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 |
* Does not include DWF, Irwin Mitchell, Gateley and Keoghs. See methodology
** Womble Bond Dickinson equity spread based on UK partners only