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 WorkVrutant — 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.
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.
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.
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.
Succession, trust architecture and generational governance for principals and their advisors. Long horizons, careful instruments, fewer surprises.
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05Wherever there is supreme strategic vision paired with absolute, unyielding execution — there will exist fortune, victory, prosperity, and unbreakable justice. — Bhagavad Gita, 18:78
What founders miss when they read a term sheet at midnight, and what arbitrators read three years later.
Read in Our WorkHow a Mumbai bench prepares for a Singapore-seated arbitration without leaving its desk.
Read in Our WorkThe settlement order is the public bit. Everything before it is the work.
Read in Our WorkContract, 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.
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.
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.
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
01 — Dev 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.
The lever moves the world, but only if you know where to set it down. — From the Counsel's Note
02Lead counsel on commercial and shareholder disputes before the Bombay High Court and SIAC tribunals.
03Buy-side and sell-side counsel on growth-stage transactions, secondaries and structured exits.
04Defence work on regulatory and economic offence matters across SEBI, ED and EOW.
05Succession architecture, trust governance, and generational planning for principals.
Short essays from the bench. Some appear here first; others are mirrored from LinkedIn. None of it is advice — for that, write to chambers.
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 LinkedInHow a Mumbai bench prepares for a Singapore-seated arbitration without leaving its desk.
Read on LinkedInThe settlement order is the public bit. Everything before it is the work.
Read on LinkedInWhy the second-generation trust deed almost never reads the way the first one was meant to.
Read on LinkedInWhat we look for in the boilerplate. Five clauses that decide the disputes you haven't had yet.
Read on LinkedInThe Arbitration Act gives you one shot at it; here's how we plan that shot before we file.
Read on LinkedInWhat a 90-day investigation looks like from the inside, and why most of the work is in week one.
Read on LinkedInTell us — briefly — what the matter is about. A partner replies within one working day, in writing, in plain English.