Finers Stephens Innocent
16 September 2008
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- UK 200 Position: 97
Position: 94
Firm: Finers Stephens InnocentTurnover: £22m
Profit per equity partner: £435K
Earnings per partner: £285K
Equity spread: £263K-£570K
Net profit: £5.9m
Profit margin: 27 per cent
Revenue per fee-earner: £244K
Revenue per lawyer: £293K
Revenue per partner: £667K
Revenue per equity partner: £1.69m
Total number of fee-earners: 90
Total number of qualified partners: 75
Total number of partners: 33
Total number of equity partners: 13
Total number of female partners: 6
Total number of female equity partners: 0
Total number of staff: 168
Leverage ratio (equity partners/fee-earners): 1:4.8INTERNAL PROMOTIONS
2005-06: Litigation 1
2004-05: 0
2003-04: 0LATERALS
2005-06: Property 1, corporate 1
2004-05: Litigation 1, IP 1, property 1
2003-04: Corporate 1Intake as percentage of partnership 2005-06: 11
New female partners as percentage of intake 2005-06: 33
Firms recruited from: Kilpatrick Stockton, Lawrence Graham, Lewis Silkin, McClure Naismith, Rooks Rider
Equity structure: 13 equity partners, 15 non-equity partners
Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: LitigationFiners Stephens Innocent has appointed seven partners in three years, of whom only one is internal. That internal appointment is also the sole new female partner in the past three years.
Appointments have been across the board, but litigation and corporate and property have managed slightly more. Each has expanded by two partners in the past three years.

