Uditha Egalahewa is a President’s Counsel with over thirty years of experience. Uditha is the head of the chambers and has extensive litigation experience in both original and appellate courts especially dealing with Banking, Commercial, Insurance, Public law, and Employment & Labour law matters.

Uditha is also currently serving as a Commissioner, Legal Aid Commission of Sri Lanka, and as an Independent Director of several public listed companies.

Uditha was, since 1996, the permanent Legal Advisor to the Public Enterprise Reforms Commission (PERC) of Sri Lanka, a public body set up to formulate, execute and regulate the public enterprise reforms strategy of the Government under the aegis of the World Bank. In addition to the above, the legal services of Uditha Egalahewa were called upon in several important bilateral and multilateral negotiations which included the bilateral air services agreement in UAE and Czech Republic, a large number of commercial negotiations and negotiation of connected labour issues. His expertise was sought specifically in the areas of Documentary Letters of Credit, Guarantees, and Bonds in a large number of high net worth transactions. Uditha possesses a thorough understanding of the governance, regulatory and legal structure especially in the areas in which his services have been utilised enabling him to offer his professional services taking into account in a holistic manner the context of the issues.

Uditha Egalahewa served as the Course Director of the Post Attorney Advanced Diploma in Finance, Banking and Insurance Law, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Sri Lanka Law College from 2008 to 2013. He is a senior visiting lecturer to several academic and professional organisations.

LL.M. (Shipping Law & Law of the Sea), International Maritime Law Institute, Malta

LL.M. (Public Law), University of Colombo

Attorney-at-Law, Sri Lanka Law College