Our Senior Counsel
Our Senior Counsel are widely regarded as amongst the best in the region. They command industry prestige and respect, and are favoured by clients for the most complex and significant matters.
Their top-tier advocacy skills and breadth of experience have earned them numerous accolades in leading international publications such as Chambers and Partners and Legal 500.
Jimmy Yim, SC
Chairman
Drew & Napier LLC
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Jimmy Yim is the Chairman of Drew & Napier LLC and was the Managing Director of Singapore’s most celebrated Dispute Resolution practice for 15 years.
Jimmy has over three decades of experience in civil and commercial law and international arbitration. In the span of his career, he has represented clients in a wide spectrum of disputes ranging from energy projects, building and construction, infrastructure, to telecommunications, technology and joint-ventures, appearing as lead counsel before the Supreme Court and international arbitration tribunals under the rules of the SIAC, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL. He is also a recommended international arbitrator, Pacific International Arbitration Centre, Vietnam.
Jimmy was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1983 and appointed Senior Counsel in 1998. He was also admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Jimmy graduated with top honours from the National University of Singapore where he also gained his LL.M.
Jimmy is a board member of public-listed and private companies.
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Cavinder Bull, SC
Chief Executive Officer
Drew & Napier LLC
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Cavinder Bull is Chief Executive Officer of Drew & Napier LLC. He is also co-head of the firm’s Competition Law & Regulatory Practice.
Cavinder has an active practice in complex litigation and international arbitration for over 25 years. He is experienced in handling a wide range of disputes including corporate disputes, fraud, insolvency, private equity disputes and antitrust. He also acts as counsel in both commercial and investor-state cases, and as arbitrator in ICSID, NAFTA, PCA, ICC, SIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, KCAB and ad hoc arbitrations.
Cavinder is also Vice-President of the SIAC Court of Arbitration, a Governing Board member of ICCA, former Vice-President of the Asia-Pacific Regional Arbitration Group, and was on the World Bank Sanctions Board.
Cavinder was one of a handful to be appointed Senior Counsel before the age of 40. He has been called to the Bar in Singapore, New York and England and Wales.
Cavinder graduated with First Class Honours in law from Oxford University and received his LL.M from Harvard Law School.
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Blossom Hing, SC
Director, Dispute Resolution and Corporate Restructuring & Workouts
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Blossom focuses on complex corporate / commercial disputes as well as restructuring and insolvency related cases. Her experience spans almost 30 years, and she has been consistently recognised in international ranking publications such as The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Chambers Asia-Pacific, IFLR1000, asialaw Leading lawyers, asialaw Profiles and Best Lawyers International for her dispute resolution and restructuring/insolvency work.
She is a trial lawyer in court (the Singapore High Court, Appellate Division and Court of Appeal) and arbitration (SIAC, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, AIAC and IICRA) cases, handling corporate commercial disputes including shareholder and derivative actions, trust claims, crypto-related claims as well as contentious insolvency related cases.
Blossom is on the panel of arbitrators of the SIAC and HIAC. She is also a member of the court of arbitration of the Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre and a council member of the ICC Institute.
Blossom recently won the global award for Restructuring & Insolvency Lawyer of the Year at the Lexology Index Awards 2024 held in London, formerly known as the Who’s Who Legal awards. She was named Litigator of the Year in Southeast Asia in both the 2021 and 2023 Asian Legal Business (ALB) Women in Law Awards, identified as one of the top 15 female lawyers in Asia by ALB in 2024 and named one of Asia’s top 50 most highly recommended arbitration and litigation practitioners in ALB’s Asia Super 50 Disputes Lawyers in 2021. Blossom also won the Woman Lawyer of the Year (Law Firm) in the 2020 ALB SE Asia Law Awards. |
Emeritus Professor Jeffrey Pinsler, SC
Consultant
Drew & Napier LLC
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Jeffrey started his career in Drew and Napier having pupiled and then practiced here from 1981 to 1985. He then joined the National University of Singapore and embarked on an illustrious career in legal academia, focusing on civil justice, procedure, evidence and ethics. His books and articles are frequently relied on by judges and lawyers as authoritative sources and have also been cited in hundreds of judgments. He has produced, and contributed to, over 30 major text-books and reference works to date in his capacity as Author and/or Editor in Chief or Consultant Editor, and has written multiple articles. He has also appeared as amicus curiae before the Court of Appeal and given presentations in his areas of expertise in various countries.
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