Legal Business 100 2019: Partner earnings

Top 50 firms ranked by highest top of equity

1-50*		Equity partners: non-equity partners	% of partners that are equity partners	PEP	Equity spread
1	Fieldfisher	83:292	22%	£800k	£250k to £4,300k
2	Slaughter and May	102:7	94%	£2,895k	£1,780k to £3,650k
3	Hogan Lovells	529:262	67%	£1,039k	£320k to £3,200k
4	Clifford Chance	394:168	70%	£1,617k	£740k to £2,800k
5	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	374:0	100%	£1,839k	£430k to £2,710k
6	Ashurst	238:155	61%	£972k	£500k to £2,500k
7	Eversheds Sutherland	230:558	29%	£886k	£415k to £2,425k
8	Allen & Overy	388:148	72%	£1,660k	£960k to £2,410k
9	DLA Piper	484:778	38%	£1,069k	£350k to £2,350k
10	Norton Rose Fulbright	681:484	58%	£687k	£457k to £2,300k
11	Macfarlanes	56:28	67%	£1,723k	£900k to £2,250k
12	Linklaters	443:21	95%	£1,697k	£630k to £2,250k
13	Clyde & Co	219:200	52%	£690k	£300k to £1,725k
14	RPC	74:0	100%	£441k	£192k to £1,700k
15	CMS	602:440	58%	£574k	£160k to £1,522k
16	Mishcon de Reya	53:69	43%	£1,000k	£462k to £1,500k
17	Simmons & Simmons	168:115	59%	£710k	£400k to £1,500k
18	Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner	281:301	48%	£640k	£294k to £1,470k
19	Travers Smith	48:31	61%	£1,235k	£615k to £1,450k
20	Herbert Smith Freehills	323:129	71%	£949k	£540k to £1,450k
21	Taylor Wessing	255:83	75%	£655k	£250k to £1,395k
22	Addleshaw Goddard	111:132	46%	£730k	£296k to £1,285k
23	Stephenson Harwood	92:79	54%	£727k	£403k to £1,208k
24	Watson Farley & Williams	85:69	55%	£559k	£250k to £1,200k
25	Kennedys	82:207	28%	£439k	£210k to £1,200k
26	Pinsent Masons	183:264	41%	£611k	£331k to £1,076k
27	HFW	90:85	51%	£481k	£230k to £1,052k
28	Brodies	38:57	40%	£708k	£370k to £1,000k
29	Gowling WLG	371:180	67%	£510k	£141k to £984k
30	DAC Beachcroft	91:167	35%	£570k	£460k to £963k
31	Osborne Clarke	181:85	68%	£703k	£445k to £946k
32	Bird & Bird	119:190	39%	£575k	£386k to £929k
33	Freeths	41:105	28%	£461k	£200k to £750k
34	Charles Russell Speechlys	74:94	44%	£400k	£240k to £630k
35	Browne Jacobson	20:131	13%	£475k	£200k to £600k
36	Withers	89:91	49%	£354k	£173k to £552k
37	Mills & Reeve	82:40	67%	£416k	£340k to £544k
38	Burges Salmon	65:18	78%	£442k	£239k to £532k
39	TLT	38:87	30%	£350k	£220k to £510k
40	Trowers & Hamlins	67:75	47%	£354k	£188k to £500k
41	Shoosmiths	40:138	22%	£453k	£170k to £476k
42	Penningtons Manches Cooper	35:79	31%	£360k	£260k to £460k
43	Hill Dickinson	51:65	44%	£371k	£212k to £460k
44	Womble Bond Dickinson**	65:55	54%	£292k	£179k to £398k
45	Weightmans	35:154	19%	£289k	£183k to £312k
46	BLM	61:142	30%	£223k	£155k to £304k