Lord Justice Snowden -
Judge

The Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Snowden was educated at Cambridge University and Harvard Law School. 

He became a barrister in 1986 and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2003.  As a barrister he specialised in company law, corporate insolvency and commercial litigation, appearing in many of the major cross-border insolvency and restructuring cases, including those connected with the collapses of BCCI and Lehman Brothers.   

He became a High Court Judge of the Chancery Division in 2015 and gave many leading judgments in insolvency and scheme of arrangement cases, including Davey v Money, Nortel, Noble Group and Carluccio’s.  He also sanctioned some of the first Part 26A restructuring plans after the new procedure was introduced in the UK in 2020, including those in Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Active. 

Sir Richard was a Supervising Judge of the Business and Property Courts in the North of England from 2019 to October 2021, when he was promoted to become a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in London.  In the Court of Appeal he has given a number of significant judgments in insolvency and company matters, including most recently Compound Photonics, Denaxe v Cooper and AGPS Bondco (Adler).   

He is one of the consultant editors of Lightman & Moss on Administrators and Receivers of Companies, and continues to be a contributor to Bork & Van Zwieten, a Commentary on the European Insolvency Regulation (2^nd ed).