ZENIT WEALTH ADVISORS

Chief Executive Officer Rafael Sangiovanni leads the investment committee. Sangiovanni founded the firm in 1995 and has guided its cross-border investment strategy since inception. The committee draws on a small internal team and external manager relationships built over nearly three decades of U.S.-Latin America advisory work.

Zenit's client base is composed of high-net-worth families, family offices, and institutional investors primarily from Latin America. The firm's core value proposition is offering these offshore clients access to U.S.-based alternative investments and wealth management services. Countries of origin frequently cited include Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia.

Zenit structures portfolios across multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, private credit, real estate, hedge funds, and infrastructure. The firm invests through fund commitments to U.S.-based general partners and participates in direct co-investments when available. Real estate — particularly U.S. Sun Belt multifamily and industrial — has historically been a significant allocation.

Zenit operates as a multi-family office and registered investment advisor. It does not serve a single source of wealth but instead aggregates capital from multiple unrelated Latin American families. This structure allows it to negotiate institutional terms with U.S. fund managers and share due diligence costs across its client base.

Zenit blends fund commitments with direct co-investment opportunities alongside trusted U.S. general partners. The firm prefers direct real estate when it can acquire property on behalf of clients in preferred markets like Florida and Texas. For private equity and venture, it relies on established fund managers and evaluates co-invest rights as part of overall manager selection.

The firm maintains in-house expertise and external partnerships covering cross-border tax structuring, estate planning, and regulatory compliance for Latin American families investing in U.S. assets. This operational layer — handling treaty analysis, entity formation, and repatriation planning — is a core component of the service model, not an add-on.

Zenit is purpose-built for offshore families and does not compete for domestic U.S. retail or institutional clients. That origination model concentrates its relationships in Latin America and directs the resulting capital into a curated set of U.S. alternative managers. The firm combines Miami-based proximity to U.S. sponsor headquarters with Spanish- and Portuguese-language fluency and regional cultural competence.