Onyx Legal

Commercial Litigation  ·  International Arbitration  ·  Contracting  ·  Advisory  ·  Strategy

Counsel you can trust.
Discretion without compromise.

Engagement by written instruction only.

Est. 2026 · UAE
Practice Private Counsel · Global Reach
Practice — i.

Five disciplines, run as one.

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Commercial Litigation

High-stakes commercial disputes before the courts of leading common law jurisdictions. Strategy, advocacy, and case management for matters where the outcome is consequential and the margin for error is slim.

DIFC Courts ADGM Courts Common Law Forums
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International Arbitration

Conduct of complex arbitral proceedings under the leading institutional rules and ad hoc references. Tribunal selection, jurisdictional strategy, evidence, and enforcement — across commercial, joint-venture, and shareholder disputes.

DIAC arbitrateAD ICC LCIA SIAC UNCITRAL
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Corporate & Commercial Contracting

Negotiation and drafting of sophisticated commercial instruments — construction and hospitality contracts, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, and bespoke transactional documents — with careful attention to governing law, jurisdiction, and risk allocation.

Construction Hospitality JV & SHA M&A
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Corporate & Commercial Advisory

Discreet counsel to founders, boards, and family offices on governance, structuring, transactions, and sensitive corporate matters — the questions that rarely make it into the board pack but quietly determine the outcome.

Pre-Transaction Structuring Regulatory Retainers
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Strategy & Multi-Forum Coordination

The discipline that runs through the four — forum selection, parallel-proceedings planning, cross-jurisdictional case management, and settlement structuring. What runs in three forums is still one dispute.

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Vision — ii.

Onyx Legal exists as a place for those who still look for a professional to run their matters. This is not a business. There is no second standard kept for difficult files, no third for unrewarding ones. If we accept your file, then the only adversary you will have to watch is your opponent — not whether your own lawyers are reading the brief, not whether they are capable, not whether their bills are honest, not whether you can be open, not whether you can dial your lawyer without being billed for every minute.

Aditya Singh Chauhan Founder & Managing Counsel
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The practice is narrow, by choice.

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The lawyer instructed is the lawyer who runs the file.

VI.

The firm does not act for banks. The position is fixed.

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Counsel — iii.

By hand. Throughout.

Every matter is handled directly. The lawyer you instruct is the lawyer who runs your file.

The firm accepts a small number of matters at any one time, and runs each by the same counsel from first instruction to final outcome. No handover. No time spent re-explaining the file.

Our work is selected, not scaled. The standard of service that discipline allows is the only reason the practice exists.

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Insights — iv.

Considered commentary for those who follow the practice.

Periodical Quarterly

Onyx Newsletters

Forthcoming

The inaugural issue is in preparation.

Essays Occasional

Onyx Insights

Forthcoming

The first essay is in editorial.

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Contact — v.

Some matters are best discussed quietly.

Direct info@onyxlegal.ae
Consultations By appointment only
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