The highest paid partner at Salans made €1.4m (£1.1m) in 2011 according to limited liability partnership accounts recently filed with Companies House, up from €1.2m (£957,045) the previous calendar year.

The accounts show that by the close of 2011 the firm, currently in merger talks with SNR Denton, had 189 partners, up from 175 at the close of 2010.