Legal Business

Flying High – The Legal Business Global 100

How the Global 100 has gone from turning over $71.6bn to $85bn in five years.

The world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, costs $403.9m dollars to buy. Mayer Brown, ranked 22nd in the Global 100, could buy one A380 with a year’s total equity partner profits. The equity partnership at Latham & Watkins and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom could probably do a deal to buy three apiece – they almost earn enough cash.

The Boeing 747 has a seating capacity of 345 and would comfortably seat Kirkland & Ellis’ entire equity partnership.

 

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was the world’s busiest airport in 2012, averaging 261,644 passengers a day, more than twice the number of lawyers in the Global 100.

 

$7bn

The annual revenue of the top three Global 100 firms combined

 

$6.1bn

The amount The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey has spent on JFK airport

 

How much revenue DLA Piper generates during a 19-and-half hour flight from New York to Singapore

 

 

In 1987, American Airlines saved $40,000 by giving one less olive in each salad served in first class, which is equal to just 10% of the profit per lawyer at Arnold & Porter