Clifford Chance management profit share falls amid revenue and profit dip

Accounts filed at Companies House show Clifford Chance's streamlined executive leadership group saw an average seven per cent fall in their pay packets in the last financial year, while the firm's revenue and profit also fell.

The management committee (which was reduced to 12 members in 2014/15 from 16 in 2013/14 as part of managing partner Matthew Layton's election manifesto) pocketed £14m, compared with £20m the year before. This constituted an average pay of £1.16m, down from £1.25m the previous financial year.

Revenue and profit

Revenue fell 0.7 per cent to £1.35bn from £1.359bn, while the firm’s profit for distribution among members fell four per cent, from £377m to £363m. In spite of this, the results were still the Magic Circle firm’s second best year in terms of global revenue, remaining around seven per cent higher than its turnover in 2012/13 of £1.271bn. Sources: The Lawyer; Legal Business

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