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Joe Bannister

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Work Department

Business Restructuring and Insolvency

Position

Partner

Career

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. Joe has experience across all industry sectors, ranging from manufacturing and transportation to the services sector and he has dealt with cases in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and the United States. Joe’s work also includes a number of reorganizations or bankruptcies in the financial institutions sector, especially insurers and banks, along with extensive involvement in automotive supply chain cases.
Joe’s international assignments have encompassed a number of offshore jurisdictions, including Bermuda, St Helena the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and the Isle of Man. Joe has worked extensively on the development and implementation of schemes of arrangement and other creditor compromise processes, both in the United Kingdom and in Hong Kong.
Joe has worked at Hogan Lovells and its predecessor firms for his entire career, starting in 1985. Joe 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.

Languages

English, French, German

Memberships

Associate member of R3 (the Association of Business Recovery Professionals); Full member of the ILA; Member of INSOL International

Education

M.A., Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1988; B.A., Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1984

Leisure

Volunteer on Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, travel, photography, classic cars, all aspects of railway and transport history