Anaïs R. Mehta
Founding Partner
Civil litigation, with a focus on contracts and commercial disputes. Bombay High Court bar since 2014.
Chambers
Bombay & Delhi
Est. 2014
MMXXVI
Counsel for matters of consequence.
A boutique civil-disputes practice for boards, founders, and counsel facing matters of strategic gravity. Sober advice. Steady representation. No theatrics.
Practice
Six rooms, one steady hand.
Civil disputes have a habit of branching. We argue them where they live — in commercial chambers, in shareholder negotiations, in the long tail of an awkward contract — and we keep the strategy whole as the matter moves between rooms.
01 / Commercial
Commercial litigation
Bet-the-company disputes between firms, partners, and joint-venture parties. We act for the side with the stronger paper trail, and we keep the trail visible to the bench.
02 / Contracts
Contract disputes
Breach claims, MSA disputes, vendor and supplier conflicts — and the quieter work of recovering position before the matter reaches court.
03 / Property
Property & real estate
Title disputes, lease disagreements, society and developer matters across Mumbai and the National Capital Region. Including specific performance suits.
04 / Employment
Employment & workplace
Wrongful termination, restrictive covenants, founder departures, and IP-leaving-with-the-employee disputes. We act on either side of the table.
05 / Consumer
Consumer protection
Class and individual actions before consumer fora, RERA, and the appellate tribunal. Often deflected with a well-drafted notice; occasionally not.
06 / Arbitration
Arbitration & mediation
Domestic and cross-border arbitration under SIAC, LCIA, and the Arbitration & Conciliation Act. We mediate where it serves the client, and we close where it serves better.
Ledger
Recent matters, publicly noted.
Selected public-record matters from the chambers' caseload, sanitised of identifying detail. The full ledger is shared on retainer.
No. 01
Shareholder deadlock at a mid-market pharma manufacturer
2 May 2026
No. 02
Co-operative society vs. developer — Sea View redevelopment, Mumbai
25 April 2026
No. 03
Founder departure at a Series-B SaaS firm — IP and non-compete
13 April 2026
No. 04
Vendor dispute, mid-market manufacturer — recovered ₹4.2cr in 11 weeks
27 March 2026
No. 05
Restrictive covenant before the appellate tribunal
1 March 2026
Counsel
Steady hands, in the room with you.
Four counsel; one shared standard for client work. The bench is small on purpose — we prefer to know each matter end-to-end.
Dev Chatterjee
Senior Counsel
Property and real-estate disputes, Mumbai and Delhi-NCR. Specific performance, RERA, and society matters.
Saira Banerjee
Counsel · Employment
Wrongful termination, restrictive covenants, and founder-departure matters. Frequent advisor to growth-stage tech firms.
K. Iyer
Counsel · Arbitration
SIAC and LCIA-seated arbitrations. Construction, distribution, and joint-venture disputes.
Testimony
When our shareholder dispute went sideways, Lex & Co. wrote the kind of steady, sober brief that ended it without a single courtroom appearance. They did the work no one wanted to do.
Founder & CEO
Engagement · §05
An initial conversation, before any retainer.
Most matters that reach us do not need litigation — they need a steady second opinion. The first ninety minutes are on the chambers; we'll tell you frankly whether the matter is worth pursuing, whether it's worth escalating, or whether the strongest move is no move at all.
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Privileged
Anything you share is held under attorney-client privilege from the first message — whether or not we end up working together.
02
Plainly written
You leave with a written one-page note: the matter, the options, the costs, the realistic outcomes. No hedging, no Latin.
03
No commitment
If we are the right counsel, we will say so. If another firm fits better, we will name them. Either way, the conversation costs nothing.
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