Cavinder Bull, Senior Counsel, is a lawyer and director of the Singapore law firm Drew & Napier. Bull graduated with First Class Honours from Trinity College, Oxford University in 1992, and was called to the Bar of England and Wales the next year.[1][2] He was ranked fourth in the Bar Examinations, and returned to Singapore and came in first in the Singapore Bar Exams.[1] He served as a Justices' Law Clerk to former Chief Justice Yong Pung How before joining Drew & Napier in 1994,[3] and left for Harvard Law School in 1995 on a Lee Kuan Yew scholarship to pursue an LL.M..[1][2] He then passed the New York Bar Exams and joined Sullivan & Cromwell as a litigation associate.[1][4]
Bull re-joined Drew & Napier and was made a partner in 1998. He is heavily involved in commercial litigation and is cited regularly by Chambers Global and Asia Pacific Legal 500 as one of Singapore's top lawyers.[1][5] In 2008, he was appointed Senior Counsel, the tenth lawyer to be made Senior Counsel before turning 40.[6] Bull is also occasionally involved in academic writings, having written on subjects such as civil procedure.[7] He has sat on various review committees, such as one chaired by the Attorney General in 2006 regarding the supply of foreign lawyers in Singapore.[8] In 2010, he was named deputy chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, and in 2011, he was appointed vice-president of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group.[9]