Acquisition International, October 2025 | 19 As a result of the scope of its solutions in this field and its track record of delivering them successfully, Julius & Creasy’s Intellectual Property Division has been recognised with multiple awards, including being featured in the list of Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific Band 1 IPs every year from 2008 to 2024, as well as named both the Sri Lanka Patent Firm of the Year and the Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year 2024 – Sri Lanka. Similarly, as the mastermind behind the team, Anomi has won multiple awards in her own right. These include being featured in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame and recognised as the FullService Lawyer of the Year for both 2024 and 2025. Impressively, Anomi can also boast a place on the list of Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific Band 1 IPs between 2022 and 2024, demonstrating her capability to lead her fellow experts. Ultimately, with Anomi at the helm, Julius & Creasy’s Intellectual Property division remains in good hands and continues to deliver a service that is more than fitting of the wider firm’s legacy. The impact of these accolades is far reaching, not just for the team, but the entire firm. Only by demonstrating excellence across all areas of its practice can Julius & Creasy preserve its status as the most professional law firm in Sri Lanka. More information about Julius & Creasy’s intellectual property services, as well as its other practice areas, can be found by accessing the link below. Contact: Anomi Wanigasekera Company: Julius & Creasy Web Address: https://www.juliusandcreasy.com/ Comprehensive Intellectual Property Services from Sri Lanka’s Leading Law Firm A 146-year history precedes Julius & Creasy, the oldest and most accomplished law firm in Sri Lanka. Since opening its doors in 1879, the firm has built its reputation on a combination of rich tradition and inhouse excellence, with the calibre of lawyers who have passed through its halls over the years setting the standard for decades of going above and beyond in the pursuit of successful outcomes and client satisfaction. This continues to the present day, where there is a focus on providing innovative solutions. Julius & Creasy’s well-established legacy has secured the firm a diverse, sophisticated, and high-profile client base, with it representing everything from financial institutions and multinational companies through to public companies and individual private clients. These clients are not only based in the firm’s home of Sri Lanka, but all over the world, with a string of major cross-border assignments over the past few years having expanded both the reach and prestige of the firm, which continues to pioneer. Nowhere is this pioneering spirit better on display than across Julius & Creasy’s Intellectual Property division, headed up by the title-winning Anomi Wanigasekera. Explaining the duties of her team in more detail, Anomi told us: “The Intellectual Property division of the firm undertakes a full range of enforcement, management, and transactional matters, including advising foreign and local clients on the registration, clearance, protection, and exploitation of their intellectual property (IP) rights.” Going one step further, this area of the firm offers its expert legal guidance across everything from patents/trademarks through to copyright, industrial designs, domain names, and sundry fields across numerous industries. For example, it has assisted clients across biotechnology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, computers, software, and entertainment. As with the rest of the firm, these clients consist of many leading organisations, including Fortune 500 companies and several of Sri Lanka’s most renowned conglomerates. “We are regularly instructed by some of the leading Trademark Agents in the UK, USA, EC, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and India.” These lawyers represent their clients before the National Intellectual Property Office (NIPO) and cover everything from application and registration to ex parte, opposition inquiries, assignment/licence recording, and registration renewal for the likes of patents/trademarks or industrial designs. As well as this, Anomi and her team will also execute audits, exercises pertaining to due diligence, and file trademark applications with customs. Finally, her team will attend to all IP enforcement matters for clients. Few civil law firms are able to match the illustrious heritage of Julius & Creasy, which has been operating according to the highest professional principles for just shy of 150 years. The unmatched experience and deep expertise the firm has translates to a wide range of specialist fields, including intellectual property. Anomi Wanigasekera, the head of this division, has been recognised as the Leading Intellectual Property Enforcement Lawyer of the Year 2025 – Sri Lanka. On the back of this, we spoke with her to find out more about the work that she and the team carry out. Julius & Creasy
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