The A-List: Sri Lanka’s Top Lawyers 2022

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Following an extensive nomination process, Asia Business Law Journal unveils its top performers of the country’s legal profession.

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Hansi Abayaratne

	Hansi Abayaratne DL & F De Saram
Key practice areas: Corporate; property; startup; tax; IP

Ayomi Aluwihare

	Ayomi Aluwihare FJ & G de Saram
Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets; corporate & commercial; power & energy; technology, media & telecommunications

Aparrajitha Ariyadasa

	Aparrajitha Ariyadasa ATD Leagal Associates
Key practice areas: Cyber law; data privacy; IP

GG Arulpragasam

	GG Arulpragasam Arulpragasam Associates
Key practice areas: Arbitration & ADR; commercial; land; family law; civil

Peshala Attygalle

	Peshala Attygalle Nithya Partners
Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets; e-commerce, fintech, blockchain & cryptos; project finance; securitisation & structured finance

Buwaneka Basnayake

	Buwaneka Basnayake FJ & G de Saram
Key practice areas: Capital markets; corporate & commercial; joint ventures; private equity, venture capital & funds; restructuring & insolvency

Sakeen Cader

	Sakeen Cader Julius & Creasy
Key practice areas: Administrative & constitutional law; admiralty & maritime; Islamic finance; litigation & arbitration

Prabash De Saram

	Prabash De Saram DL & F De Saram
Key practice areas: Banking & finance; tax; real estate; restructuring & insolvency

Savantha De Saram

	Savantha De Saram DL & F De Saram
Key practice areas: Foreign investment; infrastructure; construction; M&A; IT

Chanaka de Silva

	Chanaka de Silva Nithya Partners
Key practice areas: Litigation; ADR; projects & project financing; construction; labour

Mariathas Jude Dinesh

	Mariathas Jude Dinesh M&D Law Chambers
Key practice areas: Real estate

Uditha Egalahewa

	Uditha Egalahewa UE Chambers
Key practice areas: Insurance & reinsurance; labour & employment; litigation; shipping

Tivanka Ekaratne

	Tivanka Ekaratne Ekaratne Associates
Key practice areas: Arbitration & ADR; defence; international trade & bilateral investment treaties; litigation; customs law

Manjula Ellepola

	Manjula Ellepola FJ&G de Saram
Key practice areas: Real property

Anjali Fernando

	Anjali Fernando FJ & G de Saram
Key practice areas: Competition & antitrust; joint ventures; taxation; construction; hospitality & travel

Amila Fernando

	Amila Fernando Julius & Creasy
Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; M&A; capital markets; corporate administration & secretarial services; security documentation

Lihini Fernando

	Lihini Fernando Velox Legal
Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; conveyancing & property development; employment; negotiation, dispute resolution & arbitration; civil litigation

Tilani Ford

	Tilani Ford FJ & G de Saram
Key practice areas: Banking & finance

Jivan Goonetilleke

	Jivan Goonetilleke DL & F De Saram
Key practice areas: Admiralty & shipping; labour, employment & immigration; litigation & dispute resolution

Naomal Goonewardena

	Naomal Goonewardena Nithya Partners
Key practice areas: Banking & finance; tax

Asanga Gunawansa

Asanga Gunawansa
Colombo Law Alliance

Tel: +94 773 938 342
Email: asanga.gunawansa@colombo-law.com
Key practice areas: Arbitration & ADR; corporate & commercial; infrastructure; project finance; construction

Asanga Gunawansa holds a PhD in law from the National University of Singapore and an LLM in International Economic Law from University of Warwick. He currently heads Colombo law Alliance, a law chamber that specialises in commercial law, project financing, foreign investment law, construction law, and arbitration.

Gunawansa is an adjunct professor at the University of Moratuwa and a member of the Board of Studies of the Council of Legal Education of Sri Lanka. He is a consultant to the Green Climate Fund, South Korea, and a member of the executive committee of the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law.

He is also an international arbitrator and has worked in the past for the UN as a legal officer and for the National University of Singapore as an assistant professor. He has published several books, including “The case book on Asia Pacific construction law”.

Anandhiy Gunawardhana

	Anandhiy Gunawardhana Julius & Creasy
Key practice areas: Capital markets (derivatives & financial products); corporate & commercial; insurance; IT, media & telecommunications; litigation & arbitration

Mahinda Haradasa

	Mahinda Haradasa Varner
Key practice areas: IP; corporate & commercial; labour & employment

Janaki Kumaraguru

	Janaki Kumaraguru Julius & Creasy
Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets (derivatives & financial products)

Himali Mudadeniya

	Himali Mudadeniya FJ & G de Saram
Key practice areas: Banking & finance; shipping & logistics

Nithianandan Murugesu

	Nithianandan Murugesu Nithi Murugesu & Associates
Key practice areas: Dispute resolution; IP, shipping; construction

Aloka Nandasena

	Aloka Nandasena DL & F De Saram
Key practice areas: Foreign investment; banking & finance; M&A; competition & antitrust; capital markets & securities

Laila Nasry

	Laila Nasry Tiruchelvam Associates
Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; infrastructure; M&A; power & energy; pharmaceuticals & healthcare

Sarravanan Neelakandan

Sarravanan Neelakandan
Sarravanan Neelakandan Law Associates

Tel: +94 77 3185 285
Email: snlaw@snlaw.lk
Key practice areas: Dispute resolution; arbitration; corporate/M&A; energy & infrastructure; foreign investment; restructuring & insolvency, commercial transactions

Sarravanan Neelakandan is the founder and managing partner of Sarravanan Neelakandan Law Associates. He has been practising in the legal profession for more than 16 years, with a wide-ranging legal practice in commercial law, corporate law, banking and finance law, foreign investment, infrastructure projects and dispute resolution.

Before founding Sarravanan Neelakandan Law Associates, he was a partner of the law firm of Neelakandan & Neelakandan (formerly Murugesu & Neelakandan) for 12 years. He serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Law Journal of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka.

He is also the general secretary of the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners’ Association of Sri Lanka (BRIPASL), which is the Sri Lanka chapter of INSOL International, organisation of professionals specialising in insolvency and business reconstruction and recovery

Advised two of the main contractors, Taisei Corporation of Japan and the China National Technical Import & Export Corporation (CNTIC)), of the USD741 million Southern Transport Development Project (STDP) for the construction of the southern expressway. Advised Taisei Corporation of Japan, on the USD590 million Outer Circular Highway (OCH) – Phase I, under the Greater Colombo Urban Transport Development Project.
Advising Asia Power, operator of the 51MW Sapugaskanda Power Station, on various legal matters including the Power Purchase Agreement with the Government of Sri Lanka and extension thereof.
Advised a consortium of US-based investment banks on its lending and security documentation with local entities of the manufacturing conglomerate loan facilities of USD95 million.
Advises Allianz Insurance Lanka and its affiliated company Allianz Life Insurance Lanka, both of which are fully owned subsidiaries of Allianz SE of Germany on incorporation, as well as general legal advice on corporate and insurance or regulatory matters.
Advises Dufry AG on its entry into Sri Lanka as operator of duty-free shops at the Bandaranaike International Airport and also advised on drafting and negotiating the Concession Agreement with the Sri Lankan Government.
Currently advising the developers of the project for re-development for the “Bambalapitiya Flats”, in connection with a USD300 million ICC arbitration claim arising out of a PPP Agreement with the National Housing Development Authority of the Ministry of Housing and Construction of the Government of Sri Lanka.

Dushyantha Perera

	Dushyantha Perera Sudath Perera Associates
Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; inbound investment; M&A; power & energy; private equity, venture capital & funds

Lakshana Perera

	Lakshana Perera Sudath Perera Associates
Key practice areas: Dispute resolution; commercial & corporate litigation; IP litigation; industrial disputes & labour

Sudath Perera

	Sudath Perera Sudath Perera Associates
Key practice areas: Litigation; IP; labour & employment; conveyancing

Seanika Pulle (nee Perera)

	Seanika Pulle (nee Perera) Nithya Partners
Key practice areas: Real estate; succession planning (family office); conveyancing title & notarial documents

Nirusha Ranjitkumar Ratnatunga

	Nirusha Ranjitkumar Ratnatunga Nithya Partners
Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; inbound investment; joint ventures; M&A; private equity, venture capital & funds

Avindra Rodrigo

	Avindra Rodrigo FJ & G de Saram
Key practice areas: Litigation; commercial & corporate dispute resolution; arbitration

Diluka Rodrigo

	Diluka Rodrigo Julius & Creasy
Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; insurance; taxation

Mohanlal Rupesinghe

	Mohanlal Rupesinghe John Wilson Partners
Key practice areas: Litigation

Aruna Samarajewa

	Aruna Samarajewa Nithya Partners
Key practice areas: Litigation; arbitration; e-commerce; consumer affairs & customs; IP

Rajaratnam Selvaskandan

	Rajaratnam Selvaskandan Varner
Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; construction & project development; banking & finance

Shane Silva

	Shane Silva Julius & Creasy
Key practice areas: Capital markets (derivatives & financial products); corporate & commercial; M&A; security documentation

Priya Sivagananathan

	Priya Sivagananathan Julius & Creasy
Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets (derivatives & financial products)

Michael Sproule

	Michael Sproule DL & F De Saram
Key practice areas: Real estate, moveable property & trusts

Jayanta Swaminathan

	Jayanta Swaminathan Julius & Creasy
Key practice areas: Banking; capital markets; M&A; project development

S ThuraiRaja

	S ThuraiRaja Neelakandan & Neelakandan
Key practice areas: IP; private client, wills & probate

Ali Tyebkhan

	Ali Tyebkhan LegalBase
Key practice areas: Banking & finance; corporate & commercial; IP; private client; private equity, venture capital & funds

Shehara Varia

	Shehara Varia FJ & G de Saram
Key practice areas: IP; labour & employment; M&A

Anomi Wanigasekera

	Anomi Wanigasekera Julius & Creasy
Key practice areas: IP; litigation & arbitration

Yashara Wijesinghe

	Yashara Wijesinghe Ekaratne Associates
Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; labour & employment

Arittha Wikramanayake

	Arittha Wikramanayake Heritage Partners
Key practice areas: Capital markets; corporate & commercial; inbound investment; joint ventures; M&A

John Wilson

	John Wilson John Wilson Partners
Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; IP; labour & employment; litigation; real estate

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