Legal ownership, practical control and succession must work together. We design, implement and maintain the architecture that keeps your wealth accessible, protected and transferable.
Engagement
Most clients start with a monthly retainer: a lawyer who knows your position, available as questions arise. Where a question needs a defined piece of work, we quote it as a project. Each project is a separate decision, and Architect is also available on its own at a fixed fee.
A lawyer who knows your position, retained month by month.
One named lawyer who knows your holdings, your jurisdictions and your family. Use the time for questions as they arise, for a second opinion on what other advisers propose, or to work through a decision before you make it.
USD 1,600 a month for up to four hours, then USD 650 an hour. No minimum term.
Projects, quoted separately
Understand where you stand. Design where you need to go.
We map how your wealth is held, controlled and set to pass on, test it against the ways structures fail, and deliver the Blueprint: a written design precise enough to build from. It is yours to act on, with us or without us.
Fixed fee, USD 5,500 to 12,500, agreed before work begins. With or without a retainer.
Turn the agreed Blueprint into an operational structure.
Entities formed, instruments drafted, custody set up, assets moved and successors briefed. Specialist counsel and licensed agents in each jurisdiction work under our direction, with one point of accountability for the whole.
Quoted after the design. Typically USD 15,000 to 50,000+.
Keep the structure current, coordinated and ready to function.
For structures we have built. Families change, rules change and signers move. Stewardship adds a yearly cycle of review, monitoring and coordination to the retainer. At the Premium level we also test, under controlled conditions, whether the critical arrangements work.
Optional. Standard from USD 6,000 a year, alongside the retainer.
Method
Most wealth is assembled over time: an account opened here, a company formed there, a will written in one country for assets in four. Each piece may be sound. Together they often depend on one person, one bank or one jurisdiction. The work is to make the pieces function as one structure.
Free Snapshot
A five-minute questionnaire on how your assets are held, where they sit, and how they are controlled. It asks nothing that identifies you or your accounts. Where your assets exceed USD 5 million, it leads into a free 30-minute qualifying call with the person who would do the work.
On the call we look at where your exposure sits and agree whether a monthly retainer or a fixed-price Blueprint suits you better, and what it would cost.
Thesis
Offshore trusts, digital assets, multi-signature custody, jurisdictional structuring, banking redundancy. We combine them deliberately. The legal tools secure what you own; the technical tools secure what you can reach. Structural resilience needs both.
A bank closes an account it has held for years, with no reason owed and none given. A wire is held for review, then returned without comment. A compliance flag locks a family's savings for months while they prove a negative. None of this is the system breaking. It is the system working as designed.
What you own on paper and what you control in practice are no longer the same thing.
The clients Autark serves have already felt that gap. They are not paranoid. They are early.
Practice areas
For internationally mobile individuals and families whose wealth has outgrown the way it is held: ownership spread across countries and advisers, too much in one jurisdiction or one bank, succession that depends on courts or on one person. We design the coordinated structure, build it, and keep it current.
The problems we solveThe legal and technical layers of Bitcoin inheritance, designed together by one licensed firm: multisignature recovery, a legal wrapper that passes title, governance for beneficiaries, and testing that shows the arrangement works. The custody platforms disclaim legal advice; most law firms cannot design a key ceremony. We do both.
How Bitcoin succession worksTrusts, foundations and holding structures in stable jurisdictions, chosen for the client rather than for our convenience: the Cook Islands or the UAE, among others. Structures that separate legal ownership from practical control, secure private and certain succession, and place core assets beyond any single point of failure.
Second residency and citizenship, and the sequencing around them, for internationally mobile individuals and families: where to stand, what leaving costs, and how to move holdings without breaking them. The aim is less geopolitical and regulatory exposure, and more options.
The window to build a resilient structure is before you need it. Not during.
The firm
Civil law and common law qualifications with decades of cross-border experience across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The legal layer is not outsourced. It is what we are.
We do not sell financial products, manage assets, or promote pre-packaged structures. Our role is to design, build and maintain the legal architecture that matches your actual situation.
We hold Bitcoin. We have built the structures we recommend. We operate across the same jurisdictions our clients use. The advice is the product of direct operational experience.
Not a signing key, not a recovery key. We design and verify custody arrangements; control stays with you and the people you appoint.
Autark Advisory is a law firm led by a solicitor of England and Wales and German-qualified Rechtsanwalt, licensed in the UAE through the Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone. We work with internationally mobile individuals and families: people who have built something worth protecting and who understand that the architecture beneath their wealth was designed for a more predictable era.
Most of our clients already have advisers. What they do not have is someone who treats their structure as a whole: across jurisdictions, asset classes, and the legal layer around digital assets. We hold no assets, sell no financial products, and have no interest in your affairs beyond the quality of the structure we help you build.
Managing Partner · Solicitor (England & Wales) · Rechtsanwalt (Germany, lawyer)
A dual-qualified lawyer with over 20 years of cross-border legal experience spanning Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, and East Asia. Has advised sovereign governments, defence and intelligence contractors, and technology firms on regulatory, geopolitical, and structural matters at the highest level. A Bitcoin investor with direct operational experience in multi-jurisdictional digital asset custody. Autark Advisory is built on that depth, not on delegated generalism.
Insights
The structures that served the last generation were built for a different world. This piece maps the structural shifts that matter now, and what to do about them.
ReadNext step
The Snapshot takes about five minutes and maps your exposure across five structural dimensions. Free, followed by a free 30-minute qualifying call. If there is work to do, we will suggest Standing Counsel or a fixed-price Blueprint, and say which we think fits.
