THE FIRM
About Corpus Lawyers
A full-service commercial law firm covering the entire arc of Indian commercial legal work — from the boardroom decision and the contract clause to the tribunal forum and the appeal at the Supreme Court of India.
A Full-Service Commercial Practice, Practising from New Delhi
The firm’s principal holds an Advocate-on-Record designation at the Supreme Court of India — the statutory qualification required to file and appear in Supreme Court proceedings. The AOR designation is not decorative. It is a functional qualification that gives clients direct access to the highest court in the country through the same firm that structured their transaction or managed their arbitration.
Corpus Lawyers is structured around a deliberate philosophy: commercial legal work requires equal capability in both transactional and contentious practice. Lawyers who draft contracts understand how they fail. Litigators who understand transactions understand what was actually at stake. This integration — the Boardroom to Courtroom approach — shapes how every matter the firm handles is approached.
What the Firm Does
The firm’s work falls into three broad categories. First, transactional work — drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, structuring joint ventures and acquisitions, advising on regulatory compliance, and preparing documentation for complex commercial arrangements. Second, dispute resolution — representing clients in arbitration proceedings, managing pre-litigation strategy, and conducting proceedings before commercial courts and the Supreme Court. Third, advisory work — acting as an ongoing legal partner for businesses that need structured legal thinking without the overhead of in-house counsel.
Who the Firm Serves
Corpus Lawyers works with businesses at different stages: companies in the growth phase that need transactional support and regulatory guidance; established businesses managing disputes, restructuring obligations, or seeking Supreme Court remedies; and in-house legal teams that work in IBC, arbitration, or Supreme Court matters.
The firm also works with advocates from across India who require an Advocate-on-Record to file and appear in Supreme Court proceedings on behalf of their clients. The firm acts as AOR while briefing counsel continues to conduct the matter — a distinct service line that enables advocates everywhere to access the Supreme Court.
The AOR Advantage
Only an Advocate-on-Record can file, sign, and act on documents in Supreme Court proceedings. When a matter escalates beyond the High Court, the firm follows it — without a change of counsel, without transition costs, and with the full benefit of the transactional or arbitration context already established.
Practice Areas
- IBC and Insolvency
- Arbitration (Domestic and International)
- Real Estate and RERA
- Corporate and Transactions
- Commercial Litigation
- Regulatory and Compliance
Practice Location
148 Lawyers Chambers
Saket Court Complex
New Delhi 110 016
mail@corpuslawyers.in
+91 98115 58972
How We Approach a Brief
Every engagement begins with a structural read of the facts and the governing documents. We test the client-side narrative against the statutory scheme and the counterparty’s likely framing before forming a position. Citations are cross-checked against primary texts and reporter records. The working premise is simple: a position that holds up on paper holds up in argument.
We distinguish between matters that reward pre-reference strategy and matters that reward speed. Insolvency references, arbitration commencements, and commercial suits with Section 12A exposure each require a different sequencing. We sequence the brief to the forum, not the other way around.
Sector Focus
The practice is organised around four complementary spines: insolvency and restructuring under the IBC, arbitration and ADR under the 1996 Act, commercial litigation under the Commercial Courts Act 2015, and real estate and infrastructure disputes under RERA and allied statutes. The four areas are selected because they converge at the transactional fault lines where financial, regulatory, and contractual risks intersect.
Adjacent work in corporate, contract, employment, data protection, and tax advisory follows from these four spines rather than competing with them. The result is a coherent advisory surface rather than a disconnected menu of specialisations.
THE PRINCIPAL
Prashant Kumar Nair
Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India
Founding Principal, Corpus Lawyers
Prashant Kumar Nair is an Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court of India and the founding principal of Corpus Lawyers. His work covers commercial litigation, insolvency and restructuring under the IBC, domestic and international arbitration, real estate and RERA disputes, and corporate transactions — practised with equal depth in both the transactional and the contentious.
He holds a B.A. LLB (Hons) from the University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi; an LLM in Business Laws from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL), Patiala; and is a PhD scholar in arbitration law at RGNUL — with research at the intersection of arbitration and insolvency law in India.