Dissanayake M Sunil is an Attorney at Law, practicing in the field of Intellectual Property.

Consequent to his graduation as a Bachelor of Arts in the University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJP) in 1997 he entered the Sri Lanka Law College in 1998 and admitted to the Bar in June 2002.

Since January, 2001 until August 2003 he had been working in the National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka. Later he started his own career as an independent practitioner in the field of Intellectual Property under the name of Dissanayake M Sunil Intellectual Property.

In 2013 he was conferred with the Post Attorney Diploma in Intellectual Property Law by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies(IALS) which is affiliated to the Sri Lanka Law College, governed by the Council of Legal Education of Sri Lanka.

In October, 2014 he obtained his masters qualifications – Master of Law in International Business with Information Technology and Intellectual Property - from the Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK.

Moreover ha has followed several Distant Education courses on Intellectual Property conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Dissanayake M Sunil who became the first

Registered Agent/Attorney at the National Intellectual Property Office is a Life member of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka(BASL) and the Colombo Law Society.