Vardags’ Family solicitors, serving clients in Peterborough and across Cambridgeshire, are set apart by their education, breadth of experience, and level of talent. Vardags has been described as ‘simply the best family law firm for high-net-worth clients’ - our Family solicitors work exclusively for wealthy clients.
The depth of knowledge and unparalleled skill set of Vardags’ Family solicitors is why our clients consistently use our services. Our Founder and President, Ayesha Vardag, has sought to create a Family Law firm with a Magic Circle-grade commitment to excellence. We deliver on our client’s high expectations across a range of Family Law matters. Be it Divorce, Children law, cohabitation, Child finances, pre/post-nuptial agreements, adoption, surrogacy, or assisted reproduction - Vardags can provide the highest level of legal assistance available.
We extend a complimentary initial consultation to qualifying clients, typically those with net assets exceeding £1m or a combined income over £150,000. After our initial discussion, our family solicitors will devote time to comprehensively understanding your unique situation. This will enable them to provide an insight into potential outcomes and an approximation of the potential cost.
In addition to Oxford, our family solicitors also serve neighbouring regions, including Corby, Kings Lynn and Cambridge, ensuring top-tier legal services are accessible to individuals nationwide.
Our elite team of family solicitors at Vardags offers unmatched legal support to our clients in Peterborough, exceeding high expectations. Our family solicitors are recognized for their excellence, handpicked for their intellect, experience, and specialized skills.
Our award-winning family solicitors are experts in:
Peterborough Combined Court Centre is situated within the city’s centre on Crown Bldg, just off Bishop’s Rd. For those arriving by rail, there is a 1-mile journey from Peterborough Station to the court. For those arriving by car, the closest parking can be found next door at the Riverside Car Park. Alternatively, Car Haven Car Park on the other side of Bishop’s Rd is also close by.
Vardags acts for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals going through, or considering, a divorce. Our wealthy clients in Peterborough repeatedly use Vardags due to the quality of our lawyers and their commitment to excellence. Our Divorce team’s expertise covers all aspects of Divorce law including winning large financial settlements, protecting our client’s wealth, managing sensitive cases, conducting financial forensic investigations, and managing pre/post-nuptial agreements.
The list below is only a guide and once contacted by one of our highly trained Client Relations Specialists, the best lawyer for your case will be allocated to you, taking into account your specific circumstances and particular needs.
We offer a free consultation to suitable clients, typically those where the family's net assets are in excess of £1m or the combined income is in excess of £150,000
Vardags is one of the UK’s leading divorce law firms. We specialise in complex, high net worth and international cases. The Legal 500 has said of Vardags: “The team is noted for its sheer intellect”
Vardags is among the leading family law firms in the UK. Our solicitors specialise in complex cases for high net worth individuals, including international child relocation, child abduction, and prenuptial agreements. The Legal 500 has said that "clients feel in totally safe hands" with Vardags' Children & Family lawyers.
Our reputation and privacy team, headed by top media lawyer Alex McCready, works in and out of the public eye on cases involving defamation, privacy and reputation management. We provide expert advice and representation across the full range of reputation and privacy related matters, including crisis management, emergency injunctions and actions against online and new media.
Vardags is a leading UK law firm with expertise in complex disputes relating to a range of corporate law matters. Our team has a wealth of expertise to help clients with their legal needs.
Vardags is a successful and rapidly-growing law firm with an outstanding reputation for winning cases.
Vardags is a top law firm with a trailblazing fertility and surrogacy department. We have had success with some of the most groundbreaking cases of the last decade in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court, with rulings that have changed the law. Vardags remains at the cutting edge of fertility law, pushing for further improvement of the outdated legislation in place in Britain.
Vardags’ civil litigation team is renowned for its nous and its consistent ability to deliver results.
Vardags is a leading UK law firm, offering substantial expertise in company and commercial legal issues. Our company and commercial team is headed by leading experts, with decades of experience in their respective fields
Vardags is a top professional negligence law firm with expertise in complex and substantial claims. You may have seen our name in the press as our clients are often very high profile. Equally we settle many claims entirely out of the public eye. Our team is led by top professional negligence lawyer, Frank Ryan, who has over 30 years of experience across a range of professional negligence cases.
Vardags' wills and trusts team has the specific expertise to cater to the wills and trusts needs of high-net-worth and high-profile individuals. Richard Todd QC, Leading Counsel for Yasmin Prest said of Vardags: “a note to acknowledge your firm’s pivotal role in achieving such an outstanding result in the recent Supreme Court case of Petrodel v Prest”.
Vardags is a leading family law firm with specialist expertise in assisting clients who are experiencing domestic abuse. We appreciate that those in abusive relationships may face difficulties contacting us. We can provide additional discretion, such as arranging alternative meeting places and talking via our WhatsApp service.
“Britain's top divorce lawyer” Ayesha Vardag rose to fame for winning the landmark Supreme Court case of Radmacher v Granatino in 2010, changing the law to make prenuptial agreements legally enforceable in England and Wales.
The founder and President of Vardags, Ayesha specialises in high-net-worth divorce, often with an international or celebrity element. Ayesha, described as “The Diva of Divorce” (TIME Magazine), has a reputation for hard-hitting litigation, commercial savvy, fearlessness, and strategic intellectual vision. This, coupled with a no-nonsense style, and a passion for her cases informed by her own experience of divorce, has won her an ultra-high-net-worth, high-profile client base second to none, made up of clients who expect the very best.
Simon McKirgan is Senior Partner at Vardags and a top international divorce lawyer, with experience in representing individuals or their spouses/partners from commercial, City, banking, investment, media, entertainment and sporting sectors, and entrepreneurs.
Simon specialises in high and ultra-high-net-worth divorce and financial disputes often involving complex jurisdictional issues, and separation and cohabitation disputes and private children proceedings, including international relocation. He has a wealth of experience in handling celebrities and the sensitivities around their cases.
Caroline is Head of Children, advising on all aspects of children law. Caroline is sensitive but tenacious, with a refined and no-nonsense approach inside and outside court. She continues to expand her niche multi-jurisdictional practice which is greatly enhanced by her trilingual capacity (English, French and Spanish).
The "ferociously bright" (Legal 500) Emma Gill specialises in divorce and matrimonial finance.
She is known for her legal insight, dedication and tireless attitude to securing her clientele the very best possible outcome. She regularly acts for the best and brightest entrepreneurs, business men and women, professionals and sports personalities. Her clients come to her for her creative, practical, no nonsense advice.
Lucy is experienced in advising on all matters arising out of divorce and separation, and is experienced in the complex issues that arise with high net worth clients, with a particular focus on private children matters. She has built a reputation as a rising star, both within the firm and from peers in her field. Lucy is also heavily involved in the development of junior lawyers at the firm and is the Deputy Training Principal for the firm nationally.
David is a Senior Partner at Vardags. With over 35 years of experience at the forefront of the profession (Lawyer of the Week in 'The Times’ October 2024), David’s practice comprises a wide ambit of family law issues, namely high net worth and ultra-high net worth divorce and matrimonial finance issues with complex legal, financial and factual disputes and international elements. David also takes a strong interest in non-disclosure and enforcement issues as well as nuptial and cohabitation agreements.