Joe Bannister
Partner
London
Languages
English, French, German
Joe Bannister is a seasoned, international, restructuring and insolvency lawyer. For nearly 30 years, Joe has helped the entire range of restructuring stakeholders to address and resolve the most difficult restructurings and insolvencies. He has experience across all industry sectors, ranging from manufacturing and transportation to the services sector and he has dealt with cases in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US. Joe's work also includes a number of reorganizations or bankruptcies in the financial institutions sector, especially insurers and banks.
His international assignments have encompassed a number of offshore jurisdictions, including Bermuda, the BVI, Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man. Joe focuses on the development and implementation of schemes of arrangement and other creditor compromise processes, both in the UK and in Hong Kong.
He has worked at Hogan Lovells and its predecessor firms for his entire career, beginning in 1985. He was elected to the partnership in 1997. Joe is admitted as a solicitor in London and Hong Kong, where he worked between 1998 and 2002 and again in 2014 and 2015 as the partner in charge of the firm's business restructuring and insolvency practice in Hong Kong and China.
Joe has written and spoken extensively on industry and technical matters. Between 2012 and 2014, he was co-editor of INSOL World and writes regularly for industry and legal publications in the restructuring field. He is a regular speaker at external and internal conferences and is widely recognised as a leading practitioner in directories such as Chambers and Legal 500.
Joe Bannister is described as 'very forensic in his approach and analysis' as well as a 'very persistent practitioner who gives first class advice'. He is particularly valued in matters with a cross-border flavour. His commercial nous is also very highly valued by his clients.
'Department head Joe Bannister is ‘a star, with a great sense of humour when the going gets tough’'. Insurance Restructuring and Insolvency
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