Carlyle Group’s Top Lawyer Gets Nearly $9 Million Pay Package

The Carlyle Group Inc.’s longtime global general counsel Jeffrey Ferguson earned more than $8.7 million last year, according to a securities filing.

Ferguson received $500,000 in base salary, a cash bonus of nearly $1.6 million, and more than $6.4 million in stock awards, Carlyle said in proxy statement filed Wednesday. Ferguson, 58, has worked for Carlyle since 1999. He previously spent time in private practice at Latham & Watkins and Vinson & Elkins.

Carlyle’s filing also detailed a $187 million pay package for Harvey Schwartz, the chief executive officer for the investment giant who joined last year from the Goldman ...