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
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- 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
Austria and Nigeria, held through city desks.
Vienna, Lagos, and Abuja carry priority-market review and field delivery. Accra, Lisbon, and Bucharest remain available for regional coordination.
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.
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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.
Principal residence utilities
Treatment, redundancy, and continuity for drinking, irrigation, pool, and fire water on primary and secondary residences. Designed for quiet, 24-hour availability.
Off-grid and hybrid energy
Solar, battery, generator, and grid-tie systems engineered to hold the whole estate through outages. Specified for low acoustic footprint and long service intervals.
Estate automation and control
Centralised building management, access control, and remote diagnostics. One dashboard, one escalation path, one responsible partner.
Relocation and due diligence
Pre-purchase infrastructure audits on prospective residences and commercial assets. Written findings within two weeks, with repair and upgrade costings.
Digital and physical security advisory
Quiet coordination with security, network, and facilities teams so that infrastructure decisions do not create downstream exposure.
Ongoing stewardship
Annual service plans, equipment replacement schedules, and vendor coordination. Delivered on fixed retainer with a named principal lead.
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.