Monthly retainer
A lawyer who knows your position, retained month by month.
Standing Counsel gives you a dual-qualified lawyer, a solicitor in England and Wales and a Rechtsanwalt in Germany, who knows your holdings, your jurisdictions and your family, and who can answer before the decision is made.
Fee
Up to four hours of advice each month. Further time at USD 650 an hour, agreed before it is used.
Terms
Paid monthly in advance. No notice period: you can end the retainer at the end of any month.
Projects
Where a question needs a defined piece of work, we quote it as a fixed fee before work begins, or bill it by the hour if you prefer.
Most of what goes wrong in a cross-border structure starts as a small decision made without the whole picture.
Scope
One continuing relationship with the person who would do the work, scoped by time rather than by product.
Advice
Access
USD1,600a month
Up to four hours of advice. Paid monthly in advance. Included hours do not carry over to the next month.
Not within the retainer
Principal
Managing Partner · Solicitor (England & Wales) · Rechtsanwalt (Germany)
A dual-qualified lawyer with over 20 years of cross-border practice across Europe, the Gulf, Africa and Asia. Before founding Autark Advisory he held senior legal roles at Airbus Defence and Space, G42 and Presight, where he led the legal function through its listing on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange. A Bitcoin investor, with direct experience of digital asset custody across several jurisdictions.
Every retained client deals with him directly. He answers the questions, keeps the file and leads any project that follows.
Projects
Some questions need a defined piece of work. We scope it with you and quote it before anything starts. A project is always a separate decision.
A fixed-price Blueprint of how your wealth is held, controlled and set to pass on, and the structure you need. USD 5,500 to 12,500.
The design turned into a working structure: entities, instruments, custody and handover. Quoted by workstream, typically USD 15,000 to 50,000+.
For structures we have built: a yearly cycle of review, monitoring and, at the Premium level, Live-Fire testing, alongside the retainer. From USD 6,000 a year.
If you would rather begin with one defined project than a continuing relationship, Architect is available on its own at a fixed fee.
Capacity
We act for a limited number of retained clients at any one time, so that each position is known in detail. Retainers are offered after the free qualifying call, for clients with investable or protectable assets above USD 5 million.