Mr. Arittha Wikramanayake was admitted to the Bar in Sri Lanka in 1980 having completed his professional education at the Sri Lanka Law College. Mr. Wikramanayake thereafter joined the Attorney General’s Department of Sri Lanka as a State Counsel in 1981. In 1993 he left the Attorney General’s Department to take up an appointment as the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka. He held this position as Chief Executive Officer of the SEC until December 1997 when he resigned from public service to establish NITHYA PARTNERS. As the Director General of the SEC, Mr. Wikramanayake also held positions as a member of the Public Enterprises Reform Commission of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Board.
Apart from his professional qualifications, Mr. Wikramanayake has also obtained Masters degrees in Law from the Schools of Law, at the Vrije Universitiet, Brussels, Belgium (1985) and the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. USA (1987). In 1991 he obtained a degree in Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, MA, USA.

Mr. Wikramanayake presently handles Corporate Law, Securities Law and Trade Law aspects of the Firm. He has been involved in many of the high profile mergers and acquisitions that have taken place in the market in Sri Lanka in recent times.

Mr. Wikramanayake presently serves on several committees dealing with corporate and securities law. These include committees for formulating Codes on Corporate Governance established by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka and committees on corporate law appointed by the Government of Sri Lanka. Mr. Wikramanayake also serves on the National Review Committee, which has been appointed by the Ministry of Finance to review performance of State owned enterprises.