Offshore trusts, digital assets, multi-signature custody, jurisdictional structuring, banking redundancy. Legal tools and technical tools, deliberately combined. One secures what you own, the other secures what you can reach. Resilience needs both.
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Start with the Free Snapshot → Book a Qualifying Call → Direct line +971 506 213 144A quick, honest read on the gap between what you own on paper and what you control in practice. The questionnaire takes about five minutes and covers how your assets are held, where they sit, and how they are controlled. It maps your exposure across five structural dimensions and leads into a free 30-minute qualifying call with the person who would do the work, not a sales team.
Free · Followed by a free qualifying call · Strictly confidential.
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. A platform drops an entire category of customer overnight. None of this is the system breaking. It is the system working as designed. The KYC, AML, and CTF rules written to keep money safe now decide who may hold it, move it, and keep it, while the rails of payment and communication narrow into a few private hands. 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.
The core engagement. A flat-fee written diagnostic and architecture recommendation. We pressure-test how your wealth is held, controlled, and exposed, against the specific ways structures fail, and hand you a blueprint precise enough to build from. Credited in full against implementation.
Full structural audit across assets, entities, and jurisdictions
Scenario testing against distinct failure modes
A graded verdict on each part of the structure
A build-ready blueprint, yours to keep with us or without us
The build, delivered as named flat-fee packages: Foundation & Succession, the Bitcoin Inheritance Protocol, or the combined Sovereign Wealth Architecture. The blueprint determines the structure. We design it, select the specialist counsel and licensed agents in each jurisdiction, and direct the build into one delivered whole under a single point of accountability.
Entities and instruments formed through licensed agents and specialist counsel, directed by Autark
Build and migration into the new structure
Every third party coordinated into one delivered whole
Trust, custody, and succession brought into effect
A yearly read of the structure against a changing world. We confirm it still holds and still answers, and say plainly where it has drifted.
Structure checked against how it was built
Signers, keys, and banking lines confirmed
A jurisdictional watch for relevant change
A short written verdict
The end state. Once a year we direct a live drill in which you move real value through the structure under live conditions, proving it works when you need it, not just on paper. We take no custody and hold no keys. Between drills, the retainer carries personal general-counsel access for structural questions as they arise.
Everything in the Annual Review, as the floor
A directed drill in which you move value through the structure
Every signer and key exercised by its holder under live conditions
Personal general-counsel access through the year
Note: Our strategies are designed for clients with investable or protectable assets exceeding USD 2 million. We do not sell financial products, manage assets, or offer one-size-fits-all structures.
The legal and technical layers of Bitcoin inheritance, designed together by one licensed firm: legal title, multisig key succession, and heir onboarding, so self-custodied wealth survives its holder. The custody platforms disclaim legal advice; the law firms cannot design a key ceremony. We do both.
We analyze how assets are held, controlled, and exposed across jurisdictions, then design coherent legal structures that remain resilient under stress.
DIFC and ADGM foundations, trusts, and holding structures in stable jurisdictions that separate legal ownership from practical control, secure private and certain succession, and place core assets beyond any single point of failure.
Advisory for internationally mobile individuals and families on jurisdictional positioning, reducing geopolitical and regulatory exposure, and increasing mobility and optionality.
Six situations that turn paper ownership into a problem.
A bank ends a relationship it has held for years, with no reason owed and none given. The money that felt safe is suddenly out of reach.
Succession runs through a public court. Heirs wait months while assets sit frozen and the family's affairs become a matter of record.
A jurisdiction tightens controls, reporting, or tax. A structure that was compliant yesterday is exposed today, with no time to move.
Digital assets held with one point of failure. One lost seed or one compromised signer, and the holding is gone for good.
A marriage ends and assets held in one name, or built without protection, are opened to a court that splits them with no regard for how they were meant to pass.
A co-signatory dies, loses capacity, or simply stops responding. A structure that needs their authority to move can no longer act.
The clients who come to us are not in crisis. They have concluded, calmly, that acting now is cheaper than acting later. They are right. The window to build a resilient structure is before you need it. Not during.
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 and, where needed, build 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 not theoretical. It is the product of direct operational experience.
Most advisers optimise for a stable world. We design for the one that actually exists: fragmented, multipolar, and increasingly hostile to the assumption that yesterday's structure will hold tomorrow.
Autark Advisory is a law firm built for the world as it is, not as it was supposed to be. It is led by a lawyer admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales and to the Munich Bar as a 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, intuitively or explicitly, 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. That is what we do. We are architects, not product providers. 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.
Our work spans three client situations: internationally mobile individuals planning or executing a jurisdictional move; Gulf-based individuals who have accumulated wealth without formal structure beneath it; and Bitcoiners who have opted out of the monetary system but not yet resolved the legal and structural layer around their holdings. In each case, the engagement is the same in spirit: map the real exposure, then build something that holds.
Steffen Feike
Co-Founder & 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 AI and technology firms on regulatory, geopolitical, and structural matters at the highest level. A Bitcoin investor since 2018 with direct operational experience in multi-jurisdictional digital asset custody. Autark Advisory is built on that depth, not on delegated generalism.
Nadia Al Jabri
Founder & Equity Partner
An accomplished Emirati entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience. A key connector in the UAE's business and infrastructure ecosystem, with deep ties to the Emirati business community, influential expatriates, and diplomatic circles. She bridges international capability with local execution across critical infrastructure and renewable energy.
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The Snapshot takes under five minutes and maps your exposure across five structural dimensions. Free, followed by a free 30-minute qualifying call. Relevant for any internationally mobile individual, regardless of nationality or current jurisdiction. Strictly confidential.