Cumara Kamalacumar
Associate Director
Biography
Cumara Kamalacumar is an Associate Director in Selvam LLC's Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution team.
Cumara is a disputes lawyer who handles a range of litigation and arbitration matters. Cumara focuses on complex commercial disputes, restructuring & insolvency litigation, professional negligence claims, and white-collar crimes.
Cumara argues various contentious applications in the High Court, including: substantive originating summonses, mareva injunctions, stays of execution, striking-out applications, restructuring and insolvency related applications. Additionally, Cumara has experience with trial advocacy, including cross-examination of material witnesses and making closing submissions.
Cumara is fluent in English and Tamil.
Areas of Practice
- Civil Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- International Arbitration
Admissions
- Advocate & Solicitor to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore
Education
- Durham University, LL.B. (Hons), 2nd Upper, 2016
Experience
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Selvam LLC
- Associate Director, 2024 - present- Senior Associate, 2023 - 2024
- Associate, 2018 - 2023
- Trainee, 2017 - 2018
Publication
Selected Reported Decisions and Publications
- Pang Moh Yin Patricia and another v Sim Kwai Meng [2021] SGHC 11
- Lim Anthony v Gao Wenxi and Aussino International Pte Ltd [2020] SGHC 67
- Supersonic Maintenance Services Pte Ltd v The MCST 3564 [2020] SGSTB 8
- VTB Bank (Public Joint Stock Co) v Anan Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2018] SGHC 250
- "Singapore’s COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Bill",published 3 April 2020"
- Author, "New Tripartite Guidelines on Wrongful Dismissal Offer Much-Needed Guidance", Lexology, 22 May, 2019.
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