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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 well placed to act for a diversity of clients, ranging from emerging and middle-market companies to Fortune 500 entities, and private equity funds. The department, which is noted for being ‘client-focused, competent and timely‘, operates across a wide spectrum of industries, most notably energy, infrastructure and transport. Robert Zinn
maintains a strong M&A practice in Pittsburgh and New York. Chicago-based Mark McMillan assists middle-market and emerging companies, multinationals and investors in M&A, corporate governance and securities issues. Both practitioners manage the group alongside Rick Giovannelli in Charlotte and Seattle-based Annette Becker. Calvina Bostick in New York often acts for companies and private equity players in M&A involving the worlds of healthcare, financial services, technology and insurance. Leah Baucom is a key name to note in Charlotte for corporate transactions, private equity investments and activist shareholder defense.
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
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- 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
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Finance > Fintech
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- 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
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Government > Government contracts
- 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)
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)