Cavinder Bull

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Cavinder Bull

SC
Born
Education University of Oxford (BA)
Harvard University (LLM)
OccupationLawyer
Years active1993–present
Known forCEO of Drew & Napier

Cavinder Bull SC is a Singaporean lawyer and the chief executive officer of the law firm Drew & Napier. He has an active practice in complex litigation and international arbitration. [1]

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Career

Bull graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (first class honours) in Jurisprudence from Trinity College, Oxford University in 1992, and was called to the Bar of England and Wales the next year. [2] [3] He was ranked fourth in the Bar Exams; when he returned to Singapore, he topped the local Bar Exam. [2] He served as a Justices' Law Clerk to former Chief Justice Yong Pung How before joining Drew & Napier in 1994, [4] and left for Harvard Law School in 1995 on a Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship to pursue a Master of Laws. [2] [3] He then passed the New York Bar Exams and joined Sullivan & Cromwell as a litigation associate. [2] [5]

Bull re-joined Drew & Napier and was made a partner in 1998. He is involved in commercial litigation and is cited by Chambers Global and Asia Pacific Legal 500 as one of Singapore's top lawyers. [2] [6] In 2008, he was appointed Senior Counsel, the tenth lawyer to be made Senior Counsel before turning 40. [7] Bull is also occasionally involved in academic writings, having written on subjects such as civil procedure. [8] 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. [9] 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. [10]

Bull was named as the Co-Chairman of the Singapore Exchange disciplinary committee in April 2017, [11] as well as the chief executive officer of Drew & Napier in August 2017. [12] Bull was also appointed to the Disciplinary Tribunal of the International Association of Athletics Federations. [13]

Other Appointments

Directorships

Personal life

Bull and his two elder sisters were raised single-handedly by his mother after his father died when he was 15 months old. [14] He studied at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and Anglo-Chinese Junior College. [15] [16]

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