BRUS CHAMBERS, Advocates & Solicitors

Afia SenGupta specialising in cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration; infrastructure and infrastructure disputes; shipping and shipping litigation; recovery and claims in USA. She is heading Brus Chambers LLC a separate entity advising on Indian and American law..

Anamika Ganguly

Anamika Ganguly excels in Shipping and Shipping Litigation including ship arrest from Mumbai; Kolkata and Odisha and in Infrastructure and Projects

Binita Hathi

Binita Hathi is ranked consistently by Legal500 as 'Leading Individual' in India since 2005. Binita Hathi co-heads dispute resolution practice including international and domestic commercial arbitration and litigation. She excels in commercial disputes; shipping and shipping litigation and arbitration including ship arrest anywhere in India ; contracts; infrastructure and infrastructure litigation and arbitration. She has extensive experience in resolving international and domestic client disputes through litigation and arbitration and is also known for negotiating amicable settlement between the parties. She is also known for her contractual skills for projects on shipping; infrastructure and the entire gamut of shipping work. enforcement of arbitral award. She has acted in several institutional international and domestic arbitration under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration, LMAA, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, American Arbitration Association (AAA), ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCC, DIAC, SIAC, CICA, PCA, CIArb, AFA, OHADA (CCJA), ICJ and also under the Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA) and ad hoc cases. Brus Chambers specialisation in arbitration has led to close relationships with arbitration specialists in other countries when the law or procedure of some other jurisdiction becomes pertinent. For all these reasons Brus Chambers has been frequently engaged to handle all aspects of complex international disputes or to serve as lead or co-counsel in international arbitration proceedings, where seat of arbitration is in India or outside India. Binita Hathi and other solicitors at Brus Chambers are well versed in the many different ADR areas. Thus the firm can respond quickly and effectively to client needs in complex and foreign business disputes. Very often, just knowing the array of choices may shorten the time and energy required to bring the matter to an early resolution. She is also co-author of the book International Arbitration, Maritime Practice in India and Ship Arrest in India and Admiralty Laws of India. Binita Hathi has sound knowledge and offers practical solutions to clients and has notable expertise in commercial related litigation and arbitration matters. She is praised for her multi-jurisdictional reach. Successfully completed Contract, a course of study offered by Harvard University . Successfully completed 'The Arbitration of International Disputes', a course of study offered by Leiden University, Netherlands under the guidance of Prof Dr. Eric De Brabandere and Prof. Dr. Giulia Pinzauti. This course covered the entire gamut of the Arbitration of International Disputes, generalities on the international courts and tribunals in The Hague, work of international criminal courts and tribunals, aspects of international arbitration as one of the most common method of international dispute settlement.

Joni Oraon

She specialises in the entire gamut of shipping including ship arrest; Bill of Lading, Charter parties; Bunker Disputes; Recovery of Unpaid Dues; Cargo Claims; Repairs; Claims; Liens; Towage; Salvage; Pilotage Commodity Disputes; Damage Done or Received by any Ship; Freight, Hire, Demurrage, Laytime; Masters and Crew Claims; Necessaries & Supplies; Contractual Disputes; Letter of Credit; FOB, CIF contracts; Lay time; Demurrage; Safe port; Seaworthiness; Notice of readiness; Breach of warranty; "Deemed earned" clause on freight in a voyage charter; "Off-hire" events in a time charter; Delivery without production of the bill of lading; "Through" bill of lading; Cargo claims; Marine insurance claims; Shipbuilding contract; Ship repair; Arrests or Release of Ships; Ownership, Possession, Building, Equipping; Shipping Litigation & Arbitration; Construction of Ships & Rigs; P&I Clubs, Settlement; Marine Insurance; Short Landing; Sale and Purchase of ship; New Building contract with shipbuilders; Ship Mortgage; Ship Finance; Ship Agency; Port and Jetty Terminals; Port Projects and Developments; Ship and Asset Financing, Mortgage; Ship or Rig Building; agreements; Ship Registration and Flagging; Agreements & Contracts; Port Facilities & Regulations; She works on Infrastructure and shipping arbitration and Litigation.

Nidhi Potla

Nidhi Potla is specialising on entire gamut of shipping and commercial arbitration (within all industry sector). She is a very good contract analyst, analysing commercial transactions works alongside the Managing Partner of Brus Chambers, Dr. Shrikant Pareshnath Hathi. She is known for her contractual skills for projects on ports, dredging, shipping, oil, gas, infrastructure, construction and energy. She excels in admiralty ship arrest and other shipping work. International and Domestic Arbitration and Disputes has always been her forte, analysing the dispute, understanding the strong and weak points in the dispute, strategising the dispute. She masters all procedural techniques used in international arbitration in combination with her legal analytical mind on law and the procedure. She is street smart does her best to achieve results for client. Clients rely on her for the depth and breadth of her expertise, her intellectual rigour and her proven track record of finding solutions to implement on the transactions she work on. She advises on entire gamut of law for dispute resolution. She has also successfully completed her law from India and her Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping and Logistics from Narottam Morarjee, Institute of Shipping; presently reading for her LLM in Commercial and International Maritime Law. She deals extensively in Breach of Charterparties, Salvage, Demurrage, International Arbitration, Collision, Unseaworthiness, Marine Insurance matters. She advises all major public and private sector banks, financial institutions, multinationals, domestic banks, multilateral agencies and non-banking financial companies on their domestic and cross-border transactions and provide a focused, pragmatic approach and highly effective. Clients rely on her for the depth and breadth of her expertise, her intellectual rigour and her proven track record of finding solutions to implement on the transactions she work on.

Poonam Sharma

Poonam Sharma is an Advocate specialising on commercial disputes before all courts in Uttrakhand, Mumbai and New Delhi including filings and attending to matters before the Supreme Court of India. She is consistently listed in the 'Next Generation Lawyers' by the Asia Pacific Legal500 . She works alongside with Dr. Shrikant Hathi. She advises on entire gamut of commercial disputes. She also specialises in commercial arbitration and enforcement of foreign and domestic arbitral awards; enforcement of foreign court judgments or decree in India, . She is a very good contract analyst, analysing commercial transactions to avoid disputes in a proposed contract or analysing contractual documents in a proposed or on an on-going dispute, analysing the proposed terms or the existing terms of business contract, the task, performance and payment terms to the proposed or existing contract, assisting client in checking the capabilities and credibility's of a deal, assist in the process of negotiation of deals in a proposed contract, detecting and analysing any problem to the proposed contract or to the existing contract, this assist in better strategy be it transactional work or in a dispute resolution. Successfully completed 'International Law', a course of study offered by Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium under the guidance of Prof. Pierre d Argent

Pritish Das

Pritish Das is a practicing partner specialising in commercial arbitration and litigation all India, shipping, contracts, corporate including enforcement of arbitral awards and decrees. His focus is on shipping and shipping litigation, infrastructure and infrastructure litigation and commercial arbitration. He is very good in analysing contracts, its implications and application of law, detecting and analysing any problem to the proposed contract or to the existing contract, this assist in better strategy be it transactional work or in a dispute resolution. He is also strong in recoveries and claims.

Shrikant Pareshnath Hathi

Dr. Shrikant Hathi is ranked consistently by Legal500 as 'Leading Individual' in India since 2005 and since 2016 listed in Legal500 Hall of Fame in India . Managing and Practicing Partner Dr. Shrikant Hathi excels in shipping law who stands out 'as a strong leader and excellent strategist' and provides 'an outstanding level of service', is a good strategist and has excellent reputation in ship arrest; shipping and shipping litigation and arbitration; infrastructure and infrastructure litigation and arbitration, commercial litigation and arbitration. International and domestic commercial arbitration is also his forte and he is really good at it within all shipping, infrastructure and all types of contractual disputes, he is known for delivering results. He covers all aspects of admiralty, shipping and infrastructure work with a particular focus on admiralty ship arrest and all aspects of maritime disputes and dry shipping transactional work, is renowned for his expertise in wet and dry shipping also known for project work within oil, gas, infrastructure, construction, energy, mining and other projects. He is consistently ranked by Legal500 as leading individual for shipping work (since 2005/2006) now listed in Legal 500 Hall of Fame since 2016. Euromoney Expert Guides have also consistently ranked Dr. Shrikant Hathi as Worlds Leading Lawyer’s for Shipping & Maritime and also for Energy & Natural Resource Lawyers. Also IBLJ ranks Dr. Hathi as best shipping lawyer in India. Dr. Shrikant Hathi is the President of the international network of maritime law firms ‘Shippinglawyers.NET’, He is also the President of the international network of law firms 'Worldlawyers.NET'. He is also the co-author of the book “Maritime Practice in India”, this book can also be located at www.maritimepractice.com and "Ship Arrest in India" located at www.admiraltypractice.com. In Admiralty, Maritime & Shipping matters he advises on ship arrest, all types of shipping disputes representing owners, charterers, suppliers, repairers, cargo owners and their insurers, including P & I clubs and conducts litigation and arbitration., disputes and claims, including casualties, collision, limitation of liability, cargo, unpaid dues, charter party, jurisdiction, conflict of laws, bill of lading, carriage of goods, contract conditions, fire, liens, general average, containers, recoveries, subrogation, casualties, freight forwarders liabilities, multimodal and unimodal, insurance and reinsurance, commercial disputes and advise on financing international trade through letter of credit, bills of exchange and other methods, preparing standard conditions of sale and advise on trade in commodities of all kinds, advising on the terms of contracts, In transactional work he handles all aspects of ship finance, negotiation, bid preparation, sale, purchase and registration. In projects he advises on all mid-sized to mega sized projects within the areas of infrastructure and construction, oil, gas, energy and mining and other projects and dispute resolutions within these areas. Dr. Shrikant Hathi holds dual qualification and is registered to practice law in India and United Kingdom. He is a PhD, Masters in law, Advocate on Record in the Supreme Court of India. He is a practicing solicitor in India and United Kingdom. He is located in Mumbai.

Shruti Rao

Shruti Rao specialises in the entire gamut of shipping and infrastructure. She has a very good knowledge of contract law, admiralty law and its procedures, shipping arbitration and litigation is her forte. She is also very good at infrastructure.

Subrat Kulshrestha

Specialising in Litigation at New Delhi High Court and other courts in India; Arbitration; Projects & Infrastructure; Real Estate & Property; Also specialising in claims recovery for seafarers' personal injury on board the vessel (shipping work). He works alongside with Ms. Poonam Sharma Baloni and Dr. Shrikant Hathi, Advocate on Record of the Supreme Court of India and can be contacted on +91-9769946866

Suhail Farooqui

Suhail Farooqui is a practising partner specialising in aviation, iternational islamic finance, projects, oil, gas, infrastructure, banking, finance and enforcement of foreign judgments. He heads our India Office for aviation and international islamic finance matters. He is specialising in aviation and islamic finance since 1997 and is advising Dana Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Airlines, Egypt Air, Tunis Air, Air Zimbabwe, Kenya Airways and Arik Air. He is very good contract analyst, analysing commercial transactions mainly on aircraft lease, licence of aircrafts, warsaw conventions and aviation related work to avoid disputes in a proposed contract or analysing contractual documents in a proposed or on an on-going dispute, analysing the proposed terms or the existing terms of business contract, the task, performance and payment terms to the proposed or existing contract, assisting client in checking the capabilities and credibility's of a deal, assist in the process of negotiation of deals in a proposed contract, detecting and analysing any problem to the proposed contract or to the existing contract, this assist in better strategy be it transactional work or in a dispute resolution.

Tanuj Agarwal

Tanuj Agarwal heads Brus Chambers Supreme Court litigation practice, he was previously associated with Parekh & Co, Advocate on Record of the Supreme Court of India as Principal Associate. He has completed his law from UPES and his masters from National University of Singapore. Mr. Tanuj Agarwal attends to all civil and criminal matters before the Supreme Court of India. His approach in resolving issues is practical, direct, speedy and effective. He is excellent at Supreme Court dispute resolution work and is ranked as rising star for dispute resolution work by Who's Who Worldlawyers. Ranked by Who's Who Worldlawyers as rising star for dispute resolution work in India. Specialising in dispute resolution work before the Supreme Court of India

Uttam Hathi

Uttam Hathi is a practicing partner and is a specialist in corporate work, is carving out a prominent reputation for cross-border public takeovers and corporate restructurings and is a go-to for Insolvency matters before the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and joint ventures across the entirety of the region. His forte is merger, acquisition, establishing business in India and including contract drafting, structuring, investments, bankings, finance, corporate bankruptcy and real estate work. His core strengths lie in taking-private transactions. Brus Chambers is a leading name for public and private M&A, joint ventures and general corporate affairs with a distinguished level of knowledge in the financial institutions sector, is regularly instructed on M&A transactions throughout the entirety of India. Corporate practice is centered around transactional and legal advisory services concerning day-to-day business, regulatory issues, corporate and governance affairs.

Vidya Bose

She is a lawyer associated with us since the last four years is specialising in Shipping and Infrastructure work.

Poonam Sharma

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