) - United States > M&A/corporate and commercial
- Next Generation Partners - United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Transport > Shipping - litigation and regulation
Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Delaware counsel
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Government > Government relations
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Transport > Aviation and air travel - finance
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Media, technology and telecoms > Fintech
- Government > Government contracts
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate