Practice · Private office
Private-office problems, held accountably.
ASE operates as the private solutions arm of the family office: residences, estates, operating real estate, household systems, and infrastructure, end to end, alongside your investment, tax, legal, and fiduciary teams. Where no dedicated office exists, the firm establishes and runs the function outright. Under NDA by default.
- Engagement posture
- NDA
- Delivery model
- Partner-led
- Operating offices
- 6
- Relationship
- Retained
Representative engagement posture for a senior family office mandate. Specific scope, response windows, and retainer terms are set in the written brief.
Regional desks
Held through the firm’s city desks.
Lisbon and Abuja hold private-office and estate work; Vienna sets the review standard.
Mandate fit
Private office standard from the first brief.
Private-office infrastructure must respect ownership, household cadence, fiduciary teams, and long-term stewardship before any technical recommendation is made.
- 01
Discreet intake
Ownership, access, and household constraints are handled under senior review.
- 02
Estate-wide view
Water, energy, controls, property, and vendors are considered together.
- 03
Retained stewardship
The mandate closes with a named escalation path, not a loose handover.
Alongside your administration & fiduciary counsel
- Trident
The brief
One partner across the office.
Most mandates sit alongside an existing office, carrying the infrastructure and property layer the fiduciary side is not resourced for. A growing number ask us to establish the office itself: governance structures, accounting, household, property, and infrastructure consolidated under one accountable lead. Either way, the ambition is the same: a single point of responsibility for everything the family owns and uses.
The estates we work on are measured in decades, not quarters. Our stewardship posture is the same.
Start a family office engagement
One introductory call. No follow-up sequence.
Thirty minutes with a senior partner to understand the estate, the priorities, and whether ASE is the right fit. A written summary follows within two working days and, where useful, a scope sketch.
- Current estate profile: water, energy, automation, digital.
- Priority failures, pain points, or planned upgrades.
- Discretion, documentation, and reporting expectations.
- Written follow-up or a clear decline, quickly.
Under NDA by default. No client is published or referenced without written consent.