Rick Snow has joined the company as Director of Legal Relations. Mr. Snow will liaison with clients’ legal advisors in the areas of transaction structure and contract negotiations.

Citadel Advisory Group, a merger and acquisition advisory firm located in Fort Collins, Colorado announced that Rick Snow has joined the company as Director of Legal Relations. Mr. Snow will liaison with clients’ legal advisors in the areas of transaction structure and contract negotiations. Chris Frevert, the firm’s principal, said, “The addition of Rick to the Citadel team allows us to expand our already robust list of services to clients and is instrumental in Citadel’s on-going efforts to offer complete merger and acquisition solutions to Northern Colorado’s growing middle market business environment.”
Mr. Snow currently serves as Executive-in-Residence at Colorado State University’s School of Business. He brings to Citadel 33 years of experience as a corporate legal executive in the high technology industry.
For more than 14 years he served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of J.D. Edwards & Company. Mr. Snow joined J.D. Edwards in 1990 where he started and ultimately grew the legal department to a team of 45 associates, was responsible for the contract administration function, property, casualty and liability insurance acquisition, and served as Secretary to the Board of Directors. After negotiating the acquisition of J.D. Edwards with PeopleSoft and assisting with the merger of the two companies, Mr. Snow retired. Prior to joining J.D. Edwards, Mr. Snow served in various high ranking counsel positions with Hathaway Corporation, Global-Ultimaac Systems, Storage Technology Corporation, Tymshare and Memorex.
The Colorado Mountain College system awarded its first Colorado Circle of Excellence Award in 2002 to Mr. Snow as Colorado High Technology Executive of the Year. Since ‘retiring’, Rick has been a member of Colorado State University’s College of Business Global Leadership Council, Chairman of the Student Mentoring Committee, College of Business Executive-in-Residence and taught Corporate Law and Ethics in the MBA program. In spring 2006 he spoke in the Great Entrepreneur Speaker Series program sponsored by the CSU Center for Entrepreneurship.
Mr. Snow received a Juris Doctorate degree from California Western University in 1970 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.