Kànesh Jayasinghe
Partner, Business Advisory

Kànesh Jayasinghe is a Partner at FCLLP. Having been engaged in the provision of advisory services for nearly 14 years, Kànesh is experienced in transaction and strategy-related consultation such as business valuation and modeling, financial due diligence, Mergers and Acquisitions, and corporate re-structuring.

Kànesh began his career at Ernst and Young and worked in both Sri Lanka and Maldives offices. His experience includes different service lines exposures such as Transaction and Strategy, Valuation and business Modeling, Audit and Assurance, and GRI Sustainability reporting. In addition, he has been a leading coordinator for royal chartered valuers performing property valuations in the Maldives for large-scale infrastructure projects and tourism establishments.

His experience in the commercial sector covers working as a Chief Financial Officer for a public entity with a record of handling an IPO as a first SPV listed investment model in the Maldives Stock Exchange.

Kànesh acts as a director of Dilottra Capital which specializes in PE fund management and monitoring operations services for both domestic and international financial institutions. He serves as official capacity for world largest banks such as State Bank of India and other state-owned banks in Sri Lanka namely Bank of Ceylon and People’s Bank in addition to private sector banks. Further, he serves as an official fund facilitation consultant to Government institutions in both Sri Lanka and the Maldives. He acts as an advisor to the state minister for money, capital market, and enterprise reforms in Sri Lanka through the “Enterprise Development Advisory Council”, and has undertaken the responsibility of coordinating banking and global venture capital pools.

Kànesh holds a B.Sc. Finance (Special) (Hons) degree in financial management and instruments from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka, and MBA from Asia e University, Malaysia. Currently, he is reading for membership in the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (UK).