Qualifications & Training

Ayesha Vardag graduated with honours in law from Cambridge University in 1990 and as a scholar in European law from the Université Libre, Brussels in 1991, then worked on prestigious research projects in international law at the International Court of Justice in the Hague and at the UN in Vienna. She speaks all the Latin languages, plus Russian and some rather rusty Urdu. She qualified and worked initially as a finance solicitor at the global City law firm Linklaters (London, Moscow) and then at the New York law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges in London. She also trained as an advocate at the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar.

Ayesha moved across to Matrimonial and Family law in 1999, working first on her own matters as a client at the leading Mayfair matrimonial and family law firm Sears Tooth, then being taken on as one of two associates to the senior partner, Raymond Tooth, before leaving to lecture in family law at the 5 star law school at Queen Mary’s, London, and to establish Ayesha Vardag Solicitors as an independent practice. She works primarily with high net worth/high achieving clients, drawing on her City-based, deal oriented negotiating skills against a background of hard-hitting litigation experience and a strategic intellectual grasp of the law.