How the Global 100 has gone from turning over $71.6bn to $85bn in five years.
The world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, costs $403.9m dollars to buy. Mayer Brown, ranked 22nd in the Global 100, could buy one A380 with a year’s total equity partner profits. The equity partnership at Latham & Watkins and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom could probably do a deal to buy three apiece – they almost earn enough cash.
The Boeing 747 has a seating capacity of 345 and would comfortably seat Kirkland & Ellis’ entire equity partnership.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was the world’s busiest airport in 2012, averaging 261,644 passengers a day, more than twice the number of lawyers in the Global 100.
$7bn
The annual revenue of the top three Global 100 firms combined
$6.1bn
The amount The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey has spent on JFK airport
How much revenue DLA Piper generates during a 19-and-half hour flight from New York to Singapore
In 1987, American Airlines saved $40,000 by giving one less olive in each salad served in first class, which is equal to just 10% of the profit per lawyer at Arnold & Porter
