It’s enough to make a Wachtell partner drool a little. The average profits per partner at one of the Moscow firms profiled by chief European correspondent Chris Johnson in this issue’s cover story, “Happily Single?,” run a sweet $7.8 million.

There’s a catch, though. The firm, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners (EPAP), has only five equity partners, out of a total head count of 172. (Now that’s leverage.) Name partner Dimitry Afanasiev told Johnson: “There is an expression in America: Show me the money. I’m not sure anyone can show us better money than we can make as a domestic Russian firm.”

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