Ian Johnson
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Restructuring/Insolvency
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Band 2
About
Provided by Ian Johnson
Practice Areas
Financing
Restructuring and Insolvency
Career
Ian heads our Restructuring and Insolvency group and advises across the full spectrum of restructuring, refinancing and insolvency matters. He has significant experience advising companies (and their boards), lenders, investors and buyers on complex and international restructuring and distressed situations. Ian also frequently advises governments, central banks and insolvency practitioners.
Ian sits on the City of London Law Society’s Insolvency Committee and was included in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2020. He is ranked in Chambers UK, 2022 which says that “he has particular strength in advising on high-value mandates” and that he is “a leading light, very experienced, very calm and very measured”. He is also listed as a “Leading Individual” by the Legal 500, 2022, and is a “Highly Regarded” practitioner in the IFLR 1000, 2022.
Chambers Review
UK
Ian Johnson is head of the restructuring and insolvency group at Slaughter and May, and is noted for his expert handling of high-value, international restructuring and insolvency matters for corporates, funds and directors.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ian is an incredible lawyer. He provides pragmatic advice on very complex and technical issues. His art is taking the complex and making it very easy and digestible."
"Ian is excellent - he's a calm hand offering well-judged advice in complex situations."
"Ian Johnson is highly experienced and commercially aware of clients' needs."
"Ian is an incredible lawyer. He provides pragmatic advice on very complex and technical issues. His art is taking the complex and making it very easy and digestible."
"Ian is excellent - he's a calm hand offering well-judged advice in complex situations."
"Ian Johnson is highly experienced and commercially aware of clients' needs."