Prabash De Saram

Called to the Bar: 1999
Years with the Firm: Over 17 Years

Academic/Professional Qualifications:

• Magister Juris (First Class) (Masters in Law) (University College –University of Oxford – U.K) (2000-2001). The primary focus of his Masters  thesis was on the study of laws relating to Companies, Contracts and Intellectual Property.
• Awarded the Shell Centenary Scholarship for studies at the University of Oxford – UK (2000).
• Passed finalist CIMA – U.K (May 2000)
• Awarded Angelo M. Patrick prize for best performance by a Sri Lankan in SMM (Strategic Management and Marketing) in the final stage of the    Chartered Institute of Management Accountancy Examination (May 2000).
• Attorney-at- Law, Supreme Court of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (1999)-(First Class in each of the years 1996, 1997 and 1998 ).

Areas of Practice:

Foreign Investment, Banking and Finance, Tax, Corporate and Commercial, Project Finance and Infrastructure Projects, Intellectual Property

Work Experience:

• 2003 – to date: D.L. & F. De Saram (Partner since January 2006)
• 2002 – 2003: Manager, Exports and Imports (Trade Services) Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited/advice on documentary credit and collection transactions and trade finance lending instruments.

D.L. & F. De Saram

D.L. & F. De Saram is one of the oldest law firms in Sri Lanka, founded in 1898 by Richard Francis De Saram, and carried on in partnership by his sons, Douglas and Fred De Saram. This tradition has endured without interruption well into the 20th century when Fred De Saram’s four sons, Colonel F.C. De Saram, F.J. “Coo” De Saram, Robert De Saram and Maurice De Saram, and a nephew, Clifford Trevor De Saram, guided the fortunes of the firm. Interestingly, the tradition is kept alive by the present partners, Michael Sproule and Dijen De Saram, grandsons of Fred De Saram, and Savantha De Saram and Prabash De Saram, his great grandsons. De Saram’s is one of the largest full service law firms in Sri Lanka, which, while taking great pride in its rich heritage is, in these rapidly changing times, not anchored by its traditions.