AI Issue 5 2017

62 Acquisition International - May 2017 Leading Adviser of the Year - Sri Lanka award winner Andrew Jayatunga shares his thoughts on the firm’s unrivalled expertise in the core areas of legal and commercial activity. Andrew Smiths Partners Leading Adviser of the Year ndrew Smiths Partners has unrivalled expertise on the core areas of commercial activity including property law/real estate, foreign investment, intellectual property including trademarks, patent, industrial designs; litigation; corporate; commercial; dispute resolution; arbitration as well as civil & commercial litigation. In addition, the firm offers services concerning money recovery, employment/labour law; construction contracts/disputes, maritime contracts/ disputes, family law, enforcing foreign judgments, conveyancing, DEEDS, lease agreements, last wills, testamentary matters, resealing foreign probates, setting up/incorporate companies, BOI matters, company secretarial services and transactions on day-to-day operations. Andrew Smiths Partners guarantees that first-class advisers are available at all times and that clients will receive ongoing personal service. In 2016, the firm won the Global Law Experts Annual Award for the Intellectual Property Law firm of the year - Sri Lanka. In addition, Andrew Smiths partners ranked as ‘International Star for the Leadership in Quality (ISLQ)’, under Gold category award by the international quality convention held in France in April 2017. Currently the firm has clients (including fortune 500 companies) in 22 countries and works with over 50 law firms all over the world including the UK, USA, India and China. Andrew then details the firm’s client base and expert team of professionals in his own words. “Our clients are market leaders in various industries including banking and finance, manufacturing, retail, power, oil and gas, education, health care and insurance, agility and property development, technology, software, electrical, chemical, Internet, media equipment, pharmaceutical, automotive and consumer products including a word leading communication equipment manufacturers, infrastructure contractors, trust companies. Company: Andrew Smiths Partners Name: Andrew Jayatunga LLB, LLM, Attorney at Law Email: trademark@ srilankalawyer.com Web: www.srilankalawyer.com Address: 309B, Kalapaluwawa Rajagiriya, Colombo, Sri Lanka Phone: +94112794316 An Ongoing Personal Service A 1705AI44 “Our typical clients are currently high net worth individuals and international corporations; we aim to strengthen our litigation team by recruiting experience litigation lawyers. Our co-operation within personal law firms in handling international litigation is testament to our strength in the litigation field and has significantly improved our market position. “Andrew Smiths Partners professional group is made up of a team of professionals with characteristics such as initiative, creativity, applied intelligence, technical knowledge and willingness to work. We believe that our expertise in this area and the positive results we achieve for the clients gives us an advantage in the international litigation field. This is demonstrated by the corporations we have established with international law firms - and large international incorporate clients - as well as high net worth individuals.” The firm also provides legal services in the specialist field of corporate finance mergers and acquisitions, listing incorporate compliance including drafting the prospectus required for IPO exercise, advising and handling the legal documentation work, preparing the full information statements subscription agreement as well as placement agreement and other legal documentation. The firm also offers services in relation to advertising and joint ventures and preparation of a joint-venture agreement and shareholder agreements, advising on merger and acquisition transactions and preparing acquisition agreements, as well as advising on investments and venture capital investments, corporate loan and financing matters, and acting as the company secretary and handling secretarial work for private and publicly listed companies. Andrew then underlines the firm’s remarkable level of expertise and what sets them apart in the outstanding work they do. “As a family law firm, Andrew Smiths Partners has access to not only in-house expertise, but also a network of lawyers nationally and internationally whose experience covers the array of family law issues. This network enables the firm to provide advice and assistance to clients with any family law issue, no matter how complex it is. “Our team of lawyers have acquired expertise in working collaboratively across jurisdictions and formulating international defence strategies, as well as covering international investigations and “our product ‘reliability’ is an essential element of any professional relationship and legal security.”