Mumbai · India

Crux

Law Partners

The Law, Precisely Applied.

CRUX is an Indian law firm for matters where the law is only part of the question.

We advise businesses, institutions and individuals across transactions, disputes, regulation and public law — bringing together the disciplines a matter requires and the judgment to understand how they connect.

Our role is to see the matter in full — and bring precision to what matters most.

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16Specialist Practices

05Integrated Capability Groups

MumbaiPrincipal Office

The Crux Approach

One matter.
Every dimension that matters.

The most consequential legal matters rarely belong to one practice alone. Transactions, disputes, regulation, property and public law often intersect — and the right advice depends on seeing those connections without losing sight of what is decisive.

CRUX brings the relevant disciplines to the same table, with rigorous preparation and independent judgment.A clear view of the matter as a whole.

Partner-led

We bring disputes, transactions, finance, real estate and specialist advisory capabilities together around the issue that actually determines the outcome.

Clear counsel

Advice should make the decision clearer — not simply make the legal position longer.

Independent judgment

We are prepared to tell a client what the law permits, what it does not, and where the real risks lie.

Complete discretion

Professional restraint, confidentiality and judgment are part of the professional responsibility, not additions to it.

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“Good counsel does not merely answer the question. It identifies the question that actually matters.”

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Practices

Five capability groups.
One standard.

Our sixteen specialist practices sit within five connected capability groups, allowing the right disciplines to work together when a matter crosses traditional boundaries.

01 — CRUX

Disputes

Commercial and civil litigation, arbitration, writs under Articles 226 and 227, constitutional and administrative law, public interest litigation, white-collar and criminal proceedings.

02 — CRUX

Corporate & Commercial

Corporate advisory, M&A, agreements and commercial contracts, governance, employment and labour, regulatory compliance and continuing legal counsel.

03 — CRUX

Finance & Restructuring

Banking, finance, recovery, DRT, restructuring, insolvency and NCLT proceedings.

04 — CRUX

Real Estate & Development

Property transactions and disputes, title and conveyancing, development and redevelopment, SRA matters and related municipal and regulatory issues.

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Specialist Practices

Tax, intellectual property, maritime and shipping, and private-client, family and succession matters requiring focused expertise.

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People

Partner-led.
Institutionally minded.

CRUX is led by Managing Partners across its principal areas of practice, supported by the firm’s wider leadership and legal team. Together, they bring depth of expertise with a shared standard of responsibility for the work. Distinct expertise. Shared responsibility.

Sameer Gazdar

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Leads the firm’s Disputes and Real Estate & Development practices, with a focus on high-stakes civil and commercial disputes, public and regulatory law, property, redevelopment and strategic corporate matters. His approach combines litigation discipline with commercial and entrepreneurial perspective.

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Salim Baig

Co-Founder & Senior Litigation Analyst

Brings extensive practical exposure to complex litigation, with particular strength in case analysis, procedural strategy and substantial factual and documentary records. At CRUX, he works alongside the firm’s advocates on research, chronology development, document analysis and litigation strategy.

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Rohan Aher

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Leads the firm’s Corporate & Commercial and Finance & Restructuring practices, advising on transactions, banking and recovery, employment, taxation, regulatory matters and commercial disputes. His perspective is informed by prior in-house experience and his appointment to HSNC University’s Board of Studies in Law.

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Prathamesh Shinde

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Leads the firm’s Specialist Practices, with a focus on private-client, succession, family and intellectual-property matters. His work emphasises documentary precision, careful risk analysis and practical resolution.

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We do not believe clients need more legal language. They need better legal thinking.

Our approach

Our Commitment

Present when it matters.
Accountable throughout.

From the first strategic decision to the point of resolution, responsibility for the matter remains clear.

Representative Experience

Experience defined by the issue,
not the headline.

Selected examples of the kinds of mandates on which CRUX advises. Client identities and matter details are described with appropriate restraint and confidentiality.

Commercial Disputes

Contentious matters where legal position and commercial consequence converge.

Advising businesses and private clients on civil and commercial disputes, interim relief, contractual claims, governance issues and proceedings requiring close factual and documentary analysis.

Real Estate & Development

Property, redevelopment and regulatory mandates with multiple moving parts.

Advising on title, development and redevelopment, municipal and statutory issues, SRA-related matters, property documentation and disputes affecting possession, use and development rights.

Corporate & Commercial

Legal architecture for businesses at points of formation, growth and change.

Advising founder-led and operating businesses on structuring, commercial contracts, transactions, governance, employment, regulatory compliance, brand protection and continuing legal risk.

Public & Regulatory Law

Strategic advice where private rights meet public decision-making.

Acting and advising in matters involving municipal bodies, statutory authorities, administrative action, writ jurisdiction and regulatory frameworks, with emphasis on process, record and remedy.

Representative experience is presented in general terms and does not disclose confidential client information or imply any guarantee of outcome.

“The value of good counsel is measured not only in the result, but in the clarity it brings to the decision.”

The Crux Standard

CRUX Insights

Intelligence that moves
with the law.

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Rohan Aher, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, has been appointed in the alumni category to the University's Board of Studies in Law.

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Contact

Discuss a matter.
Start with the facts.

For firm information, correspondence and general enquiries, contact our Principal Office in Mumbai.

Submission of an enquiry does not by itself create an advocate-client relationship. Please do not send confidential information until an engagement has been confirmed.

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