Lord Justice Richard SNOWDEN

Lord Justice (Richard) Snowden was called to the Bar in 1986 and was appointed a QC in 2003. He specialised in company law and corporate insolvency, appearing in many of the leading cross-border insolvency and restructuring cases such as Garuda, T&N, Lehman Brothers, Rodenstock and Apcoa.

He became a High Court Judge of the Chancery Division in 2015 and was appointed as the Supervising Judge for the Business and Property Courts in the North and North East in September 2019. On the High Court bench he gave significant judgments in insolvency and scheme cases such as Davy v Money, Noble Group and Carluccio’s. More recently he sanctioned some of the first restructuring plans under the new Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006, such as Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Active.

Lord Justice Snowden was promoted to the Court of Appeal with effect from 1 October 2021.

He is one of the lead editors of Lightman & Moss on Administrators and Receivers of Companies, and a contributor to Bork and Van Zweiten, a Commentary on the European Insolvency Regulation. He regularly lectures and participates in conferences in the UK and abroad.