SunCrest Law / Robert Snyder
Robert Snyder
Robert built SunCrest Law to give growing and mid-market companies the kind of legal judgment usually available only through a general counsel's office or a large firm's regulatory group.
He came to it the direct way. As Senior Director and Corporate Counsel at a NASDAQ-listed company, he chaired the AI committee, led privacy program modernization, authored the enterprise incident response plan, and served as legal lead on operations spanning more than fifteen jurisdictions — including the structuring of two Asian market exits.
Before that he practiced in the Corporate and International Group at Kirton McConkie, Utah's largest law firm, advising technology and multinational clients on data privacy, cross-border transactions, and regulatory compliance.
Earlier in his career he spent eight years in chief-of-staff roles supporting the executive leadership of a global organization with 30,000 employees, managing a worldwide government relations program and building the reporting structures that connected regional leadership to enterprise strategy. That background shows up in how he works: the deliverable is never just a document, it is a process the client's team can run.
He practices in English and Spanish.
- Admitted
- Utah · New York
- Certifications
- CIPP/US · CIPP/E · Fellow of Information Privacy (IAPP)
- LL.M.
- European Law, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) — cum laude
- J.D.
- Boston University School of Law
- B.S.
- Accounting, Brigham Young University
- Chair, Cyberlaw Section, Utah State Bar — organized a day-long AI conference featuring the general counsel of Adobe and the chief executive of an AI security company.
- Advisory Board, Center for Constitutional Studies, Utah Valley University.
- Presentations to the Utah State Bar and TAGLaw on transferring personal data from Europe.
Speaking
Available for CLE, board education, and industry sessions on AI governance, privacy program design, and incident response readiness. Get in touch.
Privacy & technology
- Utah — Third Country Assessment
OneTrust DataGuidance, May 2023 (co-authored)
- Data Privacy Protections Come to Utah
Legal Alert, Kirton McConkie, May 2022
- Navigating Changes to European Union Data Privacy
34 Utah Bar Journal No. 6, 33 (Nov./Dec. 2021)
- China Plans Implementation of New Personal Data Privacy Law
Legal Alert, Kirton McConkie, October 2021
- Is Religious Freedom Good for Business?: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis
10 Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 4 (May 2014) (co-authored)
- Liberté Religieuse en Europe: Discussing the French Concealment Act
18 No. 3 Human Rights Brief 14 (2011)
- International Legal Regimes to Manage Indigenous Rights and Arctic Disputes from Climate Change
22 Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law & Policy (Feb. 2011)