Senior Associate — Immigration
Michael de Silva
12 years in practice
LL.B, University of London (External)
English, Sinhala
“Immigration files are won on paperwork. We treat every document like evidence.”
Michael manages the firm's immigration desk, running residence-visa, work-permit and citizenship files for individuals and corporate relocation programmes.
He previously served in an in-house mobility team for a multinational, and brings that operational discipline to client files.
Practice areas
Admissions
- Attorney-at-Law, Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (2014)
Client words
From matters in this practice
“Ranil and Tharushi restructured our shareholder agreement ahead of an investment round. Every draft came with a plain-English note explaining what changed and why. The investors' lawyers had almost nothing to push back on.”
“After a refusal elsewhere, Michael rebuilt my citizenship file from scratch. Approved in under five months. The document checklist alone was worth the fee.”