Mumbai · India

Crux

Law Partners

The Law, Precisely Applied.

A full-service law firm advising across corporate, commercial, contentious and private-client matters. We bring different disciplines to one table — and one standard to every matter: rigorous preparation, independent judgment and clear advice.

Request a Consultation
04Founding Partners
10Core Practice Areas
MumbaiPrincipal Office
The Firm
A broad practice.
A precise point of view.

Crux Law Partners is a full-service law firm based in Mumbai, advising clients across corporate, commercial, contentious and private-client matters. The disciplines vary. The standard does not.

01

Partner-led

The lawyer who takes the brief remains directly engaged in the substance of the matter.

02

Clear counsel

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

03

Independent judgment

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

04

Complete discretion

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

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

Crux Law Partners
The Practice
One firm.
Eight disciplines.

From a corporate transaction to a contested proceeding, the work begins the same way: understand the facts, isolate the crux, and build the legal response around it.

Founding Partners
Different practices.
A shared standard.

Crux was founded by four lawyers with complementary practices and a common view of how serious legal work should be done: closely, candidly and with direct accountability for the matter.

Sameer Gazdar

Sameer Gazdar

Founding Partner

Approaches difficult matters by identifying the issue that carries the greatest consequence and building the strategy around it. His practice spans civil and commercial disputes, corporate litigation and transactions, and white-collar matters.

Salim Baig

Salim Baig

Founding Partner

Brings a focused, record-driven approach to criminal litigation and dispute resolution, with particular attention to post-conviction proceedings and the procedural questions that can determine the course of a matter.

Rohan Aher

Rohan Aher

Founding Partner

Works across employment, taxation, corporate and civil matters with an emphasis on practical consequences. The objective is clear advice that can be translated into a sound decision and a workable course of action.

Prathamesh Shinde

Prathamesh Shinde

Founding Partner

Brings a careful, detail-led perspective to intellectual property and private-client matters, including family litigation, wills and succession. His approach combines precision in law with judgment in its application.

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

Our approach
Client Perspectives
What clients value
about the way we work.

The best measure of counsel is not the language used to describe the work, but the confidence clients place in the people doing it.

“When you are running multiple businesses, you need lawyers who understand the commercial reality — not just the legal text. Crux does both. They are direct, prepared, and they deliver.”

Shees Gazdar

Founder

70s Frogurt Hood, Uba Tuba & Master Franchisee, Baskin Robbins

“Starting a business comes with legal complexity you don't always anticipate. Crux gave us clarity at every step — practical advice, no jargon, and genuine commitment to our outcome.”

Gausiya Ansari

Co-Founder

Waffle Kart

“I have worked with legal teams across multiple countries. What Crux brings is rare — the ability to be both commercially sharp and legally precise. They understand what is actually at stake.”

Sameer Bargir

International Head

Baskin Robbins

The Crux Standard

Serious counsel is measured by the quality of the thinking behind it.

We built Crux around a simple principle: understand the whole problem, identify the issue that truly matters, and advise with clarity. That standard applies whether the matter is a transaction, a dispute or a question of private consequence.

Crux Law Partners

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

Client Perspective
Consultation
Start with the facts.
Find the crux.

Tell us what has happened, what is at stake and what decision now has to be made. A serious matter deserves a serious first conversation.

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.

Consultation Services

Initial Enquiry

Send Enquiry