Consultant

Soraya Gunasekara

Notary Public | Registered Company Secretary | Commissioner For Oaths

Admitted May 2024

A Consultant to the Chambers on commercial transactions and civil litigation, Soraya Gunasekara also carries her own notarial practice and instructing work, having spent four years in corporate, commercial, testamentary and conveyancing practice.

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II · Biography

In their own register.

Soraya Gunasekara advises the Chambers as a Consultant on commercial transactions and civil litigation.

Alongside that she keeps her own notarial practice, attesting and notarising deeds and other instruments, and takes instructing attorney work that includes appearances and applications in court together with arbitration matters.

She spent four years in corporate, commercial, testamentary and conveyancing practice at a Colombo firm, working under its senior partner. That work covered company secretarial matters, drafting resolutions and attending board and general meetings, and the drafting of share sale and purchase agreements, deeds, leases, contracts and powers of attorney.

She read for an LL.B at the University of London and is a Notary Public, Registered Company Secretary and Commissioner for Oaths. At school she took the Cambridge Outstanding Learner Award for the highest mark in Sri Lanka in AS Level History, represented Ladies' College Colombo at hockey and swimming, and still teaches History to Ordinary and Advanced Level students.

III · Expertise

Disciplines held.

Commercial Transactions

Civil Litigation and Instructing Work

Notarial Practice and Conveyancing

Company Secretarial Matters

Testamentary Matters

IV · Qualifications

Education & standing.

Attorney-at-Law

Notary Public

LL.B (Hons) (London)

Registered Company Secretary

Commissioner for Oaths

V · Practice

Where they appear.

Commercial High Court

District Courts

Civil and commercial matters only.

Working languages

English · Sinhala

VI · Instruction

Through the chambers.

Soraya is instructed through the chambers rather than directly. Name Soraya in your enquiry and it will reach them. Conversations with the chambers are confidential, and an enquiry is normally answered within one working day.

Instruct through the chambers

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V · Connected Practice

Where they appear.

Corporate, Real Estate, Construction & Procurement Law

Corporate property, estates, construction, procurement, and transaction support across land, project, and business matters.

Tax Law

Tax disputes, litigation, and compliance-sensitive advice for businesses and individuals facing assessment or regulatory exposure.

Public Policy, Government & International Affairs

Policy advisory, government-facing legal work, and intergovernmental or diplomatic matters requiring discretion and institutional understanding.

VI · Further Reading

Selected insights.

Corporate & Investment

Sri Lanka's Investor Visa: The Thresholds, and Where the Rest of It Lives

Two tiers and a fee are in the regulations. The bank accounts, the qualifying investments, the sector limits and the continuing conditions are not — they sit in a departmental guideline and in foreign exchange regulations made elsewhere, and any of them can stop an application that satisfies the amount.

Legal Heritage

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and the Office of Chief Justice

The court and the office were made in the same instrument, by royal charter, in 1801. What followed was thirty years of patching, a Benthamite reformer who wanted one system of courts for the whole island, and a charter in 1833 that largely got it. The structure a Sri Lankan lawyer works in today is recognisably the one that charter built.

VII · The Chambers