K&L Gates Recruits Corporate, IP Partners to Los Angeles Office

K&L Gates has added Naoki Kawada as a corporate partner and Ryan Keech as a partner in the intellectual property practice in Los Angeles, the firm said Tuesday.

Kawada, who served as the firmwide chair of the Japan practice at Perkins Coie, handles cross-border corporate, commercial, technology, and intellectual property transactions, and provides general labor and commercial transactional advice, according to K&L Gates.

Keech joins from Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey and focuses on entertainment, business, and non-patent intellectual property disputes, K&L Gates said. He also previously served as in-house counsel for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

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