Cavinder Bull

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. [http://www.drewnapier.com/partners/cavinder-body.htm Cavinder Bull] , www.drewandnapier.com, accessed 7 January 2008.] [http://www.moe.gov.sg/press/1995/pr02595.htm THE SPECIAL ACADEMIC AWARDS 1995 PRESENTATION CEREMONY] , www.moe.gov.sg, 12 August 1995, accessed 7 January 2008.] 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 to former Chief Justice Yong Pung How before joining Drew & Napier in 1994, [Wong, Karen, "Young Seniors", "The New Paper", 6 January 2008.] and left for Harvard Law School in 1995 on a Lee Kuan Yew scholarship to pursue a LL.M.. He then passed the New York Bar Exams and joined Sullivan & Cromwell as a litigation associate. [ [http://www.nylawyer.com/display.php/file=/exam/names/7961ah Candidates Who Passed The July 1996 NYS Bar Exam] , www.nylawyer.com, accessed 7 January 2008.]

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. [ [http://www.chambersandpartners.com/asia/resultseditorial.aspx?person=1&pid=467&grouptype=1&aid=305481&fid=2783&cid=88&solbar=1#305481 Chambers Commentary — Dispute Resolution] , www.chambersandpartners.com, accessed 7 January 2008.] In 2008, he was appointed Senior Counsel, the tenth lawyer to be made Senior Counsel before turning 40. [Loh, Dominique, [http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/320872/1/.html "Six appointed Senior Counsel at opening of Legal Year 2008"] , www.channelnewsasia.com, 5 January 2008, accessed 7 January 2008.] Bull is also occasionally involved in academic writings, having written on subjects such as civil procedure. [ [http://www.singaporelaw.sg/content/CivilProcedure.html Civil Procedure] , www.singaporelaw.sg, accessed 7 January 2008.] 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. [ [http://www.wwlegal.com/Article535.html Government Accepts Key Recommendations of the Third Committee on the Supply of Lawyers] , wwww.wwlegal.com, 17 August 2006, accessed 7 January 2008.]

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