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Contract & Commercial Disputes
Breach, supply, distribution and services disputes for companies that need the commercial reality proven, not merely alleged.
Commercial Litigation · New Delhi
Trial lawyers who prepare to win, then settle from strength.
Bishop & Crane is a disputes chambers built for the matters that cannot be lost — contract and shareholder fights, arbitration, and the enforcement that follows. We build every case for the courtroom, so that the settlement, when it comes, is on your terms.
18 yrs
At the New Delhi bar
HC & SC
Rights of audience
Arb.
Domestic & cross-border
No fee
First consultation
The Firm
A dispute is won long before the hearing. Our work is the discipline of preparing so thoroughly that the other side settles — because they have already seen how the trial ends.
Bishop & Crane was founded on a plain conviction: commercial disputes are won by the side that controls the facts. We do not treat litigation as a formality to be endured or a lever to be waved. We treat it as advocacy — a theory of the case chosen early, evidence marshalled without gaps, and a courtroom position credible enough that settlement becomes the rational choice for the party across the table.
Our clients are companies, promoters, lenders and boards who cannot afford a poorly-run fight. For them we act as trial counsel, arbitration counsel and enforcement counsel — from the first notice to the satisfied decree.
Delhi HC
Commercial & company benches
SIAC · ICC
Institutional arbitration
NCLT
Oppression & insolvency
Enforcement
Attachment & execution
Aditya Bishop & Rukmini CraneFounding partners
How We Try Cases
A file that reads like a verdict, before anyone reads it as one.
Every matter runs through the same five disciplines. It is unglamorous, and it is why our settlements land where they do.
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Theory of the case
Before a single notice goes out, we decide what a judge should conclude and why. That theory dictates the pleadings, the witnesses and the documents we chase — nothing is filed to fill space.
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Evidence & the record
We build the documentary record with the discipline of people who expect to be cross-examined on it. Discovery, admissions and interrogatories are used to close gaps early, not to generate paper.
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Interim positioning
Injunctions, attachment before judgment and interim relief set the leverage of the whole dispute. We move for them early and precisely, so the other side negotiates from a defensive footing.
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Trial & advocacy
We are trial lawyers first. Examination, argument and appellate strategy are prepared as if every matter will be fought to judgment — because the ones that settle only settle when they credibly could be.
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Settlement or enforcement
From a position of strength we resolve on the client's terms — or, where an award or decree is won, we pursue execution, attachment and recovery until the judgment is actually satisfied.
Resolution & recovery
Practice
What we litigate
A focused commercial-disputes practice. We do not do everything; we do the fights that turn on evidence, valuation and leverage.
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Shareholder & Partnership Disputes
Oppression and mismanagement petitions, deadlock, exit and buy-out fights before the NCLT and the courts.
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Arbitration — Domestic & International
Institutional and ad-hoc arbitration counsel, from constitution of the tribunal to challenge and enforcement of the award.
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Injunctions & Interim Relief
Urgent injunctions, attachment before judgment and interim protection where the timing of relief decides the case.
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Debt Recovery & Enforcement
Summary suits, decree execution, attachment and recovery for lenders and creditors pursuing real satisfaction.
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Insolvency & NCLT Litigation
Financial and operational creditor proceedings, resolution disputes and appeals under the insolvency framework.
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Fraud & White-Collar Defence
Civil fraud, oppression-adjacent misconduct and the interface between commercial disputes and economic-offence proceedings.
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Real Estate & Construction Disputes
Development, EPC and contractual claims where delay, valuation and performance are genuinely in contest.
Notable Matters
Selected work
A representative sample, anonymised out of respect for client confidentiality. Sectors and forums are indicated; identifying details are not.
Manufacturing · Delhi High Court
Cross-border supply & termination dispute
Acted for an Indian manufacturer against an overseas supplier over a wrongful termination and quality claim, running parallel injunction and damages proceedings.
Interim relief secured; settled on client terms
Technology · NCLT
Shareholder oppression & exit
Represented a minority founder in an oppression and mismanagement petition, contesting valuation and governance before the company bench.
Negotiated buy-out at a favourable valuation
Infrastructure · Institutional Arbitration
EPC delay & payment arbitration
Arbitration counsel for a contractor in an institutional reference arising from a large works contract, covering delay analysis and certification.
Award obtained; enforcement completed
Lending · Execution
Post-decree enforcement & attachment
Pursued execution and attachment for a non-bank lender against a defaulting borrower and its guarantors across multiple asset classes.
Assets attached; decree substantially satisfied
Retail · Commercial Court
Distribution & territory injunction
Obtained urgent interim protection restraining a former distributor from parallel trading in breach of an exclusivity covenant.
Injunction granted; matter resolved pre-trial
Financial Services · Civil Fraud
Recovery in a civil-fraud claim
Advised and litigated for a lender uncovering diversion of funds, coordinating civil recovery with a parallel economic-offence complaint.
Freezing relief obtained; recovery ongoing
Past results depend on the facts of each matter and are not a guarantee of any particular outcome.
The best settlement your opponent will ever offer is the one they make after they have watched you prepare for trial.Aditya Bishop · Founding Partner
The Bench of Counsel
Who will argue your case
A small chambers by design. The partner who takes your brief is the advocate who stands up in court.
Aditya Bishop
Founding Partner · Trial & Appellate
Eighteen-plus years at the New Delhi bar, leading commercial and company-law trials with a focus on high-stakes contract and shareholder disputes.
Contract disputes · Shareholder litigation · Appeals
Rukmini Crane
Managing Partner · Arbitration
Fifteen-plus years as arbitration and enforcement counsel across domestic and cross-border references, from tribunal constitution to award enforcement.
Arbitration · Interim relief · Enforcement
Devansh Rao
Counsel · Insolvency & Recovery
Twelve-plus years across NCLT, insolvency and creditor-recovery matters, with a practice built around execution, attachment and realisation.
Insolvency · NCLT · Debt recovery
Meher Anand
Counsel · Regulatory & Fraud
A decade advising on civil fraud, regulatory disputes and the interface between commercial litigation and economic-offence proceedings.
Civil fraud · Regulatory · Interim protection
A dispute worth preparing for
Bring us the matter that cannot be lost.
Tell us what is in dispute. Your first consultation is at no charge, held in confidence, and answered by a partner — not a form letter.