Mr. Chathura A. Galhena,AAL
Secretary
Mr. P. Chamath Jayasekara, AAL
Treasurer
Ms. Mokshini Jayamanne,AAL
Assistant Secretary
Mr. Rajeev Amarasuriya
Mr. Rajeev Amarasuriya is an Alumnus of Royal College, Colombo and holds a Bachelor of Laws LL.B (Hons.) Degree, from the University of Colombo, is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) (UK) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA). He is also an Alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School, Executive Education.
Mr. Amarasuriya is a regular Practitioner before the Appellate Courts specializing in civil litigation including in the areas of Public Law and Commercial Law. He also provides Corporate and Legal Consultancy in a wide range of commercial areas as the Senior Legal Consultant of Amarasuriya Associates and also as the Legal Consultant for several State and Private Sector Institutions. Mr. Amarasuriya commenced his legal practice in the Chambers of Mr. Sanjeeva Jayawardena, President’s Counsel, where he was in active practice for over a decade, before commencing his own legal practice and Chambers.
In 2013, Mr. Amarasuriya was awarded the prestigious CIMA Star Gold Award by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) as the most outstanding CIMA Member below the age of 40 years.
He was also the recipient of the Justice V. Siva Supramaniam Gold Medal for coming first in the order of merit at the Attorneys-at-Law Final Examination in 2003, the Sethukavalar Memorial Prize for Commercial Law at the same examination and has received several other scholarships and awards as well. He also has the distinction of having received the highest number of prizes at his last Royal College Prize Giving.
Mr. Amarasuriya has been a visiting Lecturer and Examiner in Tax Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo and has also been an Examiner at the Sri Lanka Law College.
Mr. Amarasuriya assumed duties as the 24th Secretary of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka on 28th March 2020, having secured over 84% of the outstation vote and 82% of the vote in Colombo. Mr. Amarasuriya is also presently the President of the Alumni Association of the University of Colombo.
Mr. Amarasuriya was a Commission Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka for nearly 5 years and is also a Board Member of the Sri Lanka Accounting Standards and Monitoring Board, a Member of the Incorporated Council of Legal Education of Sri Lanka, and a Member of the Standing Committee on Legal Studies of the University Grants Commission.
Mr. Amarasuriya was the Chair of the National Law Conference 2015 of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and also was Chairman of the Plenary Session on Fundamental Rights at the National Law Conference 2014. He was also the Convenor of the LAWASIA – Sri Lanka 2016 Golden Jubilee Conference held in 2016 in Sri Lanka. He has also presented several papers at various fora and been interviewed both in the print and electronic media in the area of Public and Constitutional Law.
Chamath Jayasekera
Mr. Kaushalya Nawaratne
Mr. Nalinda Indatissa PC
Mr. T. M. S. Pasindu Silva
His alma mater is S. Thomas College Mount Lavinia.
He has over 13 years of practice as an Attorney-at-Law.
In 2005 he graduated from the Faculty of Science of the University of Colombo with a Bachelor’s Degree in Bio-Science and he was also awarded “The Field Ornithology Group Gold Medal for Ornithology” at graduation.