Maria Snöbohm was born in 1961 in Stockholm, Sweden, the capital of the country. Her documented life and professional career have been centred on that city.
Her legal training and later work as a lawyer in Stockholm placed her within Sweden's professional legal system, in which the Swedish Bar Association has long regulated the title advokat.
Snöbohm earned a law degree from the University of Stockholm in 1985, the qualification known in Sweden as juris kandidat, or Bachelor of Laws.
The law faculty at Stockholm University was founded in 1907 as a department of political and legal science within Stockholm University College, the institution that preceded the present university. Its founders envisioned an open citizens' university with close links to practical legal life, offering an alternative to the more closed academic environments of older institutions. The faculty is today the largest law faculty in Sweden.
Her documented spoken languages are English, German and French.
Snöbohm worked as a lawyer at Gernandt & Danielsson Advokatbyrå in Stockholm, a firm specialising in general commercial law and corporate law. The firm was founded in 1992 when a group of partners and their colleagues left one of the largest Swedish law firms of the time to establish their own practice. From its beginnings it handled large, complex and often international matters, and it has advised both Swedish and international clients on transactions and disputes.
On 10 January 2022 she became chair of Nämnden för svensk redovisningstillsyn, an independent body within Föreningen för god sed på värdepappersmarknaden, the Swedish Association for Generally Accepted Practice in the Securities Market. The Nämnden reviews the annual and half-year reports, including sustainability reports, of companies listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and NGM, acting under delegation from the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, Finansinspektionen, which keeps ultimate responsibility for supervision.
When her appointment was announced, the association's chief executive described her as a corporate lawyer with a strong background in the securities market and noted that her experience as an advocate and in the court system would be valuable to the board's work.
Snöbohm is a member of the Swedish Bar Association, Sveriges advokatsamfund, the professional organisation for Swedish lawyers. It was formed in 1887 as a voluntary association of academically trained lawyers and gained official recognition when the Swedish Code of Judicial Procedure entered into force in 1948. Only its members may use the protected professional title advokat, and the association's headquarters have been in Stockholm's Diplomatstaden since 1981.
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When her appointment as chair was announced, Katarina Lidén, chief executive of the Association for Generally Accepted Practice in the Securities Market, described her as a well-qualified corporate lawyer with a strong background in the financial market. Lidén added that Snöbohm's experience as an advocate and in the court system would be very valuable to the council's work.
