Mr. Nihal Jayawardene LL.M. (Lond.), President’s Counsel has years of experience as the Head of the Corporation Division of the Attorney General’s Department of Sri Lanka. Mr. Jayawardene has served as a member of legal advisory teams that assisted in the execution and implementation of large investments in Sri Lankan Airlines, Sri Lanka Telecom, Colombo Port and in various established insurance institutions and plantation companies among others. He has vast experience in negotiating international bilateral air-services agreements. He commands extensive legal knowledge and expertise in Company Law, Aviation Law, Banking and Finance, Corporate Law, agreement/contract drafting and negotiations, project structuring including PPPs, Arbitration and Alternate Dispute Resoulution along with Civil and Commercial Litigation. He was a member of the core team that drafted and finalised the Companies Act that was enacted in 2007. His recent notable contributions include assisting in developing a legal framework for the Special Economic Zone - Colombo Port City, thus making him a competent and preferred Counsel for advice and assistance on investments in the Colombo Port City.

nihal@capitalcitylaw.lk
+94 (77) 3070682

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Mrs. Shamalie Gunawardana commands extensive expertise in laws governing public finance, investment and on the alienation of property to foreigners. While being the Head of Legal of the privatisation arm of the Government, she has acquired hands on experience in facilitating private investments in strategic assets and services - bunkering, insurance, telecommunication, airlines, plantations etc. She has undergone numerous knowledge enhancement programmes at institutions of global repute. She has served in distinguished Boards and in several senior positions, including that of the Director General - Legal Affairs Department of the General Treasury and she has spaere headed legal and fiscal reform initiatives of Sri Lanka facilitated by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank respectively. She is a legal consultant to several companies and other institutions. She served as a member of the core group that finalised the legal framework for the Special Economic Zone - Colombo Port City. She is presently a director of DFCC Bank PLC, HayCarb PLC, Member of the Presidential Expert Working Committee on the Implementation of Data Protection in Sri Lanka and a Member of the Company Law Advisory Commission of Sri Lanka.
shamalie@capitalcitylaw.lk
+94 (77) 7741674

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Mrs. Priyanthi Pieris, Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, commands unparalleled knowledge and hands-on experience in Capital Market Transactions, including corporate listings on the trading floor of the Colombo Stock Exchange, take-overs and mergers, amalgamations, re-purchase of shares, splitting of shares, issue of convertible warrant and listing thereof, de-listing of Public Quoted Companies etc. She is well versed with the compliance and regulatory requirements of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) and the Department of Foreign Exchange of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka pertaining to foreign investments in Sri Lanka. Mrs. Pieris has served as a Consultant to the Ministry of Finance and to the CSE, for several years. She has served as a Member of the Committee of the SEC that finalised amendments to the Company Takeovers and Mergers Code, the Corporate Governance Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Law Commission of Sri Lanka. She currently serves on several Boards of Listed and Private companies.


priyanthi@capitalcitylaw.lk
(+94) 114610476

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