Dato’ Seri K. Kumaraendran is the Founding Partner of Kumar & Co. He read law in the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in 1969 and was called to the England Bar in 1969. Subsequently, he was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1970. Dato’ Seri Kumaraendran began practice in Messrs Allen and Gledhill and then proceeded to form Kumar & Co. in 1974.

He began practice as a civil practitioner, however his forte is in Criminal Law namely in the areas of White Collar Crimes, Murder/ Drug trafficking and Kidnapping charges which span over his 50 years of experience.

Dato’ Seri Kumaraendran also has vast experience of over 50 years in Appellate Practice. Dato’ Seri Kumaraendran is a highly respected senior member of the Penang Bar and he held the post of Chairman of the Penang State Bar for several years was the Penang Bar Council representative to the Malaysian Bar. He was also the Chairman of the Bar Council Criminal Law Commitee, Etiquette and Financial Sub – Committees respectively. Dato’ Seri Kumaraendran was also previously appointed by the Disciplinary Board of the Bar Council as the Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee to deal with errant practitioners. Dato’ Seri Kumaraendran rose to become one of the most renowned, celebrated and highly respected criminal advocates with respect to capital offences and subsequently corruption and white collar offences. Amongst his most famous trials includes:

• Defending Beatrice Saubin, a French lady for Drug Trafficking in 1981 ((the first caucasion woman to be charged for drug trafficking in Malaysia whereby her sentence was commuted to 12 years and thereafter she was released on grounds of good behaviour after 8 years);
• Sandra Margaret Birch an Australian woman, also for Drug Trafficking in 1986;
• Malaysian Footballer, Saharuddin in 1992 for Drug Trafficking;
• The Mamak Gang for their infamous daylight robbery of Gold from the Subang Airport in 1995;
• Tan Sri Rahim Noor the Inspector General of Police whom in 1999 was charged with assaulting the Ex-Deputy Prime Minister;
• Senior Lawyer Dato Balwant Singh and Kenneth Lee (son of Tun H.S Lee) both for the charge of murder respectively;
• Tan Sri Irwan Serigar the then Secretary General of Treasury in the Minister of Finance;
• Dato Seri Bung Mokthar Bin Radhin, the Chief Minister (ii) of Sabah;
• Datuk Mohammad Lan Allani the former MARA Inc’s Chairman who is involved in the selling of MARA’s Property in Australia and all three matters are currently in the midst of proceedings;
• Dato Jackson Tan of the Silverbird Group of Companies,
• Gan Boon Aun Transmile Group Berhad,
• Steven How a senior Lawyer who was charged with Criminal Breach of Trust, to name a few.