Château Fiduciaire

Château Fiduciaire

Château Fiduciaire operates as a multi-family office anchored on Geneva's rue du Mont-Blanc, where it owns the building it occupies. President Patrick-Dominique Bittel and administrators Jean-Marc Wenger and Pascal Aeby steer a quiet fiduciary practice serving families and individuals with wealth structuring, preservation, and transfer. The firm became publicly visible only through litigation — as trustee for The Map Trust, a 1997 vehicle established by the late David Fine for his children, and as administrator of the Cayman-registered Forward Sports Fund that held Leeds United until Ken Bates bought the club in 2011. Investment exposure spans hedge funds, insurance-linked and re-risk strategies, and sports franchises. The Leeds United ownership structure illustrates the firm's operating model: an anonymous offshore entity layered under Swiss administration, with no public-facing brand. Beyond sports, the firm scans Web3, blockchain, and ESG technologies as thematic focuses. Château Fiduciaire applies no minimum or standardized mandate — each family's deployment is negotiated privately and structured through Luxembourg, Cayman, or Swiss corporate SPVs, with direct co-investment, fund-of-funds, and trust-administered vehicles all in play. Geographic concentration sits in Europe. The firm also directly holds Swiss commercial real estate through related companies including Société Immobilière Rue du Mont-Blanc 7 SA and an asset at 3, place du Molard. Bittel, Wenger, and Aeby serve as directors of these holding entities, keeping property and fiduciary services under the same umbrella. No philanthropic foundation, club memberships, or external investment committees are publicly disclosed. What distinguishes Château Fiduciaire structurally is its posture as a fiduciary shell rather than an investment brand. It does not market, does not publish performance, and appears designed to be invisible — the entity owning the entity. Succession and governance sit entirely with the three named administrators, whose public trail exists almost exclusively in commercial registry filings and the Leeds United litigation. For families that require a Swiss nexus with no story, that architecture is the product.