Advocates & Solicitors, Mumbai
यत्र भिन्नता न बाधा, किन्तु सामर्थ्यं भवति
Where difference is not a limitation but a strength.
Transactional precision meets enforcement foresight — across the full lifecycle of commercial, corporate & personal legal matters.
The Firm
Built on direct and consistent partner involvement.
C&T Advocates is a Mumbai-based boutique law firm founded by Mr. Archit Chaturvedi and Ms. Prateeti Thakar — two advocates shaped by sustained involvement in complex, high-stakes legal matters across contentious, transactional, and advisory domains.
The firm draws on its partners' experience in leading institutional environments, multi-jurisdictional engagements, and sophisticated commercial disputes — real depth, combined with the agility and focused attention that only a boutique practice can offer.
Every matter receives sustained senior attention.
Areas of Practice
Full-spectrum legal services
- Corporate Transactions
- Corporate Governance
- Shareholder Disputes
- Strategic Advisory
- Contract Drafting
- Contract Lifecycle
- Banking & Finance Law
- Insolvency & Recovery
- Cross-Border Contracts
- Regulatory Compliance & Advisory
- Commercial Disputes
- Commercial Arbitration
- Writ Jurisdiction
- Public Law & Constitution
- Admin & Regulatory Law
- Family & Matrimonial
- Real Estate & Dev.
- Estate Administration
- Wills & Succession
- Private Client Advisory
Our Team
Founding Partners
Archit Chaturvedi
Founding Partner · Bombay High Court Advocate
B.B.A. (Hons.), Kingston University, London · L.L.B., Mumbai University
An Advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa, practising before the Bombay High Court. With over eight years of experience across India, Canada, and the UAE, he advises and represents clients in commercial, corporate, and family disputes, as well as contractual, real estate, and shareholder matters — with meticulous attention to drafting and risk allocation, so that legal positions remain robust when tested in negotiation, litigation, or enforcement.
Prateeti Thakar
Founding Partner · Banking, Finance & Real Estate
B.S.L., L.L.B., ILS Law College, Pune
A lawyer with over a decade of experience in banking and finance, commercial disputes, real estate, and general corporate advisory. A strong litigation background followed by years as a senior legal professional at a leading private sector bank gives her in-house expertise alongside enforcement insight — advising banks, NBFCs, foreign portfolio investors, alternative investment funds, high net-worth individuals, and corporates across the full lifecycle of financial and commercial matters.
Selected Matters
Work that has been tested
A selection of matters handled by the partners across current practice and prior engagements.
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Advised a lead bank on a foreign currency term loan facility of up to USD 36 million to an offshore entity for refinancing a luxury hospitality asset — documentation spanning English, Indian and foreign law, completed within an accelerated one-month timeline.
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Played a central role in a multi-jurisdictional debt recovery action for a leading bank against a foreign borrower and its Indian guarantors, with parallel proceedings before the High Court of Justice in England and Wales and insolvency proceedings before the NCLT.
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Represented leading financial institutions in proceedings challenging wrongful attachment actions by enforcement authorities, successfully asserting the statutory priority of secured creditors over mortgaged assets.
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Appeared in a constitutional challenge to executive guidelines governing Look Out Circulars against alleged loan defaulters; the Court held that empowering banks to issue such circulars was ultra vires the applicable framework.
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Appeared in a reported Bombay High Court judgment on minor child custody, where the Court, exercising parens patriae jurisdiction, granted custody to the paternal aunt, prioritising the child’s long-term welfare over parental claims.
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Represented groups of flat purchasers in redevelopment disputes after a housing society terminated its development agreement, securing interim protection against demolition of a near-completed structure pending final adjudication.
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Contributed to policy-level consultations on reforming India’s Debt Recovery Tribunal framework, and provided stakeholder inputs to a Parliamentary Committee on the proposed Securities Markets Code.
Past Representations
Representations by the partners across current practice and prior engagements.
यत्र भिन्नता न बाधा, किन्तु सामर्थ्य भवति,
तत्र समन्वयेन दृढता, स्पष्टता, च सिद्ध्यति।
Where difference is not a limitation but a strength,
there through synergy arise firmness and clarity.