"The advocate's duty is to use all the weapons that his wit and the law can supply. He must not be afraid to strike a blow that hurts, provided it is a fair one; for the battle of the law is not won by soft words or gentle gestures." — Lord Birkett

Vrutant — from the Sanskrit, one bound by a vow — is a boutique chambers in Mumbai. We accept a narrow docket of mandates from founders, funds and family offices. Work that turns on one document, one paragraph, one well-chosen comma.

Established
2025
Partners
Five
Mandates / yr
150+

Practice Area

Four desks, narrowly drawn.
Desk 01

Commercial Disputes

Contract, shareholder and post-acquisition disputes argued before commercial courts and arbitral tribunals. The work is largely written; the wins, more often than not, are in the briefs.

Desk 02

Corporate & M&A

Buy-side and sell-side counsel on growth-stage transactions, secondaries and structured exits. We close the deals our clients need closed; we walk away from the ones they don't.

Desk 03

White-Collar Defence

Quiet, surgical defence work on regulatory and economic offence matters across SEBI, ED and EOW. Discretion is part of the brief, not a feature of it.

Desk 04

Family Office

Succession, trust architecture and generational governance for principals and their advisors. Long horizons, careful instruments, fewer surprises.

The Partners

Five partners, called severally and together.
Dev Sunil Naidu01

Dev.

Founding Partner
Bar · MAH
Aman Surendra Singh02

Aman.

Partner — Disputes
Bar · MAH
Ankita Virendra Yadav03

Ankita.

Partner — Corporate
Bar · MAH
Anshuman Ashok Mishra04

Anshuman.

Partner — White-Collar
Bar · MAH
Pranav Anil Pawar05

Pranav.

Partner — Family Office
Bar · MAH/6743/2025
Wherever there is supreme strategic vision paired with absolute, unyielding execution — there will exist fortune, victory, prosperity, and unbreakable justice. — Bhagavad Gita, 18:78

What Clients Say

In their words, unedited.

Our Work So Far

Short essays from the bench, occasionally.
10 May 2026· Disputes

The earn-out clause that wasn't.

What founders miss when they read a term sheet at midnight, and what arbitrators read three years later.

Read in Our Work
02 May 2026· Arbitration

SIAC, seated abroad, fought from Bombay.

How a Mumbai bench prepares for a Singapore-seated arbitration without leaving its desk.

Read in Our Work
21 Apr 2026· White-Collar

The quiet half of SEBI consent.

The settlement order is the public bit. Everything before it is the work.

Read in Our Work

What We Do

Four desks. Carefully delimited work.
Desk 01

Commercial Disputes

Contract, shareholder and post-acquisition disputes argued before commercial courts and arbitral tribunals. The work is largely written; the wins, more often than not, are in the briefs.

Desk 02

Corporate & M&A

Buy-side and sell-side counsel on growth-stage transactions, secondaries and structured exits. We close the deals our clients need closed; we walk away from the ones they don't.

Desk 03

White-Collar Defence

Quiet, surgical defence work on regulatory and economic offence matters across SEBI, ED and EOW. Discretion is part of the brief, not a feature of it.

Desk 04

Family Office

Succession, trust architecture and generational governance for principals and their advisors. Long horizons, careful instruments, fewer surprises.

The work that matters is rarely the work that makes the news. — From the Counsel's Note

The Founding Partner

Of counsel, in chambers since 2025.
Dev Sunil Naidu, Founding Partner 01 — Dev

Dev.

Sr. Advocate · Founding Partner · Bar Council MAH

Dev built Vrutant in 2025 around a single conviction — that a small docket, taken seriously, outperforms a large one taken in volume. His work spans commercial disputes, distressed-asset recoveries, and the quieter side of regulatory defence. Matters where outcomes turn on patience as much as on argument; where the brief is read three times before it is filed once.

Education
TRCL · LL.B.
Languages
English · Hindi · Marathi
Member
BCMG · LCIA · SIAC
Practice
Since 2025
The lever moves the world, but only if you know where to set it down. — From the Counsel's Note

The Partners

Four from the bench, called severally and together.
Aman Surendra Singh02

Aman.

Partner — Disputes

Lead counsel on commercial and shareholder disputes before the Bombay High Court and SIAC tribunals.

Bar · MAH
Ankita Virendra Yadav03

Ankita.

Partner — Corporate

Buy-side and sell-side counsel on growth-stage transactions, secondaries and structured exits.

Bar · MAH
Anshuman Ashok Mishra04

Anshuman.

Partner — White-Collar

Defence work on regulatory and economic offence matters across SEBI, ED and EOW.

Bar · MAH
Pranav Anil Pawar05

Pranav.

Partner — Family Office

Succession architecture, trust governance, and generational planning for principals.

Bar · MAH/6743/2025

Our Work So Far.

Short essays from the bench. Some appear here first; others are mirrored from LinkedIn. None of it is advice — for that, write to chambers.

Featured10 May 2026Disputes

The earn-out clause that wasn't.

What founders miss when they read a term sheet at midnight, and what arbitrators read three years later. A short note on the most-litigated paragraph in any recent acquisition agreement.

Read on LinkedIn
02 May 2026Arbitration

SIAC, seated abroad, fought from Bombay.

How a Mumbai bench prepares for a Singapore-seated arbitration without leaving its desk.

Read on LinkedIn
21 Apr 2026White-Collar

The quiet half of SEBI consent.

The settlement order is the public bit. Everything before it is the work.

Read on LinkedIn
14 Apr 2026Family

Three generations on.

Why the second-generation trust deed almost never reads the way the first one was meant to.

Read on LinkedIn
02 Apr 2026Drafting

Reading a term sheet like a litigator.

What we look for in the boilerplate. Five clauses that decide the disputes you haven't had yet.

Read on LinkedIn
28 Mar 2026Arbitration

Section 9 and the interim brief.

The Arbitration Act gives you one shot at it; here's how we plan that shot before we file.

Read on LinkedIn
15 Mar 2026White-Collar

The cost of speed.

What a 90-day investigation looks like from the inside, and why most of the work is in week one.

Read on LinkedIn

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