He is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Zurich, Faculty of Law. He has served as Assistant to Professor Ruth Arnet, incumbent of the Chair for Property Law at the University of Zurich, and worked at one of the largest corporate law firms of Switzerland. Payám Ghaemmaghami is also a civil law notary of the Canton of St. Gallen empowered to execute notarial services (e.g. in company formations, transactions, dissolutions, mergers, in family and estate law, corporate and foundations law, etc.) in all national and international contexts which are valid throughout Switzerland.