K&L Gates Opens Dubai Office [UPDATE]

Pittsburgh’s K&L Gates, which in March opened a Singapore office, has launched a footprint in Dubai, UAE.

It’s the firm’s first office in the Middle East, and its 33rd overall.

K&L Gates LLP employs over 1900 attorneys worldwide, and is ranked as the 7th largest law firm in the world. It was formed in January 2007, by the merger of Pittsburgh-based Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham with Seattle-based Preston Gates & Ellis, co-founded by William H. Gates, Sr.

UPDATE

K&L Gates has hired Paul de Cordova away from Ashurst, where he managed the firm’s Dubai office. The firm will also move senior dispute resolution partner Neal Brendel to Dubai from its Pittsburgh office.