| 1 | Kirkland & Ellis | $8,801,740,000 | 3,828 | $2,200,000 | $9,253,800 | 
By profits per partnerThis is a list of global law firms ranked by profits per equity partner in. Firms marked with "" are structured as a Swiss association.
These are estimates and equity partners can make vastly different salaries inside the same firm.
| Rank by PPEP | Firm | Equity partners | 2021/22 PPEP | | 1 | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | 91 | $8,400,000 | | 2 | Kirkland & Ellis | 490 | $7,388,000 | | 3 | Davis Polk | 161 | $7,010,000 | | 4 | Sullivan & Cromwell | 165 | $6,366,000 | | 5 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison | 168 | $6,162,000 | | 6 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | 203 | $5,980,000 | | 7 | Cravath, Swaine & Moore | 97 | $5,803,000 | | 8 | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | 173 | $5,746,000 | | 9 | Latham & Watkins | 550 | $5,705,000 | | 10 | Weil, Gotshal & Manges | 182 | $5,181,000 | | 11 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | 321 | $5,088,000 | | 12 | Milbank | 163 | $5,033,000 | | 13 | Debevoise & Plimpton | 143 | $5,011,000 | | 14 | Paul Hastings | 177 | $4,703,000 | | 15 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | 165 | $4,700,000 | | 16 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | 351 | $4,440,000 | | 17 | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft | 60 | $4,382,000 | | 18 | Cahill, Gordon & Reindel | 53 | $4,351,000 | | 19 | King & Spalding | 205 | $4,374,000 | | 20 | Ropes & Gray | 268 | $4,333,000 | | 21 | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | 122 | $4,252,000 | | 22 | Dechert | 141 | $4,236,000 | | 23 | Cooley | 238 | $4,064,000 | | 24 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | 176 | $3,903,000 | | 25 | Fenwick & West | 95 | $3,743,000 | | 26 | Sidley Austin | 330 | $3,718,000 | | 27 | Goodwin Procter | 259 | $3,690,000 | | 28 | Slaughter & May | 100 | $3,599,000 | | 29 | Proskauer Rose | 163 | $3,510,000 | | 30 | White & Case | 363 | $3,509,000 | | 31 | Vinson & Elkins | 121 | $3,508,000 | | 32 | Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati | 165 | $3,318,000 | | 33 | Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch | 85 | $3,280,000 | | 34 | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | 163 | $3,093,000 | | 35 | Alston & Bird | 155 | $3,075,000 | | 36 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | 111 | $3,073,000 | | 37 | McDermott, Will & Emery | 216 | $3,051,000 | | 38 | Winston & Strawn | 129 | $3,021,000 | | 39 | Shearman & Sterling | 113 | $3,005,000 | | 40 | Clifford Chance | 369 | $2,918,000 | | 41 | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr | 244 | $2,808,000 | | 42 | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy | 57 | $2,768,000 | | 43 | O'Melveny & Myers | 169 | $2,706,000 | | 44 | Freshfields | 392 | $2,691,000 | | 45 | Allen & Overy | 464 | $2,684,000 | | 46 | Linklaters | 457 | $2,572,000 | | 47 | DLA Piper | 417 | $2,496,000 | | 48 | Hogan Lovells | 391 | $2,482,000 | | 49 | Mayer Brown | 282 | $2,465,000 | | 50 | Morrison & Foerster | 193 | $2,463,000 | | 51 | Covington & Burling | 322 | $2,300,000 | | 52 | Greenberg Traurig | 315 | $2,276,000 | | 53 | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton | 160 | $2,259,000 | | 54 | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman | 131 | $2,105,000 | | 55 | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo | 96 | $2,102,000 | | 56 | McGuireWoods | 189 | $2,053,000 | | 57 | Baker Botts | 134 | $2,032,000 | | 58 | Katten Muchin Rosenman | 120 | $2,006,000 | | 59 | Holland & Knight | 233 | $2,005,000 | | 60 | Baker McKenzie | 676 | $1,833,000 | | 61 | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius | 746 | $1,831,000 | | 62 | Foley & Lardner | 151 | $1,812,000 | | 63 | Baker & Hostetler | 123 | $1,780,000 | | 64 | Reed Smith | 274 | $1,735,000 | | 65 | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough | 167 | $1,704,000 | | 66 | Perkins Coie | 185 | $1,660,000 | | 67 | Ashurst | 241 | $1,615,000 | | 68 | Herbert Smith Freehills | 328 | $1,602,000 | | 69 | Hunton Andrews Kurth | 183 | $1,601,000 | | 70 | Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer | 292 | $1,531,000 | | 71 | Squire Patton Boggs | 133 | $1,518,000 | | 72 | Seyfarth Shaw | 201 | $1,489,000 | | 73 | Jones Day | 846 | $1,446,000 | | 74 | Polsinelli | 136 | $1,406,000 | | 75 | Troutman Pepper | 279 | $1,386,000 | | 76 | K&L Gates | 186 | $1,381,000 | | 77 | Simmons & Simmons | 185 | $1,376,000 | | 78 | Eversheds Sutherland | 242 | $1,338,000 | | 79 | Duane Morris | 146 | $1,262,000 | | 80 | Venable | 183 | $1,235,000 | | 81 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith | 148 | $1,226,000 | | 82 | Cozen O'Connor | 196 | $1,097,000 | | 83 | Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner | 225 | $1,080,000 | | 84 | CMS | 684 | $1,065,000 | | 85 | Norton Rose Fulbright | 657 | $1,054,000 | | 86 | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart | 183 | $1,051,000 | | 87 | Faegre Drinker | 387 | $984,000 | | 88 | Clyde & Co | 225 | $973,000 | | 89 | Pinsent Masons | 185 | $970,000 | | 90 | Fox Rothschild | 239 | $932,000 | | 91 | Blake, Cassels & Graydon | 279 | $921,000 | | 92 | Bird & Bird | 153 | $900,000 | | 93 | AllBright Law Offices | 355 | $777,000 | | 94 | Gowling WLG | 386 | $649,000 | | 95 | Littler Mendelson | 382 | $621,000 | | 96 | Zhong Lun | 393 | $614,000 | | 97 | Kim & Chang | 210 | $567,000 | | 98 | King & Wood Mallesons | 689 | $511,000 | | 99 | Deheng Law Offices | 505 | $405,000 | | 100 | Dentons | 2,094 | $379,000 | | 101 | Grandall Law Firm | 597 | $364,000 |
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