Nuquí · Family Capital Design Studio
I design the architecture that carries a family's capital through the next ten to twenty years. Independently, without products of my own, and with one interest only: yours.
Three situations I see again and again
The wealth was tied up in the company, not sitting in an account. Then, all at once, a substantial sum is in the bank.
Without structure. Without a plan. With many advisors at the door, and no one looking at the whole picture.
A son or daughter is asked to structure and steward the family's capital, and to build a family office around it.
Without a roadmap. Often without experience in that particular role.
A death, a divorce, a gift, a move abroad, a partner who takes over, a reshuffling of the family shareholdings.
Each of those moments calls for a new plan.
The market reality
The first advice I give is not financial advice.
Set the money aside for a moment. Take the time. Think about the architecture before you start building. I am not a wealth manager, a law firm or a tax advisor. I design the whole picture and define which specialists are needed, with which mandate, in which order and at what cost.The question I start with
It is rarely the first question on the table. I start with it, because the answer determines what the governance looks like, how the next generation is prepared, and how the whole blueprint reads: as a human story rather than a technical document.
Why the studio exists
Independence is rarely guaranteed as long as fees and products are part of the picture. I am paid by the family alone, through a project fee agreed in writing before the work starts. I accept no retrocession, introduction fee, commission or any other remuneration from a bank, advisor, fund manager or family office. Every engagement letter states this. I have nothing of my own to sell.
I design your family office. I never manage your money.
How I design a family office
Eight building blocks, weighted differently for every family, and designed as one whole rather than eight separate projects.
What I deliver
One detailed document that sets out the architecture of a family's capital and sets the direction for the next ten to twenty years. It covers the eight building blocks, weighted and sequenced for that family alone.
What it holds for your family depends entirely on your family, which is why the conversation comes first. The blueprint belongs to the family. I design, the family decides. Implementation lies with the specialists the family appoints, each with a mandate the blueprint defines.
Founder
The most complex questions are rarely technical. They are about trust, about generations, and about what you actually want to leave behind.
Twenty-five years in M&A, private equity and real assets, fifteen of them at partner level within an independent investment group, working alongside families, founders and institutional partners in Belgium, Europe and Latin America.
Trained as a corporate and M&A lawyer at the universities of Antwerp and Leuven, with an LL.M. from Duke University. Years in private practice, accredited mediator, and independent in-house counsel to listed multinationals.
Honorary Consul of Colombia in Antwerp. Ambassador of Epic Foundation, a global foundation protecting children, young people and the planet.
How we start
A confidential conversation about your situation, your family and your questions. Without obligation and without an agenda.
We go through the existing structures together, so that the blueprint builds on what is actually there.
On the basis of the intake I present a proposal for the full blueprint: scope, approach, timing and fee.
Contact
A first conversation is confidential, carries no agenda and commits you to nothing. Advisors with a family in mind are equally welcome to get in touch.