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Richard Snowden QC
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Position
Specialist in company law, corporate insolvency, financial services and related commercial litigation (75% contentious business, 25% non-contentious advisory work); reported cases include Paramount Airways (Powdrill v Watson), BCCI (no 10), Barings sale to ING, Heron Group Plc, Law Debenture v Ural Caspian, Re Astec (BSR) Plc, Re Osiris Insurance Ltd, Arrow Nominees Inc v Blackledge, Mahomed v Morris, Re Leyland Daf Ltd, Re T & N Ltd, Ultraframe v Fielding, Re Sovereign Marine, Re SSSL Realisations, OFT v Abbey National and others (bank charges).
Career
Called 1986; Lincoln’s Inn; silk 2003; joint editor Lightman and Moss, ‘The Law of Administrators and Receivers of Companies’, Sweet & Maxwell (4th ed, 2007), joint editor ‘Company Directors: Law and Liability’ (Sweet & Maxwell, looseleaf).
Member
Chancery Bar Association; Commercial Bar Association (member of the Executive Committee); Insolvency Lawyers’ Association; Insolvency Rules Committee.
Education
Sir William Turner’s Grammar School; Downing College, Cambridge (MA): Harvard Law School (LLM).
Leisure
Rugby, golf, cricket, music, photography.
Practice Areas
Commercial; Financial services; Insolvency and corporate reconstruction