Where Inteliumlaw scores highest
Inteliumlaw’s strength is coverage plus practical follow-through. The Riga-based team documents work across nine EU member states — with country-specific pages for each — plus five non-EU markets, the broadest footprint of these three firms. For a founder who’s decided the CEE route makes sense, that means one counsel relationship spanning Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.
The banking-introduction service matters more than it sounds. CASP banking access in CEE is genuinely hard — local banks stay selective. A counsel that introduces banks alongside the licensing work cuts the time from authorisation to live operations, which is why it’s a real edge for cost-led applicants.
Where Inteliumlaw is weaker
Two pillars hold the score down. Ex-regulator credentials are limited and publicly thin, and prudential-capital and ICT-resilience depth is lighter than the specialist leaders — so on complex Class 3 or significant-CASP files, it’s less proven. Specialisation is the other soft spot: gaming and forex licensing lines run alongside crypto and dilute the pure-crypto focus. If your file needs deep supervisory insight, the leader firms have more to draw on.
Inteliumlaw by jurisdiction
Latvia is home ground — the Riga office runs CASP work with Latvijas Banka, where the firm’s operational footprint is deepest. Across the border, it files standard Class 1 and Class 2 MiCA CASP applications with the Bank of Lithuania and handles CASP work with the Czech CNB, pairing both with banking introductions. The offering is built for the CEE and Baltic playbook on a disciplined budget, less so for Western EU home-state files.