Division I · Commercial
Three practices, engaged separately or as a single mandate. Every engagement opens with a written diagnostic — findings first, recommendations second, never the reverse.
The legal architecture of expansion beyond Earth is being written right now, mostly by people who will never live under it. We help states and institutions write it deliberately.
Outer space is governed by a treaty drafted in 1967 — before anyone had mined an asteroid or run an election across a light-second of delay. The counter above is the age of that instrument. The gap between it and the coming decade is where our work sits.
Domestic statute and bilateral instruments compatible with the Outer Space Treaty and the Artemis Accords, drafted with the succession problem in mind: what happens when the settlement outlives the state that chartered it.
Frameworks that distinguish extraction from appropriation, with allocation rules that survive contact with a functioning market rather than collapsing into first-come sovereignty.
Decision procedures for populations separated by non-negotiable signal latency, where simultaneity is not available and consent must be reconstructed after the fact.
Where an autonomous system may act on a settlement's behalf, where it may only advise, and how a human body retains meaningful review when review arrives seventeen minutes late.
Charters, escalation paths and dissolution clauses for entities that must function without recourse to a terrestrial court.
A decade of execution: food commodities, copper, silver, gold, and the historical bond market — an instrument class that rewards patience and punishes improvisation.
Vilu began as a trading house and never stopped being one. The advisory practice is downstream of that: we counsel on markets we have actually settled trades in.
Origination, counterparty diligence and settlement across the Americas and Europe, from five offices that have been in place long enough to be answered when they call.
Copper, silver and gold. Copper in particular: the metal that carries every signal, oxidizes into something else entirely, and remains the constraint on every electrification schedule ever published.
Authentication, provenance and valuation of pre-war sovereign instruments. A field with more claimants than experts. We advise on both sides of that asymmetry.
Early-stage positioning in regolith, water ice and orbital manufacturing inputs — a market that will be priced long before it is delivered.
Allocation counsel for funds with a thirty-year horizon and a mandate that outlasts every government that will ever supervise it.
Institutions do not fail at adopting technology. They fail at deciding who they still are afterwards.
Our framework, Ancestral Evolution, holds a single operating principle: evolve without forgetting. Everything in this practice is an application of it.
Not tool rollout. The prior question: which judgments the institution refuses to delegate, written down before anyone is asked to delegate them.
Managing teams where some members do not sleep, do not forget, and do not experience consequence. The authority structure has to change or it becomes fiction.
A pan-ancestral framework — five principles, six axioms — applied to institutional memory. What an organization carries forward, and what it merely possesses.
Succession designed for heirs who will live under governance regimes that do not yet exist. Structures that transmit conviction, not only capital.
A written assessment of whether an institution's charter, culture and decision rights would survive relocation off Earth. Most would not. The audit says where.
How we work
The order is fixed. We do not present recommendations before the diagnostic is accepted in writing.
Four to six weeks. Interviews, document review, a written statement of what is actually true. Delivered whether or not it is welcome.
Options, each with its failure mode named. We do not present a single path and call it a strategy.
We stay. Drafting, negotiation, internal communication — through to the first decision made under the new structure.
The engagement ends when the institution can run the framework without us. That date is agreed at the start.
Begin
Serious enquiries receive a considered reply, whether or not we take the mandate.