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Ajithaa Edirimane has over 30 years of experience in the dual roles of corporate lawyer cum company secretary of commercial establishments dealing in merchant banking, shipping and manufacturing to property development having headed the Legal Departments of the companies in which she served in Sri Lanka. Prior to commencing her own legal practice in 2009, she served in the Legal Department of Hapag Lloyd in Hamburg, Germany.

She was a Visiting Lecturer at the Sri Lanka Law College on conveyancing and drafting of commercial contracts and at the Open University on Mercantile Law.  She was also a Visiting Lecturer and Examiner for Law of Condominium Properties for the “Post Attorney Diploma in Conveyancing and Real Property Rights” conducted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies affiliated to the Sri Lanka Law College from 2019 – 2020.

A book authored by her titled “Understanding the Concepts of Condominiums” is a comprehensive literature on the application of the law relating to condominium properties in Sri Lanka and it is referred by both students and practitioners. She also participates in workshops and seminars as a resource person on this subject. She has participated and presented papers relating to condominium property law organized by the Centre for Banking Studies of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, State Mortgage and Investment Bank, Institute of Town Planners, Institute of Valuers, Association of Corporate Lawyers, Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Seylan Bank, National Savings Bank, etc.,

Her advice is sought by Developers of condominium properties, Management Corporations and owners of condominiums on matters ranging from registering the condominium property to management issues of common elements. These include Trillium Residencies, Crescat Residencies, Monarch at Crescat City, Emperor at Crescat City, Empire, Fairfield Residencies, Ascon Residencies, Havelock City condominiums, Kings Court MC, Liberty Plaza MC, Unity Plaza MC, Premier Pacific MC, Realty Plaza MC, Hedges Court Residencies, City Edge Residencies and several others. She undertook the registration of the 36 storey World Trade Center, Colombo as a condominium property, which was the first registration of a major commercial condominium property in Sri Lanka.

She is a life member of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) and was a Delegate to the Bar Council from 1997 – 2005. She served as a member of the Editorial Committee of the BASL Law Journal and was a Co-Editor of the BASL Law Journal and the Convenor of the BASL Publications Committee from 2000 – 2004. She was also the Convenor of the BASL National Law Conference in 2000. She is a former Secretary and ex-Vice President of the Corporate Lawyers Association of Sri Lanka and a founder member, former Secretary and member of the Ex-co of the Alumni Association of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) based in Rome, Italy and functioned as an Intellectual Property (IP) Resource Person of IDLO in Sri Lanka. She served as a member of the Committee on Title Registration of property appointed by the Minister of Justice & Law Reforms and a member of the sub-committee of the Law Commission appointed in 2013 to revise the condominium property law of Sri Lanka.

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