Greenberg Traurig – the US ally of City outfit Olswang – is to freeze its pay for equity partners following a $10m (£5.04m) shortfall in year-end collections, writes the Daily Business Review, as US firms brace themselves for an economic downturn.

In a memo to fee earners at the Miami-based firm written at the end of last year, Greenberg chief executive Cesar Alvarez said salaries would remain “at present levels until we get a better financial picture for 2008″.