Cavinder Bull

Cavinder Bull, SC, 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; when he returned to Singapore, he topped the local 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 of Singapore 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]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cavinder Bull, www.drewandnapier.com, accessed 7 January 2008.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 THE SPECIAL ACADEMIC AWARDS 1995 PRESENTATION CEREMONY, www.moe.gov.sg, 12 August 1995, accessed 7 January 2008.
  3. ↑ Wong, Karen, "Young Seniors", The New Paper, 6 January 2008.
  4. ↑ Candidates Who Passed The July 1996 NYS Bar Exam, www.nylawyer.com, accessed 7 January 2008.
  5. ↑ Chambers Commentary — Dispute Resolution, www.chambersandpartners.com.
  6. ↑ Loh, Dominique, "Six appointed Senior Counsel at opening of Legal Year 2008", www.channelnewsasia.com, 5 January 2008, accessed 7 January 2008.
  7. ↑ Civil Procedure, www.singaporelaw.sg, accessed 7 January 2008.
  8. ↑ Government Accepts Key Recommendations of the Third Committee on the Supply of Lawyers, www.wwlegal.com, 17 August 2006, accessed 7 January 2008.
  9. ↑ http://www.singaporelawwatch.sg/remweb/legal/ln2/rss/legalnews/73159.html?utm_source=email%20subscription&utm_medium=email&title=Cavinder%20Bull%20named%20VP%20of%20Asia%20Pacific%20Regional%20Arbitration%20Group&notShowClose=y