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Pay and Bonuses

Big bonuses see women fall further behind men at Wall Street investment banks

Investment banks paid out bigger bonuses in 2024, and men have benefited more than women

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Dubai’s finance sector has boomed. Now it needs regulators

In high demand, compliance staff are tripling their salaries as the UAE rolls out the red carpet

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Banks lock in key staff with big retention bonuses as private credit circles

Senior investment bankers are being offered lucrative pay packets that will keep them at their firms for years. Can they stave off the appeal of private credit and private equity?

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A&O Shearman boss Hervé Ekué on skyrocketing pay rises: ‘We haven’t reached the top’

Ekué speaks to Financial News in his first sit-down interview since A&O’s mega-merger with Shearman & Sterling last year

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Kirkland & Ellis partner pay hits $9.2m

The law firm’s average equity partner profit passed $9m for the first time

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Deutsche Bank top investment banker bonuses jump 50% as ranks of millionaires swells

The German lender paid more than 600 key employees average bonuses of €965,000 as investment bank revenue increased

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Santander cuts back senior investment banker bonuses by 8%

The Spanish lender has reduced average bonuses for so-called material risk takers within its investment bank to €841,893

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Skadden eyes non-equity partner switch amid law firm talent battle 

Elite US law firm mulls introduction of salaried partners

Latham & Watkins and the race for $20m partner pay

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Latham & Watkins’ $20m pay ratchets up pressure: ‘Don’t call him, call me’

The once-egalitarian Latham & Watkins has changed its points system to reward star performers — and partners are fighting each other to prove they’re worth the $20m+ pay packets on offer.

NatWest hikes top banker bonuses 27% as markets business swings to profit

Revenue at NatWest Markets rises 16% to £1.2bn

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Barclays hikes bonuses for top staff in investment bank by 21%

The UK lender has increased variable compensation for key staff known as material risk takers

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Ken Moelis handed $25m retention bonus as banks try to lock in key executives

Investment banks are increasingly handing long-term incentives to convince key staff to stick around

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Lawyer pay explosion ‘not sustainable,’ says Simmons & Simmons boss

‘There’s always a reckoning,’ says Simmons & Simmons managing partner Jeremy Hoyland

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