Joe Bannister

Joe Bannister is a partner in the London office of Hogan Lovells and an international restructuring and insolvency lawyer. For nearly 30 years, he has helped the entire range of restructuring stakeholders address and resolve the most difficult restructurings and insolvencies. Mr. Bannister has experience across all industry sectors, ranging from manufacturing and transportation to the services sector, and he has dealt with cases in the U.K., Europe, Asia and the U.S. His work also includes a number of reorganizations or bankruptcies in the financial institutions sector, especially insurers and banks. Mr. Bannister 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. He has written and spoken extensively on industry and technical matters. Between 2012 and 2014, he was co-editor of INSOLWorld, and he writes regularly for industry and legal publications in the restructuring field. Mr. Bannister is a regular speaker at external and internal conferences and is listed in Chambers and Legal500. He received his B.A. in 1984 and his M.A. in 1988 from Magdalene College in Cambridge.