Cross-border legal counsel. Twenty years of practice across Germany, the Gulf, and the common law world.
Steffen Feike advises on one question:
Will your structure hold when it is actually tested?
Most do not.
Most wealth structures are built for compliance, tax efficiency, or optics. They work — until jurisdictions assert themselves, counterparties fail, or governments change the rules. That is where they break.
His work focuses on preventing that.
He advises internationally mobile individuals and families on how to structure wealth across borders so that control, access, and continuity are preserved under stress. Not in theory. In adversarial conditions.
His perspective is shaped by more than two decades of legal practice across Europe and the Gulf, including senior roles in defence, intelligence-linked technology, and AI-driven businesses. He has negotiated transactions exceeding $30 billion in aggregate value, often in environments where legal structure, political reality, and operational execution cannot be separated.
He is dual-qualified as a German Rechtsanwalt and a Solicitor of England & Wales, and operates primarily under English law while maintaining deep familiarity with UAE and German legal frameworks.
He is the founder of Autark Advisory, a UAE-based law firm focused on jurisdictional risk, structural resilience, and cross-border wealth architecture.
His current work includes trust design, asset compartmentalisation, and the custody architecture of digital assets such as Bitcoin.
If your wealth depends on a single jurisdiction, a single custodian, or a single narrative holding, it is not a structure. It is an assumption.
The modern wealth system rests on a quiet assumption: that you will remain legible, reachable, and compliant within the jurisdictions you depend on. Most structures are built accordingly. They optimise for efficiency, tax, and reporting. They function well — until the environment changes.
Code Sovereign starts where that assumption fails.
It examines where legal systems actually derive their leverage, how jurisdiction attaches itself to assets and individuals, and where that attachment breaks down. Law is territorial. Wealth is not. Control sits in the gap between the two.
This is not a book about tax strategies or offshore tactics. It is about structure. About how to design arrangements that remain functional when pressure is applied — when rules shift, access is restricted, or counterparties fail.
The focus is practical and unsentimental: custody, jurisdictional exposure, succession, and the legal mechanics that determine who ultimately controls assets across borders. It draws on two decades of work in environments where legal precision and political reality are closely linked, and where failure has consequences beyond paperwork.
Most people operate within a single legal narrative and assume it will hold. Often it does. Until it does not.
This book is written for those who have started to question that assumption — and who want to understand what a structure looks like when it is built to survive.
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REGISTER INTERESTAutark Advisory FZ LLC is a RAKEZ-licensed law firm advising internationally mobile families and asset owners on jurisdictional risk, structural resilience, and cross-border wealth architecture. The practice is grounded in English law, informed by twenty years of UAE commercial practice, and draws on a working knowledge of German law for clients whose structures or backgrounds intersect with German-speaking jurisdictions.