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Menik McCauley

Telephone: 001**********

Email Address: *********@*****.***

WORK EXPERIENCE

Associate Director – Legal and Commercial Departments May 2015 – February 2025 China Harbour Engineering Company Limited – Colombo, Sri Lanka Provide Legal advice on legal issues related to construction projects, dispute analysis/ review, Insurance of the

• projects, equipment and employees, claims, variations of work, labour inquiries/cases/ disputes and client and vendor contracts.

Liaise with stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance and efficiency of the services provided by the company.

• Originate of contract correspondence and contract management. Draft and review legal documents related to the projects.

• Prepare damage claims for construction contracts.

• Certify and attest deeds, agreements and related instruments.

• Handle Company secretarial services and act as the company secretary of the company.

• Represent the company during the prolongation of proceedings before the courts, mediation boards and arbitration panels.

• Handle and resolve buy-sell disputes and property infringements.

• Initiating company policies review company policies periodically and maintain company policy related documents and the correspondence.

• Represent the company before crime detection units including Sri Lanka Police Department and all other units under the Police Department including Criminal Investigation Department and the Financial Crimes Investigation Division.

• Represent the company before Financial Intelligence Unit of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

• Represent the company before all government departments, private bodies and the non-government organizations.

• Maintain company documents, annual filings of the company in various Departments of the Government including The Department of Registrar of companies.

• Liaise with all site offices under the company in Sri Lanka and within the Asia region to ensure regulatory compliance of the projects undertaken by the company, to mitigate the risks associate with the projects and to ensure efficient delivery of the services.

• Analyze the risks and the reports on environmental impact of the projects and related claims, concerns of the public and other stakeholders to mitigate risks.

• Certification of documents in order to use in the chain of offices of the company in Asia Region. Maintain company seals and the books.

• Conducting trainings for the foreign staff

Deputy Manager – Legal June 2012 – March 2015

WNS Global Services (Pvt) Ltd – Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Managing a team of 20 members who deliver company secretarial services to Europe, Asia, America and Commonwealth regions for companies that are incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.

• Planning and implementing operations activities across all regions on regular basis.

• Writing Detail Procedure Manuals on all operational processes and make constant updates in the manuals to meet regulatory updates/amendments in the BVI.

• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to develop, improve processes and to efficiency.

• Liaising with in house lawyers, external law firms in the British Virgin Islands, Regional managers of all four regions to provide fully BVI compliant company secretarial services.

• Conducting training sessions for new recruits relating to all company secretarial services which are in the range of Name check/ Name reservation and dissolution of companies in the British Virgin Islands.

• Preparing weekly reports relating to International incorporations.

• Drafting checklists for each service type for Quality Checking of legal documents across regions.

• Evaluating clients’ review of services provided by the team on regular basis in order to maximize quality checking aspects of each process to provide satisfactory services for all clients’ exigencies. Professional Assistant July 2010 – May 2012

John Wilson Partners – Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Drafting legal documents including plaints, Petitions, Affidavits, Agreements, Deeds, Due Diligence Reports.

• Appearing in the Courts for both civil and criminal cases.

• Conducting consultations with foreign, local clients on various areas of Sri Lankan laws.

• Providing legal opinions to local and foreign clients’ institutions various areas of Sri Lankan laws.

• Incorporating companies including BOI, Foreign and Overseas companies in Sri Lanka.

• Liaising with the Department of Immigration and Emigration to obtain Residence visas for foreign employees to work in Sri Lankan companies.

• Liaising with the Department of Exchange Control to obtain approvals to transfer funds to non-residents. English Teacher February 2008 – June 2010

Lideke Wery Educational Institute – Induruwa, Sri Lanka

• Conducting General English classes for adults according to the Cambridge Cutting Edge Curricula.

• Guiding students for City and Guilds Access, Achiever, Communicator ESOL, SESOL examinations.

• Conducting Intermediate Level Spoken English classes for adults.

• Implementing inspiring classroom environment with new teaching methods.

• Involving in promotional activities as a team member of the staff.

• Research about challenging institutions for providing the top quality high standard education.

• Organizing team building activities and community projects to build up the relationship with the community.

• Conducting teacher training workshops for part time newly appointed teachers to strengthen their abilities. EDUCATION

Master of Law 2017

General Sir John Kotelawala Defense University – Rathmalana, Sri Lanka Bachelor of Law 2010

Open University of Sri Lanka – Colombo, Sri Lanka

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Attorney-at-Law

Notary Public

Commissioner for Oaths

Registered Agent at NIPO

Company Secretary

Sworn Translator -

English -Sinhala

Admitted to the Bar Association of Sri Lanka in December 2011 Appointed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to practice as a Notary Public in the judicial division of Colombo in Sinhalese and English language in2012.

Appointed by the Ministry of Justice as a Commissioner for Oaths in 2012

Appointed by the Director General of the National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka to act as an Agent under section 175 of the National Intellectual Property Act Sri Lanka in 2016 Appointed by the Department of Registrar of Companies to act as a Company Secretary in 2012

Appointed by Ministry of Justice and Prison Reforms SKILLS

Language skills – Good command in English

Computer skills – Computer Application Assistant – NAITA (NVQ Level3) Personal skills

• Setting aims, targets and lead by example Strong Client focus attitude

• Tactful and articulate Strong analytical skills

• Self-motivated, Positive, energetic, focused and eager to further grow and develop existing legal skills Loyal, very hard working and dependable team player

• Able to identify critical issues

• Ability to design and implement sophisticated plans with a proven track record explicitly supporting business needs References Available Upon Request

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