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About Envoy
Envoy Private Fiduciary was founded on a shared commitment to integrity, character, and dedication. Our team brings together broad, combined expertise in law, estate administration, and family dynamics to serve as an independent, trusted partner for your family. Working together, we ensure that your affairs are handled in a way that honors your wishes.
We know that every person, every family, and every estate is unique. Our vast experience includes handling real estate portfolios, museum-quality antiquities, rare books, historical and modern artwork, couture personal property, jewelry, medical practice unwinding, and more. We understand that family dynamics can be difficult, we bring calm, rational equilibrium to minimize conflict and achieve resolution. That said, should conflicts arise, we are extremely well positioned to face those challenges to protect you, your estate, and your beneficiaries.
As an Envoy client, you, your loved ones, and the estate you’ve spent a lifetime creating will receive the highest quality of attention and support whether your estate is modest or substantial, straightforward or elaborate.
Our mission is to provide a personal, comprehensive commitment to ensuring your short and long term plans are respectfully fulfilled.
Meet the Team
The Team at Envoy offers decades of experience in the legal, financial, accounting, and healthcare industries. When you need someone to handle your affairs with care and precision, we get things done.
Deana La Barbera
Founder and California Licensed Professional Fiduciary
Deana was born in Santa Monica, CA and raised in the San Fernando Valley. With two older brothers in a Sicilian home, needless to say, her tenacity emerged early on. Having grown up in the restaurant business, La Barbera’s on Wilshire, Deana’s family focus, work ethic, and business acumen have guided her personal and professional life.
While earning her BA in Psychology from California Lutheran University, Deana worked as a part-time teller at Cal Fed Bank (remember them?). That part-time college job resulted in her becoming a licensed securities rep, and lead to her first career as a stockbroker with Shearson Lehman Brothers (remember them, too?). Her securities industry training was in New York with Lehman Brothers, but her sense of justice and childhood dream of becoming a lawyer pulled her out of that world and into Pepperdine University School of Law where she earned her J.D, magna cum laude. Building on her securities foundation, Deana moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. While there, she earned an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Securities and Financial Regulation from the Georgetown Law Center, where she graduated with distinction.
A quarter-century of legal experience has allowed Deana to focus on broad, but interrelated, practice areas including securities regulation, general counsel, real estate, and trusts and estates. It is this last area of law that took on a primary focus, and what led her to found Envoy Private Fiduciary. While searching for effective and efficient asset managers for her clients when planning for difficult times of life and after death, Deana saw first-hand the shortage of effective and efficient professionals in the fiduciary industry.
Deana said, “I envisaged a practice that would provide the services that our team would want for ourselves and our families throughout our lives and after.” Our team at Envoy is the perfect convergence of expertise to fill this need in our community.
Our Team
Our team brings extensive hands-on experience in physical therapy, family logistics, and complex estate coordination, along with a Certified Public Accountant's expertise in accounting and financial reporting. We bring compassion, attention to detail, and professional care to every family we serve.