Cavinder Bull, Senior Counsel

Senior Counsel

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, is a lawyer and director of the Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 law firm Drew & Napier

Drew & Napier

Drew & Napier LLC is one of Singapore's leading law firms, with over 250 lawyers and fee-earners.The practice is active in dispute resolution, and also in Corporate Insolvency & Restructuring, Intellectual Property , Competition & Antitrust, Telecommunications, Media & Technology and Tax, with...

. Bull graduated with First Class Honours from Trinity College

Trinity College, Oxford

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, Oxford University in 1992, and was called to the Bar of England and Wales the next year. He was ranked fourth in the Bar Examinations, and returned to Singapore and came in first in the Singapore Bar Exams. He served as a Justices' Law Clerk

Law clerk

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 to former Chief Justice

Chief Justice of Singapore

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 Yong Pung How

Yong Pung How

Yong Pung How, DUT . He was the former Chief Justice of Singapore, serving from 1990 to 2006. Prior to his judicial career, he was a lawyer, banker and senior government official...

 before joining Drew & Napier in 1994, and left for Harvard Law School

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 in 1995 on a Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew

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 scholarship to pursue an LL.M.. He then passed the New York Bar Exams

New York State Bar Association

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 and joined Sullivan & Cromwell

Sullivan & Cromwell

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 as a litigation associate.

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. In 2008, he was appointed Senior Counsel, the tenth lawyer to be made Senior Counsel before turning 40. Bull is also occasionally involved in academic writings, having written on subjects such as civil procedure

Civil procedure

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. He has sat on various review committees, such as one chaired by the Attorney General

Attorney General

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in 2006 regarding the supply of foreign lawyers in Singapore. 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.