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‘It’s absolutely mammoth – huge teams on both sides, and it was one of my usual suspects that was on the other side,’ says Ayesha Vardag about representing a billionaire husband recently where the wife ‘perpetrated a very grave deceit’. The complications produced ‘a great deal of novel law, novel arguments and the involvement of the Civil Division’.

The woman the media refer to as the ‘diva of divorce’ has expanded her influence since founding her practice in 2005 and is determined to be ‘the absolutely unquestioned leader’. Her strategy? A combination of ‘fearlessness’, ‘aggression’, ‘empathy’ and ‘intuition’. ‘You’ve actually got to care about what you’re doing,’ she says.