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Sullivan & Cromwell's practice combines corporate transactions with litigation, investigations, and advice to boards and senior executives. Its published work includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity,…
First-year comp
$235,000+
Market rate
Profits per partner
$7.57M
Sidley Austin's investment funds practice combines advice on financial products with securities regulation, tax, derivatives, capital markets, and enforcement. Its registered funds work includes traditional…
$225,000+
$5.97M
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is devoted to business litigation and arbitration. Its international office network extends across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia, while maintaining a…
$9.54M
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
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
King & Spalding traces its history to Atlanta in the 1890s and operates across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. Its firm materials describe an international practice built around industry…
$7.26M
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
Baker McKenzie's international identity rests on combining local legal knowledge with the coordination required for businesses operating in several countries. Its network spans the Americas, Europe, the Middle East,…
$2.44M
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
Dentons was launched in 2013 through the combination of Salans, Fraser Milner Casgrain and SNR Denton. Further combinations have shaped its development. The firm describes its organization as polycentric: it is…
$959K
Squire Patton Boggs advises private businesses and public-sector clients across an international platform. Its client base ranges from established multinational companies to emerging businesses, individuals, and…
$200,000
Base salary
$2.51M
Seyfarth combines legal practice with a visible focus on the way legal services are organized and delivered. Its work includes employment matters, transactions, and disputes, while its public materials address…
$1.90M
Duane Morris is a full-service law firm with an international practice and a history extending over a century. Its client work covers both disputes and business advice, with established practices in trial work,…
$215,000
$1.68M