The infrastructure partner for crypto, fintech, and high-risk businesses.
Jagelski & Partners is a Tallinn strategic consultancy. We scope formation, licensing, banking, payments, and capital placement for crypto, fintech, and high-risk operators worldwide, then route execution to a vetted network of specialist partners. We do not draft the legal opinions or open the bank accounts ourselves; we make sure the firms that do are the right ones for the case.
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Built for the middle ground that serves the client better.
Most consultancies sit at one of two extremes. Some attempt everything in-house, sacrificing depth for the appearance of completeness. Others refer clients out at the first complication, sacrificing continuity at the moment the work gets hard. Jagelski & Partners is built for the space between: specialist execution, with strategic continuity from a single point of contact.
Independent by design
We do not sell most services in-house, so recommendations are not constrained by an internal catalogue. We answer what infrastructure your business actually needs first; which provider executes each piece comes second, decided on the merits of the case.
Specialist execution
Each component of the stack is delivered by people who run that component for a living. Licensing, banking, formation, and payments are handled by partners who operate in those markets every day, not by generalists learning on your mandate.
Single accountability
One relationship holds the whole engagement together. We scope the case, structure the route, select the partner for each component, and coordinate across them, while the specialists stay accountable for their own domains.
One relationship, coordinated across specialists.
We start by understanding the operating model, the markets you serve, and what you need to move forward, whether that means launching, expanding, or strengthening an existing stack. From there we assemble the route and run the specialists who deliver each component, in the right sequence.
Scope the case
We read the operating model and identify where the infrastructure has to hold under regulatory and commercial pressure.
Structure the route
We map the combination of licensing, formation, and banking the model needs, and the order it has to happen in.
Select the partner
We match each component to the specialist partner best placed to execute it for your sector and your jurisdictions.
Coordinate execution
We manage the dependencies between workstreams so the bank account and the licence application never stall each other.
A small, senior practitioner bench
The bench behind Jagelski & Partners brings 25+ years of cumulative banking, FX, and payments experience, built across correspondent banking at Tier 1 European institutions, cross-border payment flows, and treasury operations for fintechs scaling from one jurisdiction to many. Keeping it small means every mandate is known and individually scoped at the senior level.
Specialists who run each component for a living
Around that core sits a network of 50+ legal, regulatory, and compliance specialists who deliver the execution, the licensing partners bringing 16+ years of regulatory advisory experience across fintech and virtual-asset markets. They are engaged by governments to draft national crypto frameworks; banking partners hold pre-qualification relationships with institutions that rarely accept direct applications from high-risk operators. Keeping it broad means each part of the stack is delivered by people who own that domain.
Senior ownership of every mandate.
The senior level sits with the founder. Each mandate is scoped under his direction before any partner is engaged, and the firm’s accountability for the outcome stays in-house while the specialist partners execute their domains.
Richard Jagelski
Founder & Managing Director
Richard leads Jagelski & Partners from Tallinn. He scopes each engagement personally, sets the route through licensing, banking, and formation, and holds the relationship with the client from the first scoping call through to delivery across the partner network.
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Banking & Payments
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Formation & Structuring
Based in Tallinn. Working across six regions.
Mandates routinely move across two or three regions in a single engagement: banking in continental Europe, licensing in a Gulf jurisdiction, a holding structure in the Caribbean, acquiring capacity in Asia, all coordinated by Jagelski & Partners as the single point of contact.
Why Tallinn
The Estonian base is a current-regime choice, not a legacy one. Estonia offers MiCA-aligned authorisation through the Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority (Finantsinspektsioon), EU passporting by notification under MiCA Article 65, and one of the more efficient digital-government environments in the Union for cross-border financial-services work.
Start with a scoping conversation.
Tell us what you are building. We will tell you what the infrastructure stack looks like, what the realistic sequence is, and which specialists are right for each component. Response within one business day.