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Six disciplines.
One standard.

We do not advertise expertise in everything. The six areas below are the ones we have spent a decade learning to argue well — and we say no, politely, to the rest.

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Criminal Defence

The criminal practice is led by Adv. Aniruddh Rao with over a decade in the trial courts of Mumbai. We act in matters where reputation, liberty and family are simultaneously at stake — and where the difference between a hurried bail and a careful one is everything.

  • Anticipatory & regular bail applications
  • FIR quashing under Section 482 CrPC
  • White-collar & economic offences
  • Cheque bounce (Section 138 NI Act)
  • Trial advocacy & cross-examination
  • Appeals to High Court & Supreme Court
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Civil Litigation

Civil disputes are rarely about the law alone — they are about contracts that quietly broke and relationships that loudly did. We approach them with structure, not theatre, and with an eye on settlement at every stage that allows it.

  • Specific performance & contract enforcement
  • Recovery suits & summary procedures
  • Permanent & temporary injunctions
  • Defamation (civil)
  • Consumer matters
  • Appellate & revision proceedings
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Family & Personal

The most delicate work the firm does. Adv. Ishita Kapoor leads a practice that handles divorce, custody and inheritance matters with the privacy and patience these disputes demand.

  • Mutual & contested divorce
  • Child custody & visitation
  • Maintenance & alimony
  • Domestic violence proceedings
  • Succession & probate
  • Pre-nuptial & cohabitation agreements
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Corporate & Commercial

Most disputes are born at the drafting table. We help founders, family businesses and mid-market companies build contracts and corporate structures that outlast disagreement — and litigate them when they must.

  • Company incorporation (PLC, LLP, OPC)
  • Shareholder & founders' agreements
  • Commercial contracts & due diligence
  • Employment & ESOP documentation
  • Regulatory compliance (FEMA, Companies Act)
  • Commercial arbitration
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Property & Real Estate

From the first title search to a contested partition decades later, real estate work demands a long memory and a clean paper trail. We bring both.

  • Title verification & due diligence
  • Sale & lease deed drafting
  • RERA complaints & defences
  • Partition & inheritance suits
  • Landlord-tenant disputes
  • Society & redevelopment matters
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Constitutional & Writ

The work that brought us into law in the first place. We take a small number of writ petitions every year, often pro bono, where a public authority has acted in a manner the Constitution does not permit.

  • Writ petitions (Article 226 & 32)
  • Fundamental rights enforcement
  • Service & employment writs
  • Public Interest Litigation
  • Tribunal appeals (NCLT, NCLAT)
  • Judicial review of administrative action

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