Preethie Abeyesekera

Preethie is a full-time Legal Consultant to the firm’s Real Estate & Conveyancing Department.

Background & expertise

She started her legal career in 1980 as an Assistant Manager at the State Mortgage & Investment Bank and was actively involved in handling legal documentation relating to individual housing projects and large-scale property development and construction projects such as the island wide human settlements development program called ‘Gamudawa’ and the ‘Million Houses Program’ launched by the then Government with public and private participation.
In 2005, she joined the National Insurance Corp. Ltd. as the Head of Legal (which was later taken over by Janashkthi Insurance Company (Ltd)) and was responsible for formulating and launching a Title Insurance Scheme. Consequently, as the Assistant General Manager (Legal) and thereafter as its Head of Legal, she was called upon to perform all corporate legal functions of the company and its subsidiaries which included litigation, labour and conveyancing matters, and was involved in drafting instruments covering a wide variety of transactions.
From 2015 to 2017 she served as a Legal Consultant to both Janashakthi Insurance Plc and Orient Finance Plc.
She specializes in property administration laws in which she had extensive training in the early years of her career and the experience gained over a period of 47 years.

Academic & professional qualifications, memberships, associations and accreditations

• Attorney-At-Law & Notary Public (English & Sinhala).
• Commissioner for Oaths.
• Member of the Bar Association of SL (BASL).