Key facts
- Authorisation
- Recognised body
- Organisation type
- Recognised body, authorised
- Constitution
- Limited liability partnership
- Practising offices
- 4 (3 branches)
- Branch towns
- Paris, Australia, Pittsburgh
- Areas of law reported to the SRA
- 10: Litigation, Commercial property, Financial services, Intellectual Property, Corporate (non-listed), Landlord and tenant, ADR, Corporate (listed), Employment, Criminal
- Companies House status
- Active (OC309508, file 1 May 2026)
- Incorporated
- 7 October 2004
- Company type
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Previous names (SRA)
- Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP; Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP
- SRA firms in City of London
- 754 (176 residential property)
Offices on the SRA record
| Office | Address | District | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head office | One New Change, London, EC4M 9AFDirectionsGoogle MapsApple Maps | City of London | 020 7648 9000 |
| Branch | 116 Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 75008 (France) | outside England and Wales | |
| Branch | Level 31, 1 O'Connell Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia (Australia) | outside England and Wales | |
| Branch | 210 Sixth Avenue, Pittsburgh (United States of America) | outside England and Wales | 0412 355 6500 |
Areas of law reported to the SRA
Residential property is not among the reported areas, so the firm does not appear in the conveyancing lists on this site's town and city pages.
Self-reported by the firm in its most recent annual return to the SRA ("the areas of law that the law firm has told us they delivered"). A lagging description of past work, not a live service list, a specialism claim or a quality mark; it may be up to a year old and is blank for newly authorised firms.
Companies House record
K&L GATES LLP, company number OC309508, limited liability partnership, incorporated 7 October 2004. Status on the Companies House bulk file dated 1 May 2026: Active. Last accounts made up to 31 December 2024 (full). Registered office town: LONDON. Full record on ukcompanyfinder.com.
Companies House also lists 3 earlier registered names, most recently K&L GATES ELLIS LLP.
K&L Gates LLP in gold at London EC4M 9AF, and the 5 nearest SRA-regulated firms in slate.
Outline: City of London district outline (ONS E09000001).
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Source: SRA Firm data web service (terms 1 July 2020, attribution required); firm status, offices and areas of law as reported by the SRA on 6 October 2026. Areas of law are self-reported by each firm in its annual return and describe work it told the SRA it delivered, not a live service menu or a quality mark. Companies House fields from the Basic Company Data bulk file dated 1 May 2026. Geocoding by postcodes.io: contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026. No firm on this site is sponsored, ranked or endorsed, and nothing here implies SRA endorsement of this site.