People
The firm’s partners have extensive experience in providing a variety of legal services to local and international clients
Ranil Angunawela
Ranil Angunawela has extensive legal experience in the private and public sectors in Sri Lanka, and specialises in corporate law with a focus on insurance law. He began his career working for Julius & Creasy and FJ&G de Saram. He was then a counsel in the chambers of Nihal Fernando, P.C. before serving as Director-Legal of the Insurance Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka. Ranil has also served as a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Sri Lanka, and as the Chair of the Insurance Industry Sub-Committee. Ranil currently serves as the legal adviser to the Power Sector Reform Secretariat, and was involved in drafting the Sri Lanka Electricity Act and restructuring the Ceylon Electricity Board. Ranil has an LL.B from Brunel University and an MBA from Edith Cowen University.
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Dr. Gehan Gunatilleke
Dr. Gehan Gunatilleke has extensive experience in litigation, legal research and academia in Sri Lanka. He specialises in civil and international law with a focus on media and technology. He began his career as a counsel in the chambers of M.A. Sumanthiran, P.C., and went on to serve as an advisor to Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the negotiation team that secured Sri Lanka’s readmission to the European Union’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP)+ trade concession facility in 2016. Gehan currently serves as a Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka. He is also an independent non-executive director at Janashakthi Insurance PLC. Gehan has an LL.B from the University of Colombo, an LL.M from Harvard Law School, and a DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford (Twitter: @GehanDG).
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Malsirini de Silva
Malsirini de Silva is a Senior Associate at LexAG with over a decade of legal experience in consulting and research in Sri Lanka. She began her career as a junior counsel in the chambers of Maithri E. Wickremesinghe, P.C and went on to work at the Ministry of Justice, Sri Lanka. Prior to joining LexAG, she served as the Deputy Head of Legal Research at Verité Research. Malsirini has also worked as a legal researcher at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, University of Colombo, and as a visiting lecturer at Sri Lanka Law College. She has an LL.B from the University of Colombo and an LL.M from New York University where she was a Fulbright Scholar.
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Lakmali Algama
Lakmali Algama is a Legal Consultant and Notary Public at LexAG with extensive experience in conveyancing. She was called to the Bar in 2008 and began her career at the Attorney General’s Department, working for nearly four years in the Child Abuse Unit. Lakmali has also consulted for the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority and the Insurance Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka, where she focused on legal enforcement, investigations, and compliance. Lakmali is a graduate of Sri Lanka Law College and holds an LL.B from the Open University of Sri Lanka. She also possesses a Post Attorney Diploma in Intellectual Property Law.
Avishka Jayaweera
Avishka Jayaweera is a Junior Associate at LexAG with experience in legal research and public policy. Prior to joining LexAG, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Advocata Institute, where he specialised in the areas of land policy, alternate dispute resolution, and trade. He has an LL.B (Hons) from the University of Colombo. He has also completed courses in World Trade Organisation (WTO) Law on Anti-Dumping and Safeguard Measures and WTO Law on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures at the World Trade Institute, WTO Jurisprudence and Legal Advocacy at the European Public Law Organisation, and WTO and US Trade Law at the American University, Washington College of Law.
Devinda de Silva
Devinda de Silva is a Junior Associate at LexAG. He obtained an LL.B (Hons) from the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, and was enrolled at the Bar in 2024. As an undergraduate, he completed a course on World Trade Organisation and United States Trade Law and Policy in 2022. He has also represented Sri Lanka internationally at both debating and mooting competitions.
Amindri Sinnathamby
Amindri Sinnathamby is a Junior Associate at LexAG. She was admitted to the Bar in December 2023 after completing her apprenticeship at the Attorney General’s Department of Sri Lanka under the mentorship of Additional Solicitor General Shanaka Wijesinghe P.C. and Additional Solicitor General Parinda Ranasinghe (Jnr.) P.C. Amindri completed her LLB with second-class honours (upper division) from the University of London via CfPS Law School in 2019. Upon the completion of her LLB she joined Varners as a Legal intern where she gained experience in corporate and commercial law.