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Rankings published in 2026
Banking - Foreign
Tier 3
18 firms ranked
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Tier 1

A&O Shearman
18 practice areas
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Clifford Chance
20 practice areas
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Tier 2

Baker McKenzie
17 practice areas
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Linklaters
19 practice areas
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Milbank
11 practice areas
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Morrison & Foerster
20 practice areas
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Tier 3

Freshfields
18 practice areas
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Jones Day
7 practice areas
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K&L Gates
3 practice areas
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Latham & Watkins
12 practice areas
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Norton Rose Fulbright
11 practice areas
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Paul Hastings
14 practice areas
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Ropes & Gray
12 practice areas
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
11 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
13 practice areas
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White & Case
16 practice areas
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King & Spalding
7 practice areas
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Mayer Brown
7 practice areas
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Capital markets : Debt - Foreign
Tier 1
11 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Clifford Chance
20 practice areas
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Davis Polk & Wardwell
9 practice areas
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Linklaters
19 practice areas
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
11 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
13 practice areas
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Tier 2

Morrison & Foerster
20 practice areas
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Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
11 practice areas
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Sullivan & Cromwell
12 practice areas
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Tier 3

A&O Shearman
18 practice areas
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Baker McKenzie
17 practice areas
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Freshfields
18 practice areas
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Capital markets : Equity - Foreign
Tier 1
10 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Davis Polk & Wardwell
9 practice areas
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Linklaters
19 practice areas
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
11 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
13 practice areas
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Sullivan & Cromwell
12 practice areas
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Tier 2

A&O Shearman
18 practice areas
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Clifford Chance
20 practice areas
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Morrison & Foerster
20 practice areas
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Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
11 practice areas
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Tier 3

Freshfields
18 practice areas
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M&A
Tier 3
22 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
13 practice areas
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Mori Hamada
13 practice areas
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Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
13 practice areas
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Nishimura & Asahi
13 practice areas
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Tier 2

Baker McKenzie
17 practice areas
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Morrison & Foerster
20 practice areas
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Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners
8 practice areas
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TMI Associates
13 practice areas
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Tier 3

A&O Shearman
18 practice areas
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Atsumi & Sakai
11 practice areas
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Clifford Chance
20 practice areas
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Freshfields
18 practice areas
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Linklaters
19 practice areas
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Miura & Partners
4 practice areas
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Paul Hastings
14 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
13 practice areas
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White & Case
16 practice areas
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Tier 4

City-Yuwa Partners
12 practice areas
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Hibiya Nakata
3 practice areas
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Jones Day
7 practice areas
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O'Melveny & Myers
6 practice areas
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Tokyo International Law Office
2 practice areas
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M&A - Foreign
Tier 2
23 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Davis Polk & Wardwell
9 practice areas
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Morrison & Foerster
20 practice areas
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
11 practice areas
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Tier 2

Baker McKenzie
17 practice areas
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Clifford Chance
20 practice areas
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Freshfields
18 practice areas
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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
9 practice areas
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Linklaters
19 practice areas
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Ropes & Gray
12 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
13 practice areas
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Tier 3

A&O Shearman
18 practice areas
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
16 practice areas
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Jones Day
7 practice areas
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Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
13 practice areas
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Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
11 practice areas
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Sullivan & Cromwell
12 practice areas
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White & Case
16 practice areas
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Tier 4

Ashurst Perkins Coie
13 practice areas
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DLA Piper
12 practice areas
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Norton Rose Fulbright
11 practice areas
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Paul Hastings
14 practice areas
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LPA Tokyo
2 practice areas
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Mayer Brown
7 practice areas
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Formed in 1948, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is a New York-based international law firm with 1,700 lawyers across 22 offices. The firm’s Tokyo office was established in 1987 and operates as a gaikokuho kyodo jigyo (foreign law joint enterprise).

 

Focusses / specialisms 

The firm’s Tokyo team is staffed with bengoshi licensed to practice law and appear in Japanese courts. Its core focus is on structuring and negotiating public and private mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures involving Japanese entities. Its capital markets team handles IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, J-REIT offerings, investment grade and high yield debt offerings, sovereign debt offerings and insurance hybrid debt offerings. The team also assists clients in restructurings and in the formation of investment funds.

 

Key clients 

Key clients of the firm include Toshiba, Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing, NTT Group, Daiwa Securities, Visional, Janus Henderson Group and Sanken Electric.

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Deal Highlights
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Deal Name Deal Date Firm Name Jurisdiction Deal Type Lawyer Names Client Names Client Role
DENSO Corp - Bond Issue
2021-09-01
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Japan
Bond issue
DENSO Corp
Issuer
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) - Bond Issue
2021-04-01
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Japan
Bond issue
Daiwa Securities Group, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Nomura
Underwriter
NTT Finance Corp - Bond Issue
2021-03-01
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Japan
Bond issue
NTT Finance Corp
Issuer
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) - Bond Issue
2021-01-01
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Japan
Bond issue
Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Barclays, Daiwa Securities Group
Underwriter
Olympus Corp. - M&A
2021-06-01
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Japan
M&A
Mitsuhiro Kamiya
Olympus Corp.
Seller
Renesas Electronics Corp - Bond Issue
2021-11-01
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Japan
Bond issue
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Mizuho Bank, Morgan Stanley
Underwriter
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) - Bond Issue
2022-02-01
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Japan
Bond issue
Barclays, Citigroup, Daiwa Capital Markets, Nomura
Underwriter
M&A
Rafique Bachour, who spent nearly 30 years at Freshfields, joins Skadden’s Belgian office amid heightened global regulatory scrutiny
M&A
Andrea Spadacini, partner in the firm’s M&A team in Abu Dhabi, discusses dealmaking in the UAE, from joint ventures to public deals, and its impact on law firms’ strategy
Lawyers at Clifford Chance and Skadden examine how the regulation has driven legal demand at their firms and transformed advisory strategies
Lawyers see the potential for first-mover advantage in advising on a new trading platform for shares, but they are not certain it will achieve all its goals
Lorenzo Corte, partner and global head of transaction practices, discusses a de-SPAC deal using native treasury companies and how the firm is building momentum in this market
New York-based financial services regulatory lawyer Wendy Goldberg discusses how she helps clients remain nimble in our latest 'Five minutes with' series
New hires were made across the corporate, M&A and finance practices in London, New York and Houston
The New York-based lawyer explains why building great relationships motivates him and why his younger brother inspires him
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