Infrastructure for crypto, fintech, and high-risk businesses
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Jagelski & Partners is a strategic consultancy. We scope formation, licensing, banking, and payments 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.
Many consultancies sit at one of two extremes. Some attempt everything in-house, sacrificing depth for the appearance of completeness. Others refer clients out before the case is understood, sacrificing clarity about what the work actually requires. Jagelski & Partners is built for the space between: rigorous written scoping, a qualified introduction, and specialist execution with responsibility sitting clearly with the firm that performs the work.
Independent by design
We sell no services ourselves. Every piece of execution is delivered by a specialist partner, and that partner pays us for the introduction, so nothing we recommend is constrained by an internal catalogue. Jagelski & Partners never bills you for the written scope or the introduction; the specialist's own professional fee and any government or statutory charges remain separate. 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 case.
Clear accountability
We scope the case, structure the route, and select the independent specialist best placed to take it forward. From the introduction onward, the specialist contracts directly with the client, runs the engagement, and remains accountable for the advice, delivery, and outcome.
One brief, matched to the right specialist.
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 structure the route in writing and introduce the independent specialist best placed to deliver it.
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.
Make the introduction
We introduce the independent specialist best placed to take the case forward. The client and specialist then contract directly, and the specialist owns the workstreams and their dependencies.
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 case 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 bring 17+ years of regulatory advisory experience across fintech and virtual-asset markets, and are engaged by governments to draft national crypto frameworks; the 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 scoping of every case.
The senior-level scoping sits with the founder. Each written brief is reviewed under his direction before Jagelski & Partners introduces the independent specialist best placed to assess it. The specialist decides whether to accept the case, contracts directly with the client, and remains responsible for the work.
Richard Jagelski
Founder & Managing Director
Richard leads Jagelski & Partners. He scopes each case personally from the written brief, sets the route through licensing, banking, and formation, and selects the independent specialist best placed to take it forward. The relationship moves to that specialist at the introduction.
Worldwide scope. Jurisdiction by operating model.
Cases routinely span jurisdictions: banking in continental Europe, licensing in a Gulf jurisdiction, a holding structure in the Caribbean, and acquiring capacity in Asia. Jagelski & Partners maps those components in the written scope, then introduces the independent specialist best placed to handle the combined route.
The jurisdiction follows the case
The operating model determines the route. Licensing, formation, banking, and payments are scoped wherever the case is workable, with each component matched to the jurisdiction and specialist that fit it.
Start with a written brief.
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.