Regulatory and licensing
Regime selection and gap analysis, application files for CASP, payments, e-money and gaming authorisations, correspondence with supervisors, and the obligation calendar that starts the day a licence is granted.
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About ITLex
A team organised by discipline, a registered company and verifiable credentials.
ITLex is a team of lawyers and compliance specialists working on regulated digital business. Mandates are staffed by discipline, each has a named lead who stays with it from brief to delivery, and where a jurisdiction requires a locally admitted lawyer we engage local counsel and name them before instruction.
AML and financial crime
Business-wide risk assessments, policies and procedures, transaction monitoring design, MLRO support and remediation after a supervisory finding.
Corporate and commercial
Group structuring, intragroup agreements, platform, supplier and affiliate contracts, data protection documentation and support on transactions and due diligence.
Disputes and defence (Ukraine)
Advocate representation in Ukrainian proceedings through the domestic practice — including searches, questioning and criminal defence.
Founder and owner
Roman Stoichev, advocate
Founder and owner of the practice. Admitted to the Ukrainian bar in 2010, certificate on the right to practise law No. 195 of 22.04.2010 — the entry is public in the Unified Register of Advocates of Ukraine. Member of the Ukrainian National Bar Association.
The practice began in commercial and criminal defence work. Since 2018 it has been built around technology and regulated digital markets, because that is where the clients' problems moved — a payment account closed without explanation, a partner demanding a compliance file, a market that suddenly required a licence.
His role today is the practice rather than the paperwork: setting the standard the files are held to, deciding which mandates we take, and being the person a client can escalate to. Day-to-day delivery sits with the discipline teams above, each mandate with its own named lead.
A note on the criminal-law background, because clients ask. It is not a separate line of work here — it changes how a compliance file is written. A document drafted by lawyers who have read files inside an investigation is drafted with one eye on how it will be read if something goes wrong, which is a different document from one drafted only to satisfy an application.
Details
Company and credentials
- Contracting entityITLEX LTD
- Registered number17044071 (England and Wales), incorporated 19 February 2026 — the record is public at Companies House
- Registered officeSuite 418, 37 St. Andrews Street, Norwich NR2 4TP, United Kingdom
- Ukrainian practiceAttorneys-at-Law Bureau «Stoichev and Partners», EDRPOU 41551972
- Kyiv office17-V Hryhoriia Skovorody St., Kyiv 04070, Ukraine
- AdvocateRoman Stoichev
- CertificateNo. 195 of 22.04.2010, right to practise law in Ukraine — Unified Register of Advocates of Ukraine
- Professional bodyUkrainian National Bar Association
- LanguagesEnglish, Ukrainian, Russian
- Time zoneEET / EEST (UTC+2 / UTC+3)
Two sites, one practice
The division is by market, not by how much attention the work receives.
- itlex.pro — international regulated digital business: structuring, AML/KYC, licensing, banking onboarding. English by default.
- itlex.legal — the Ukrainian practice, including advocate representation during searches and questioning in criminal proceedings, and domestic commercial work.
What this practice is, precisely
Advice is given by an advocate admitted in Ukraine. ITLEX LTD is the contracting entity and is not a firm of solicitors regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority; it does not carry out activities reserved to authorised persons in England and Wales. Where a matter requires a lawyer admitted in another jurisdiction, local counsel is engaged and identified to you before instruction.
Working with us
How the first contact works
Written first. It costs you less time and it produces a better answer than a call where both sides are guessing.
You write
A short description of the product, the markets, how payments flow and what the deadline is. Three paragraphs is plenty.
We reply within a day
Either an initial view and the questions that would change it, or a straight answer that this is not our area.
A call if it helps
Thirty minutes, no charge, to close the gaps that email cannot. Not a sales call — if there is nothing to do, we say so.
Written scope and fee
Deliverables, sequence and cost, before any work starts. You approve it or you do not.
Confidentiality
Everything you tell us is covered by the advocate's professional duty of confidentiality from the first message, whether or not we go on to work together. A separate NDA is available on request, but the obligation does not depend on signing one.
Principles
How this practice works
Written answers
Every stage produces a document you can forward to your board, your bank or your co-founder without translating it first.
No promised outcomes
We do not quote licence dates or guarantee approvals. We give you the statutory windows, the realistic range and the variables that move it.
No bait and switch
The lawyer who scopes the matter leads it. Specialists join by discipline, local counsel is named before instruction, and you always know who is drafting what.
Declined work is declined clearly
If a matter is outside what we do, or the AML risk cannot be resolved, you get that answer in the first reply rather than after an invoice.
Frequently asked questions
Are you a Ukrainian lawyer advising on EU law?
An advocate admitted in Ukraine, advising on EU regulatory frameworks — MiCA, the payments regime, AML obligations — which are set at EU level and apply uniformly. Where a matter requires a lawyer admitted in a specific member state, for a local filing or a court appearance, local counsel is engaged and identified to you before instruction. We do not present ourselves as admitted where we are not.
Can you represent us before a regulator?
We prepare the file, draft the correspondence and manage the substance of the exchange. Formal representation before a national authority is handled with local counsel where the jurisdiction requires an admitted local lawyer.
Do you work with early-stage companies?
Yes, and preferably before commitments are made. The cheapest work we do is the assessment that stops a founder incorporating in the wrong place; the most expensive is unwinding it eighteen months later.
How do we verify who you are?
The certificate number and the register link are above. The firm's EDRPOU number can be checked in the Ukrainian state register, and the Ukrainian practice is at itlex.legal with the same details. If a bank or counterparty needs confirmation in another form, ask and we will provide it.
Tell us what you are building
A short description of the product, the markets and the payment flows is enough for us to say what is required, in what order and at what cost.
Describe your matter
We reply within one business day with a scope, the deliverables and an indicative fee — not a brochure.