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Skadden was founded in New York in 1948 by Marshall Skadden, Les Arps, and John Slate. Joe Flom joined as its first associate that year, and Bill Meagher joined in 1959. The firm's history connects its growth to…
First-year comp
$225,000+
Market rate
Profits per partner
$7.01M
Milbank's practice includes financing work connected to projects, technology, and infrastructure. Its public materials highlight transactions involving telecommunications, media, and technology finance, including…
$235,000+
$7.62M
Simpson Thacher's published work includes private equity, fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, financing, and business litigation. Its client matters show recurring connections to investment managers, financial…
$8.57M
Cleary Gottlieb has operated internationally since its founding in 1946. Its own account emphasizes a single integrated partnership, with offices in major financial centers sharing resources across borders. The firm…
$6.05M
White & Case handles cross-border transactions, arbitration, and litigation through a platform combining US, English, and local-law capabilities. Its work involves international businesses and investors whose matters…
$4.41M
Paul Hastings was founded in 1951 and has developed an international practice serving investment banks, asset managers, and corporations. Its current firm materials emphasize financial and business clients, with…
$8.33M
Jones Day presents itself as an integrated international firm in which clients can draw on lawyers across offices, disciplines, and continents. Its recruiting materials emphasize institutional client relationships…
$1.73M
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader brings together the practices of Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. The combined firm's launch materials describe a platform centered on the intersection of business, finance,…
$3.52M
Proskauer advises clients in sports, asset management, healthcare, life sciences, media and entertainment, and hospitality and leisure. Its sports practice has a history extending over six decades and serves both…
$5.02M
Clifford Chance is a Magic Circle firm with 3,700 attorneys globally, offering something no American firm can: a truly integrated international platform with the depth and prestige of a century-old London…
$255,000+
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DLA Piper combines an international legal practice with an industry-based approach to client work. Its materials describe legal teams working across markets and overlaying practice expertise with sector knowledge.…
$4.14M
Linklaters advises corporations, banks, investment funds, and financial sponsors on corporate, finance, and contentious matters across borders. Its history extends back nearly two centuries, and its current materials…
Greenberg Traurig is one of the largest and most entrepreneurial law firms in the world, and its growth trajectory over the past two decades has been remarkable. With approximately 3,200 attorneys in offices across…
Varies by office
$2.90M
A&O Shearman was created in 2024 through the combination of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling. Its identity rests on bringing English-law, US-law and local-law capabilities into the same international practice.…
Norton Rose Fulbright provides business-law services to corporations and financial institutions. Its industry coverage includes financial services, energy and infrastructure, technology, transport, life sciences and…
$2.06M
Gunderson Dettmer focuses on emerging companies and the venture capital and growth equity investors that finance them. Its practice follows businesses from their initial formation through growth and maturity, while…