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04 Band 2

Sygna Legal

Vilnius, Lithuania · Founded 2020 · 10-15 team
CLBR index score
69/100

Founders who've settled on Lithuania and value deep Bank of Lithuania relationship over multi-jurisdiction breadth.

Score breakdown · CLBR v1.0

Seven pillars, one score.

Licensing specialisation 17/22

Exclusive crypto-licensing focus with no general-corporate practice — the highest specialisation in this tier. A smaller bench than the volume leaders is the only thing keeping this pillar off its ceiling rather than any dilution of focus.

Jurisdictional coverage 10/18

Six jurisdictions total — Lithuania-led with secondary Baltic and CEE coverage. Breadth is the narrowest here, traded deliberately for an unusually deep command of the Bank of Lithuania's process.

Licences secured 10/15

Documented Lithuanian filings since 2020, estimated at 25-40, credited on engagement quality with the Bank of Lithuania rather than raw volume. An established but focused record.

AML / DORA depth 7/13

Named bios show some regulator-side experience and published Lithuanian financial-services commentary, but the ex-regulator and prudential-capital bench is lighter than the depth-led boutiques carry.

Transparency 9/12

Published methodology and indicative fee bands, plus named testimonials with verifiable sources. A clear, mid-upper transparency layer that stops short of the fullest published pricing.

Post-licence support 9/10

Full-service through the Lithuanian engagement, with banking handled via a documented panel of partner banks rather than in-house. Well-mapped, if not fully under one roof.

E-E-A-T 7/10

Named team page with full bios, Lithuanian-language publications and English thought leadership. Authority is credible, but the conference and whitepaper footprint is smaller than the leaders'.

Sygna Legal wins this tier on focus. It runs an exclusive crypto-licensing practice — no general-corporate work to split attention — and pairs that with the deepest command of the Bank of Lithuania’s CASP authorisation process of any firm in this band. For a founder whose jurisdiction is already Lithuania, that regulator-relationship depth is a specific, usable edge: the team files with the supervisor it knows best.

Transparency helps too. Published methodology, indicative fee bands and named testimonials with verifiable sources make the engagement easy to scope up front.

The trade-off is breadth. The firm files across just six Baltic and adjacent CEE jurisdictions, so it doesn’t offer the multi-jurisdiction optionality the broad-coverage leaders do. A smaller bench also means less slack during peak filing periods. And while named bios show some regulator-side experience, the ex-regulator and prudential-capital depth is lighter than the depth-led boutiques carry — so on a file that turns on capital modelling, the specialist leaders have more to draw on.

Lithuania is the core — the Vilnius team leads CASP authorisation and VASP-to-CASP transition work with the Bank of Lithuania, with documented filings since 2020. Estonia sits alongside as secondary Baltic coverage, with MiCA CASP filings to Finantsinspektsioon, and the firm handles VASP-to-CASP transition work with Poland’s KNF as adjacent CEE coverage. The pattern is narrow but deep: fewer jurisdictions, more regulator familiarity in each.

Reviewed by Editorial team · Last updated 2026-07-14 · Scored on the CLBR rubric. Placement is editorial and never sold — see disclosure.