diff --git a/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/pchandoria-contextualMenu-fix_2018-05-11-00-54.json b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/pchandoria-contextualMenu-fix_2018-05-11-00-54.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..67f876df51fb5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/office-ui-fabric-react/pchandoria-contextualMenu-fix_2018-05-11-00-54.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+      "comment": "Breaking BaseButton Types dependency from ContextualMenu class",
+      "type": "patch"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "office-ui-fabric-react",
+  "email": "pramod.chandoria@hotmail.com"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenu.types.ts b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenu.types.ts
index be148d2028326f..9ef9b679d018d2 100644
--- a/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenu.types.ts
+++ b/packages/office-ui-fabric-react/src/components/ContextualMenu/ContextualMenu.types.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
-import { ContextualMenu } from './ContextualMenu';
 import { DirectionalHint } from '../../common/DirectionalHint';
 import { FocusZoneDirection, IFocusZoneProps } from '../../FocusZone';
 import { IIconProps } from '../Icon/Icon.types';
@@ -29,7 +28,10 @@ export interface IContextualMenu {
 
 }
 
-export interface IContextualMenuProps extends React.Props<ContextualMenu>, IWithResponsiveModeState {
+/**
+ * React.Props is deprecated and we're removing it in 6.0. Usage of 'any' should go away with it.
+ */
+export interface IContextualMenuProps extends React.Props<any>, IWithResponsiveModeState {
   /**
    * Optional callback to access the IContextualMenu interface. Use this instead of ref for accessing
    * the public methods and properties of the component.
@@ -489,7 +491,10 @@ export interface IContextualMenuItem {
   inactive?: boolean;
 }
 
-export interface IContextualMenuSection extends React.Props<ContextualMenu> {
+/**
+ * React.Props is deprecated and we're removing it in 6.0. Usage of 'any' should go away with it.
+ */
+export interface IContextualMenuSection extends React.Props<any> {
 
   /**
    * The items to include inside the section.