Foreign direct investment
Structuring and completing investment into Sri Lanka for overseas investors and companies, backed by experience across a wide range of investment mandates.
- Market entry and investment structuring
- Regulatory approvals and compliance
- Investment and transaction documentation
- Corporate structuring and governance
- Property matters for foreign investors
- Ongoing advisory support
Public law and writs
Challenging and defending decisions of public authorities, including at the appellate level.
- Writ applications in the Court of Appeal
- Fundamental rights applications in the Supreme Court
- Judicial review of regulatory and administrative action
- Appeals
Commercial agreements
Drafting, reviewing and negotiating the agreements on which commercial relationships depend.
- Supply, distribution and agency agreements
- Service and consultancy agreements
- Shareholders' and joint venture agreements
- Leases and property-related agreements
- Loan and security documentation
- Review and negotiation of counterparties' terms
Litigation
The partners have litigation experience at every level, from the Primary Court to the Supreme Court, as well as before tribunals and statutory bodies.
- Commercial and contractual disputes
- Property and land disputes
- Recovery actions
- Injunctions and interim relief
- Criminal matters, including complaints and defence
- Appeals and revision applications
Fraud and money recovery
Civil and criminal proceedings considered together to recover funds and hold wrongdoers to account.
When money or property has been taken by deception, we assess from the outset which civil and criminal remedies the facts support and coordinate them under one partner, with recovery of the client's funds as the priority.
- Assisting aggrieved parties with complaints and prosecutions
- Civil recovery actions
- Cheating, criminal breach of trust and misappropriation
- Recovery of misappropriated funds and property
Land due diligence and conveyancing
Title work from investigation to execution, so clients know the risk before they commit funds.
- Title searches and chain of title at the Land Registry
- Survey plans, extents and encumbrance checks
- Due diligence reports for buyers, lenders and investors
- Deeds of transfer, gift, lease and mortgage
- Agreements to sell and purchase land
- Notarial execution and registration
Family law
Sensitive matters handled with discretion and the personal attention of a partner.
- Divorce
- Custody and access
- Maintenance
- Related property matters