Joanne Rumley
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Restructuring/Insolvency
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About
Provided by Joanne Rumley
Practice Areas
Joanne leads our Restructuring and Insolvency offering collaborating with a broad range of businesses, directors, stakeholders and other professional advisors. Her role is focused on opportunities for turnaround rescue and restructure but also involves managing formal insolvency processes. She works closely with distressed equity and debt investors as well as with turnaround professionals and insolvency practitioners.
Joanne is regularly found in the board room providing strategic advice to directors of businesses close to insolvency, particularly around their duties and responsibilities when dealing with distress. She also has significant experience advising stakeholders on managing their risk and exposure to businesses in financial difficulty. Joanne and her team are specialists in the investment bank special administration regime overseeing the return of significant values of client monies and custody assets across a portfolio of these cases.
Joanne is proud of the Restructuring and Insolvency Team’s approach and says ‘we always try to be accessible, flexible, responsive and adaptable, seeking to deliver technical advice in a practical yet commercial way, with an ability to innovate and think creatively in order to deliver the best solutions for our clients’.
Chambers Review
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Joanne Rumley is head of the restructuring and insolvency department at the firm. She has expertise in all insolvency and distressed business issues, and assists directors and stakeholders with distressed company trading and debt assignments. She also advises joint administrators on various aspects of appointment.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Joanne was always attentive and on hand to address needs. She offers sound, commercial and practical advice across all insolvency scenarios."
"She is great at dealing with complex legal problems, considering new situations and how to unwind them well."
"She is responsive, helpful and provides clear, straightforward advice."
"Joanne was always attentive and on hand to address needs. She offers sound, commercial and practical advice across all insolvency scenarios."
"She is great at dealing with complex legal problems, considering new situations and how to unwind them well."
"She is responsive, helpful and provides clear, straightforward advice."