Cheng Hock graduated as the top law student in 1995 from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) degree (First Class). He was a member of the NUS team that emerged as world champions in the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in 1994. He also studied at Yale Law School where he obtained an LLM in 1998. He was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1996 after completing his pupillage at Allen & Gledhill and finishing at the top of the Postgraduate Practical Law Course. Between 1996 and 1997, he was a Justices' Law Clerk in the Supreme Court of Singapore. He then practised at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York from 1998 until 1999 before returning to Allen & Gledhill. He became a partner of the Firm in 2000.
Cheng Hock is recommended for his expertise in dispute resolution in The Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2007/2008) and is noted as a leading lawyer in commercial arbitration in Who's Who Legal Singapore (2008). The latter notes that he "'gets results' for clients in many fields."
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