A practice built on restraint.
Chandravanshi Legal was founded on a refusal to volume-chase. We measure success in mandates we are proud to sign — not the count of them.
We are the lawyer founders call first — and the counsel boards trust when stakes are quiet but consequential.
Our practice spans the lifecycle of a venture: from the first founders' agreement, through term-sheet negotiation and Series C, into the governance discipline that institutional capital expects. We work with companies whose lawyers are part of the decision room — not a reaction to it.
“The quality of counsel is measured in what you do not have to litigate later.”
Four disciplines we hold without exception.
Senior attention, end-to-end
Every matter is led by a partner from first call to closing memo. No junior hand-off, no anonymous associate drafting under your name.
Refusal as discipline
We decline mandates we cannot move with conviction. Our roster is finite by design — and our calendar reflects it.
Paperwork as architecture
Documents are infrastructure. A contract should still hold up when the lawyer who drafted it is no longer in the room.
Commercial fluency
We speak the language of operators. Our counsel is shaped by how the business actually runs, not how it looks on an org chart.
Adv. R. Chandravanshi
Founding counsel with over a decade of practice across corporate, M&A, and venture financing — formerly with two of India's top tier-1 firms before founding Chandravanshi Legal to build a boutique practice around senior attention.
Enrolled with the Bar Council of India. Member of the Society of Indian Law Firms. Recognised in Legal500 Asia-Pacific for venture work.