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Kuvera de Zoysa, LL.M. (Wales)

President’s Counsel

Kuvera de Zoysa, was admitted as an Attorney- at- Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1993 and as a President’s Counsel in 2012. He holds an LL.M. in International Trade Law from the University of Wales.

He has considerable experience in the areas of corporate and commercial law, banking law, international trade law, investment law, insurance law, maritime security law, corporate/commercial based litigation and arbitration and sports law.

Mr. de Zoysa has spearheaded many IPOs, and provided legal opinions and strategic and value adding advisory services on diverse commercial and corporate transactions including restructurings and public private partnerships. He has also successfully appeared in many landmark litigation and arbitration matters involving complex corporate and commercial legal matters both locally and internationally.

He has served as Chairman/ Director on the Boards of many companies, both listed and unlisted and further served on Board appointed audit, legal, risk management, remuneration and executive credit committees of leading corporates. He currently sits on the boards of leading institutions in the financial and leisure sector in Sri Lanka.

He was awarded the “the Young Outstanding Persons” Award the HSBC – JCI TOYP 2007, by the Junior Chamber International Sri Lanka for Legal Accomplishment in recognition of his contribution to the field of Law in 2007 and was a guest speaker at the 32nd Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, Cambridge held on the 3rd of September 2014. Mr. de Zoysa has presented papers on corporate/commercial law related subjects at many forums. Papers on foreign direct investment were submitted by him at Sri Lanka’s National Law Conferences held in 2013 and 2016. He was also part of the committee appointed by the Government of Sri Lanka that drafted the 2017 amendment to the Civil Procedure Code of Sri Lanka, which focuses on minimizing laws delays.