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Sean Snook

Sean Snook

Twenty Essex, London

Work Department

Arbitration and mediation; Banking and derivatives; Commercial law; Conflicts of laws; Insurance and reinsurance; International trade, commodities and sale of goods; Private international law; Shipping

Position

Sean advises and represents clients in a broad range of commercial and private international law disputes.

He has appeared in the Court of Appeal and the High Court (particularly the Commercial Court). Sean has also been instructed to represent clients before all the major arbitral bodies (including the LMAA, GAFTA, FOSFA, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, London Metal Exchange and Refined Sugar Association).

In addition to trial work, Sean has extensive experience in interim proceedings, in particular obtaining freezing orders, inspection orders and anti-suit injunctions. He has also assisted in mediations.

Before joining Chambers, Sean worked for 11 years at Morgan Grenfell & Co Ltd (the investment banking division of Deutsche Bank AG). He was an Associate Director specialising in project and export finance, syndicated loan finance, and corporate and debt restructuring.

https://www.twentyessex.com/people/sean-snook/

Mentions

London Bar

Banking and finance (including consumer credit)

Leading junior4
Sean Snook – Twenty Essex ‘Sean is an excellent barrister. His written work is excellent and his oral advocacy skills are superb. He is reliable and extremely diligent and does what it takes to get the job done. His technical skills in his field of focus are superb.’
London Bar

Commodities

Leading junior3
Sean Snook –Twenty Essex ‘A reliable, extremely diligent and superb advocate.’
London Bar

Shipping

Leading junior3
Sean Snook –Twenty Essex ‘Sean is very thorough, has a phenomenal eye for detail and an extraordinary capacity to assimilate and distil complex technical issues into digestible points. He is very strong on the law and advocates in a clear and compelling way.'