A short, simple post – if you want to practice somewhere like Tokyo, you need to know the firms that you want to practice with – and this post is designed to help you figure that out. No frills, bells or whistles – just a long, linked-up like crazy list of firms. A list of major multinational firms with Tokyo offices are listed below:

1. Allen & Overy
2. Arqis Foreign Law Office
3. Ashurst
4. Baker & McKenzie
5. Bingham McCutchen
6. Clifford Chance
7. Cotty Vivant Marchiso & Lauzeral
8. Davis Polk & Wardwell
9. DLA Piper
10. Finnegan Henderson
11. Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer
12. Herbert Smith
13. Hogan & Hartson
14. Hughes Hubbard & Reed
15. Jones Day
16. King & Wood
17. Latham & Watkins
18. Linklaters
19. Lovells
20. Milbank Tweed
21. Morgan Lewis & Bockius
22. Morrison Foerster (“MOFO”)
23. Norton Rose
24. O’Melveny & Myers
25. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
26. Paul Hastings
27. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
28. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
29. Quinn Emanuel
30. Ropes & Gray
31. Shearman & Sterling
32. Sidley Austin
33. Simmons & Simmons
34. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
35. Skadden Arps
36. Sughrue Mion
37. Squire Sanders
38. Sullivan & Cromwell
39. Vinson & Elkins
40. Wakely Foreign Law Office
41. White & Case
42. Wikborg Rein
43. Hayabusa Asuka
44. TMI Associates