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Fernandez Jankov Legal Intelligence

Legal Intelligence for Complex Assets and Cross-Border Structures

Founder-led legal advice for families, founders, companies and institutions navigating assets, succession, recovery, governance and strategic matters across jurisdictions.

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Understanding the whole.Shaping what comes next.

Who we advise

  • Families
  • Founders
  • Companies
  • Institutions
  • International Stakeholders

We advise clients whose legal, financial and institutional realities extend across assets, generations, businesses and jurisdictions.

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Our approach

Every complex matter is a system.

People, assets, ownership structures, jurisdictions and institutions influence one another. Our method identifies these relationships and transforms them into a coherent legal strategy.

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We connect legal analysis, comparative perspective, financial understanding and institutional judgement to identify what truly matters, clarify available paths and coordinate decisions that work in practice and over time.

Expertise

  1. 01

    Asset Recovery and Complex Cross-Border Matters

    Trace. Protect. Recover.

    Strategic legal coordination involving concealed, disputed or internationally dispersed assets, ownership structures, enforcement and multi-jurisdictional complexity.

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  2. 02

    Cross-Border Wealth

    Structure. Preserve. Transfer.

    International wealth structuring, asset protection, succession planning, tax coordination and long-term ownership strategies.

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  3. 03

    Trusts, Estates and Family Governance

    Govern. Transition. Endure.

    Trusts, estates, family holdings, succession liquidity, governance arrangements and continuity across generations and jurisdictions.

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  4. 04

    International Strategic Advisory

    Analyse. Coordinate. Advance.

    Independent legal analysis and strategic coordination across legal systems, advisers, institutions and regulatory environments.

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Transversal expertiseWomen’s Asset Protection

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Asset recovery

When assets cross borders, legal strategy must connect the whole picture.

Asset recovery requires a coordinated understanding of ownership, corporate structures, jurisdictions, evidence, enforcement mechanisms and the interests surrounding the assets.

Fernandez Jankov Legal Intelligence designs and coordinates cross-border recovery strategies, bringing together the appropriate legal, financial and investigative expertise for each matter.

  • Asset tracing and ownership analysis
  • Cross-border enforcement strategy
  • Coordination of counsel and specialist advisers
  • Complex family and corporate asset disputes
  • Recovery strategy involving multiple jurisdictions
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Cross-border wealth

Structure for continuity across jurisdictions.

We advise on international wealth structures designed to preserve ownership, support succession, coordinate tax and regulatory considerations and sustain value across generations.

  • International wealth and ownership structures
  • Asset protection and succession planning
  • Founder liquidity and succession liquidity
  • International tax and regulatory coordination
  • Insurance-based and premium-finance structures subject to independent legal analysis

Trusts, estates and family governance

Continuity requires structure.

We advise families and founders on trusts, estates, holding structures, succession arrangements and governance frameworks capable of supporting ownership, transition and long-term purpose.

  • Trusts, foundations and holding structures
  • Estate and succession planning
  • Family governance and decision-making arrangements
  • Intergenerational transition
  • Philanthropy and long-term purpose
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International strategic advisory

Independent judgement across systems and jurisdictions.

We provide strategic legal analysis for matters shaped by multiple legal systems, regulatory environments, advisers and institutional interests.

The practice is personally led by Fernanda and assembles specialised legal, tax, financial and investigative expertise according to the needs of each mandate. This structure gives clients direct strategic leadership and a coherent view of the matter as a whole.

  • Comparative legal analysis
  • Public law and regulatory strategy
  • Corporate and institutional structuring
  • Digital governance
  • Coordination across jurisdictions and advisers

Women’s asset protection

Ownership. Agency. Independence. Continuity.

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Strategic advice for women navigating inherited wealth, matrimonial assets, family businesses, trusts, international holdings, succession and asset recovery.

The work centres on ownership, informed decision-making, personal agency and long-term continuity.

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Founder

A legal mind shaped across systems, disciplines and jurisdictions.

Fernanda F. Fernandez Jankov, PhD, TEP Founder fernanda.jankov@fernandezjankov.eu

Professor Dr Fernanda Florentino Fernandez Jankov is a Brazilian and Portuguese lawyer whose work brings together private wealth, public law, international law, comparative legal analysis and institutional strategy.

Educated in Brazil and the United Kingdom, she holds a Law degree from the University of São Paulo and a Graduate Diploma in Law from Nottingham Trent University. Her work across civil law and common law jurisdictions supports a distinctive understanding of ownership, authority, wealth, succession and cross-border complexity.

She holds a doctorate from the Federal University of Paraná and completed postdoctoral research at the University of São Paulo. Her international experience includes the Lauterpacht Centre at the University of Cambridge, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the Institute of Comparative Law in Belgrade. A full member of STEP and a Trust and Estate Practitioner, she advises through a comparative and systems-based perspective.

More about my journey

Credentials

Legal practice
Lawyer admitted in Brazil and Portugal
Private wealth
Full Member of STEP and Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP)
Education
  • Law, University of São Paulo
  • Graduate Diploma in Law, Nottingham Trent University
  • Postgraduate studies in Tax Law, IBET
  • Master’s, PROLAM USP
  • PhD, UFPR
  • Postdoctoral research, USP
International experience
  • Former Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge
  • Former researcher, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
  • Institute of Comparative Law, Belgrade
Comparative capability
Professional and academic experience across civil law and common law traditions

Contact

Begin a private conversation.

Every engagement begins with understanding the matter, its wider context and what needs to be protected, resolved or built.

Contact Fernandez Jankov contact@fernandezjankov.eu
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