Joseph Latham

Practice Areas

Joe Latham is a partner in the Restructuring Group at Goodmans, which is consistently and widely recognized as Canada’s best and leading corporate restructuring practice.

His practice focuses primarily on commercial insolvencies, including bankruptcies, receiverships and financial and corporate restructurings. Joe regularly advises on Canadian and cross-border matters, and has represented purchasers, debtors, financial institutions, creditor groups and court officers, including monitors, information officers, receivers and trustees in bankruptcy.

Career

Joe is identified as a leading insolvency and restructuring lawyer by Chambers Canada, Chambers Global, IFLR 1000, Who’s Who Legal Canada and by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. He is also recognized as a leading lawyer by Best Lawyers in Canada for insolvency and restructuring and banking and finance and by the Who's Who Legal: Restructuring & Insolvency 2022 Guide.

Professional Memberships

Joe has been an Instructor in the Bar Admission Course for the Law Society of Ontario, an occasional lecturer at the University of Western Ontario Law School, and an adjunct professor at the University of Western Ontario Law School where he developed and taught a course on commercial insolvency. He has been a speaker at numerous legal education seminars and a number of his papers have been published in various forms.

Joe is the Past President of the Turnaround Management Association, Toronto Chapter.

He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, Insolvency Institute of Canada, Ontario Bar Association, Insolvency Section, INSOL International, Turnaround Management Association (Past President of Toronto Chapter), American Bar Association.