Gaurawa Liyanage

Experience

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  Harbour View Ice Co. (Pvt) Ltd.

  Jul 2006 - Sept 2022

  Director

  Harbour View Ice Co. (Private) Limited is a small - medium enterprise that manufactures quality ice for the fisheries industry and is based in the Fishery Harbour Galle, in Southern Sri Lanka. He was appointed to the Board of Directors in September, 2010 and his work description is as follows;01) Legal aspects; To ensure “Legal Compliance” with regard to all Environmental laws, Labour laws, Trade Laws, Corporate & Company Law, Taxation, Litigation and handle all Notarial work.02) Employee Appraisals & Recruitment; He is a member of the Interview Panel and is responsible for selection of suitable new recruits and for identifying and establishing key performance indicators (KPI’s). 03) Spearhead global sourcing; He is responsible for procuring and maintaining good relations and liaising with suppliers of machinery and spares parts from multiple global suppliers.04) Customer Relations and Credit Approvals; He is also responsible for maintaining good customer relations and for the approvals of credit facilities for our customers. Show less

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  Simon & Associates, Law Firm

  May 2011 - Dec 2011

  Legal Apprentice

  Commenced “Legal Apprenticeship” at Simon & Associates in May, 2011 in order to familiarize himself in the ordinary course of business of an Attorney-at-Law and attended the law firm regularly for a period over six (06) months to give himself the opportunity to practically understand the details of the law firm/chamber practice of an Attorney-at-Law.

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  Gregory's Partners Attorney’s at Law

  Jul 2018 - now

  Founder Partner

  Areas of legal practise include:01) Commercial, Corporate & IP Lw Drafting & preparing NDA’s, MOU’s, JVA’s, service agreements, M&A investment agreements, engaging negotiations & dispute resolutions for clients. Overseeing intellectual property matters (registration & filing). 02) Notarial/ Conveyancing: 12 years’ experience as a Notary Public in Sri Lanka with drafting & preparing commercial & residential transfer deeds, commercial & residential leases agreements, power of attorney documents, affidavits, conducting title searches/clearances, preparing title pedigrees, obtaining stamp duty valuations/opinions, stamp duty calculations & payments, registration of documents, advising clients on commercial & residential property sales, purchases and lease related matters and negotiating for and on behalf of clients to optimise property investments. 03) Corporate Secretarial: 11 years’ experience as a Registered Company Secretary in Sri Lanka conducting Company Incorporations, filing forms with the registrar of Companies etc. 04) Foreign Direct Investments (FDI): Advising clients on the most suitable approaches and corporate structures to follow and channel investments to optimise returns on investments and safeguard their profit repatriations.05) Other experience: Overseeing construction related client payments/disbursements to contractors against payment certificates (issued by project managers), issuing notices to contractors to meet deadlines, update & maintain project costs/payment summaries, providing project cost/payment summaries to clients upon request from time to time, liaising with project managers to negotiate and re-negotiate project activities (performance, delivery timelines etc.) with contractors and managing litigation matters with external & in-house counsel for clients. Most of the above work experience was gathered while training interns/apprentices and overseeing workloads of juniors/ legal executives achieving successful teamwork Show less

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  Queenspark Agriculture (Private) Limited

  Jan 2020 - now

  Director

  Queenspark Agriculture (Private) Limited operates a 25 acre Tea garden & 10 acre rubber plantation in Udugama and 10 acre coconut plantation in Kuliyapitiya Sri Lanka with over 35 employees.