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Our team has extensive experience in conducting legal compliance and due diligence audits for clients and in evaluating potential acquisition targets.</p> <p>Our Energy, Infrastructure, and Resources practice advises clients as they finance, site, and develop renewable resource and thermal generating projects, as well as electric transmission and interstate natural gas pipelines projects. The group works on a range of climate change issues, from compliance with greenhouse gas regulations to the creation and trading of renewable energy credits. Our lawyers also participate in the negotiation, drafting, and enactment of statutes, regulations, and executive orders and have testified before legislative and regulatory panels on leading-edge issues for our clients.</p> <p>Clients call upon our Real Estate lawyers to address development, construction, leasing, acquisition, financing, eminent domain, and real estate litigation needs. Our team has worked on some of the most complex public-private joint ventures and infrastructure projects in the Pacific Northwest. We also have lawyers who focus their practices on environmental, land use, and natural resources issues. Our team is recognized as a top-tier group having the broad range of knowledge and considerable experience with large-scale, capital-intensive public and private projects and acquisitions.</p> <p>The Estate Planning and Trusts & Estates practice in Seattle helps individuals preserve and protect their wealth, and pass it on to their intended beneficiaries.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="s-awards"> <div class="s-section-expander"> <button class="s-section-expander__btn"><span class="s-plus">+</span><span class="s-minus">-</span><h3 class="s-section-expander__heading">Accolades</h3></button> <div class="s-section-expander__body s-wb-content"> <h2 class="s-awards__heading">Chambers</h2> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers USA</em> for Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation in Washington, 2024</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers USA </em>for Corporate/M&A in Washington, 2024</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers High Net Worth</em> for Private Wealth Law in Washington, 2024</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers USA</em> for Litigation: General Commercial in Washington, 2024</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers USA </em>for Environment in Washington, 2024</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers USA</em> for Energy & Natural Resources in Washington, 2024</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers USA</em> for Bankruptcy/Restructuring in Washington, 2024</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers USA </em>for Intellectual Property in Washington, 2024</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers USA </em>for Labor and Employment in Washington, 2024</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers High Net Worth</em> for Private Wealth Law in Washington, 2023</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Ranked by <em>Chambers USA</em> in Washington, 2023</p> <ul> <li><span style="display:none"> </span><span style="display:none"> </span><span style="display:none"> </span><span style="display:none"> </span>Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation</li> <li>Intellectual Property</li> <li>Labor & Employment</li> <li>Litigation: General Commercial</li> <li>Private Wealth Law</li> <li>Real Estate</li> <li>Tax</li> </ul> </div> <svg class="s-dots " width="100%" height="10" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"> <defs> <pattern x="0" y="0" width="15" height="10" id="dots4c4b622e-cd75-494f-93a6-aa1a9fb5e943" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse"><rect height="3" width="3" x="0" y="3"></rect></pattern> </defs> <rect x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="10" fill="url(#dots4c4b622e-cd75-494f-93a6-aa1a9fb5e943)"></rect> </svg> <h2 class="s-awards__heading">Other Recognitions</h2> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Named a Tier 1 firm for Mergers & Acquisitions Law in Seattle by Best Law Firms<sup>®</sup>, 2024</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Named a Tier 1 firm in Seattle and Washington, D.C., for Employee Benefits (ERISA) by Best Law Firms<sup>®</sup>, 2023</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Named a Tier 1 firm for Trust & Estate Law in Seattle by Best Law Firms<sup>®</sup>, 2023</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Named a Tier 1 firm in Charlotte, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., for Securities/Capital Markets Law, by <em>Best Law Firms</em><sup>®</sup>, 2023</p> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>Named a Tier 1 firm by Best Law Firms<sup>®</sup>, 2023</p> <ul> <li>Antitrust Law</li> <li>Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law</li> <li>Commercial Litigation</li> <li>Copyright Law</li> <li>Corporate Law</li> <li>Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law</li> <li>Employment Law - Management</li> <li>Energy Law, Environmental Law</li> <li>Labor Law - Management</li> <li>Litigation - Environmental</li> <li>Litigation - Intellectual Property</li> <li>Litigation - Labor & Employment</li> <li>Mergers & Acquisitions Law</li> <li>Native American Law</li> <li>Public Finance Law</li> <li>Real Estate Law</li> <li>Securities/Capital Markets Law</li> <li>Tax Law</li> <li>Technology Law</li> <li>Trusts & Estates Law</li> <li>Utilities Law</li> </ul> </div> <div class="s-awards__item"> <p>57 lawyers in the Seattle office were listed in<em> The Best Lawyers in America<sup>® </sup></em>and 18 lawyers were listed in the <em>Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch</em><sup>®</sup><em> in America</em>, 2024</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> </div> </main> <div class="be-ix-link-block"></div> <footer class="s-page-footer"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-7"> <div class="hidden-xs hidden-sm hidden-md"> <a href="/"><img class="s-page-footer__logo" alt="Firm Logo" src="/assets/images/logo-footer.png" loading="lazy" /></a> <div class="s-page-footer__copyright">©2005-2024 K&L Gates LLP. 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