PRINCIPAL · FOUNDER
M. Laurent
Operating principal. Signs strategy memoranda and final mandates. Twenty years across European private banking and Asia-Pacific real estate.
COUNSEL
Investors deserve to know who actually signs the work. This page names the principals who operate the platform, and the categories of counsel engaged on every mandate.
PRINCIPAL · FOUNDER
M. Laurent
Operating principal. Signs strategy memoranda and final mandates. Twenty years across European private banking and Asia-Pacific real estate.
EDITORIAL · THE QUARTERLY
The Editors
Field Notes and The Quarterly are signed editorially. Pieces are dated, attributed, and never sponsored. No guest contributors. No paid placements.
LEGAL COUNSEL · THAILAND
External, named per engagement
Land structuring, Chanote verification, leasehold review, company formation and Thai property law are handled by Thailand-registered counsel under written engagement letter.
TAX & STRUCTURING
External, jurisdiction-specific
Cross-border tax structuring is reviewed by qualified advisors in the relevant jurisdictions of the investor — never offered in-house, never improvised.
DUE DILIGENCE
Independent surveyors & engineers
Technical due diligence — title, survey, structural, environmental — is commissioned from independent third parties. Reports are delivered to the client directly.
We do not pretend to be lawyers, notaries, surveyors, or tax advisors. We operate a controlled platform that engages qualified counsel under written terms, and that delivers their work directly to the client — unmodified, signed, and traceable.
Every mandate that closes carries the signatures of named professionals. Every report belongs to the client. Every engagement letter is on file. This is what we mean when we say controlled execution.
— A NOTE ON NAMES
Individual counsel are named to the client at engagement, not to the public web. This protects both the professional and the confidentiality of the matter.