The firm has garnered rankings in the prestigious IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms. In its seventeenth year of publication, this guide "lists only corporate and financial law firms at the top of their profession in over 100 jurisdictions and the lawyers with the best track records for advising in each practice area."

Selection into the guide is based on both quality and breadth of work handled by the firm's respective practice groups, and recommendations from independently-researched clients and other in-house counsel.

The firm ranked in the following areas in the 2007 Edition of the IFLR1000

Ranked Tier 3 Banking (Japan)
Ranked Tier 4 Capital Markets – debt and equity (Japan)
Ranked Tier 5 Capital Markets – debt and equity (USA)
Ranked Tier 5 Capital Markets – equity (Hong Kong)
Ranked Tier 2 Financial Services and Regulatory (USA)
Ranked Tier 1 Mergers and Acquisitions (Japan)
Ranked Tier 4 Mergers and Acquisitions (China)
Ranked Tier 5 Mergers and Acquisitions (Hong Kong)
Ranked Tier 3 Project Finance (Japan)
Ranked Tier 5 Project Finance (USA)