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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)Fielding an ‘extremely knowledgeable and professional’ team, K&L Gates has extensive expertise in the tech, healthcare, and financial services sectors, frequently assisting clients with traditional M&A as well as with bet-the-company deals. The practice has maintains advises Fortune 500 companies as well as venture capital funds and is jointly headed by Charlotte-based growth equity specialist Rick Giovannelli and Seattle-based cross-border M&A expert Annette Becker. In New York, Robert Zinn
is an expert on strategic and cross-border M&A and Calvina Bostick is noted for her expertise with private equity investments, while Kevin Stichter focuses on cross-border acquisitions from Charlotte. Seattle lawyer Jessica Pearlman is an expert on securities and finance matters, while Leah Baucom concentrates on general corporate issues from Charlotte. Pittsburgh lawyer David Edgar, who primarily acts on behalf of boards of directors, and Aleksandr Imas, who practices from Seattle, are further names to note.
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
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- 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
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate