Dmitry Malyshev

In Short

Dmitry Malyshev is a qualified lawyer with seven years of legal practice. He helps founders decide where to put the company and how to get it licensed — registering businesses in Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic, running CASP authorisation under MiCA, and writing the legal opinions that banks and partners ask for. He advises in English, Estonian and Russian.

In legal practice

7 years

Company registration

four jurisdictions

Professional Summary

Most clients arrive with the same two questions: where should the company sit, and will the business need a licence to do what it plans to do. Dmitry answers both before anything is registered — weighing Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic against the real model, ownership chain and banking prospects, then establishing which activities trigger authorisation.

From there he runs the build itself: incorporation, corporate documents, the hiring and internal procedures a supervisor expects to find, and the written opinions banks and partners ask for along the way. The test he applies is whether the plan survives contact with daily operations — onboarding, contracts, banking conversations and the company’s own capacity to keep it running.

Key Facts & Track Record

Role, focus areas and qualifications at a glance.

What ties this together is the combination of legal training and a commercial role. Dmitry sees both what the rules require and what a client can actually resource — and says so at the start of a project rather than at the end of it.

What Dmitry Helps Clients With

Dmitry works with founders, executives and compliance teams, usually at the point where the business plan exists but the jurisdiction, the structure or the licensing route has not been settled.

In practice, he helps clients with:

• choosing between Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic — and then registering the company there;
• corporate law support: governance routines, internal decisions and the paperwork that keeps a company in good standing;
• licensing strategy for crypto, blockchain and fintech models, including CASP authorisation under MiCA;
• payments projects, including EMI and PSP setups and the compliance logic behind them;
• legal opinions on crypto-assets and MiCA for banks, payment partners, investors and counterparties;
• investment structures: roles, control mechanisms and documentation that still holds once operations start.

None of these are settled in isolation. The jurisdiction shapes the licensing route, the licensing route shapes how the company has to be built, and a decision taken on one of them narrows the options on the other two.

Related Services

These are the Eesti Firma services Dmitry works on directly, either scoping them at the start or running them himself:

• Company formation in Estonia — the structure, share capital and management setup, including groups with a foreign parent company.
• Company registration in Lithuania — for models that fit the Lithuanian regime better, including businesses heading for CASP authorisation there.
• Legal services — corporate documents, internal decisions and written advice on Estonian company law.
• MiCA licence for a CASP — establishing which crypto-asset services require authorisation and running the application project.
• MiCA policy pack and pre-filled CASP application — a ready-made set of MiCA-aligned policies and a documentation roadmap to build on.

Representative Matters

A sample of the projects Dmitry has run. Client names and identifying details are left out, as the work is confidential, but the mix is typical of what reaches him.

• Building a MiCA-licensed business in Lithuania. Took a crypto project from an empty shell to a working licensed operation: setting up the Lithuanian company, recruiting the local staff the regulator expects to see — management, compliance and AML officers with the right background — and building out the substance, internal procedures and governance behind the CASP application.
• MSB registration in Canada. Guided a client through federal Money Services Business registration with FINTRAC — the compliance programme, reporting and record-keeping obligations, and the practical differences between the Canadian regime and its European counterparts.
• Company registration across four jurisdictions. Set up companies in Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic — in several cases after first working out which of the four actually suited the client’s model, ownership chain and banking prospects.
• Business consulting for crypto companies. Advised founders on how to turn a product idea into a structure that can be licensed, banked and operated: which entity holds what, where the regulated activity sits, and what the sequence of steps should be.
• Legal opinions on crypto and MiCA. Prepared written opinions on the classification of crypto-assets and services under MiCA — for banks, payment partners, investors and counterparties who need a documented answer before they proceed.

One pattern runs through nearly all of them. The brief usually reads “how do we get licensed”, and the useful answer starts a step earlier — with where the company belongs and which of its activities require authorisation at all. Sorting that out first is what tends to save the project months later.

Role at Eesti Firma

Dmitry is usually the first person a client speaks to. He uses that first stage to establish what the project actually involves — the objective, the constraints, a realistic timeline and what each route costs — before any work starts. In regulated industries a vague scope rarely stays vague for long; it comes back as a delay.

He then stays with the file rather than handing it on, coordinating the licensing, corporate and compliance strands so that expectations, deadlines and document requirements do not drift apart.

Eesti Firma OÜ has operated in Tallinn since 2016 as a licensed trust and company service provider.

Professional Experience

Dmitry has practised law for seven years. His work has settled at the point where corporate law meets financial regulation: company structures on one side, authorisation requirements on the other. The commercial half of his role adds a standing check on both — whether the client can actually deliver the plan within its budget, its timeline and the team it has.

Regulated and Cross-Border Work

His regulated work centres on crypto and blockchain, fintech, payment services (EMI and PSP) and investment structures — mostly in the EU, though Canadian MSB registration falls into the same category. The decisive question is much the same wherever the client lands: which activities require authorisation, and what has to exist on paper and in the office before a supervisor accepts the file.

On the substantive legal analysis he works alongside the firm’s legal team; the sequencing, deadlines and communication are his.

Education

Dmitry holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Law from the Financial University (FinU). That grounding shows in how he approaches corporate and regulated projects: careful documentation, an eye for where a dispute could later start, and a clear allocation of responsibility between the parties.

Professional Values & Work Approach

Dmitry’s clients hear the reasoning, not only the conclusion: why a step is needed, what it costs and what follows if it is skipped. Where there are several viable routes, Dmitry sets them out with their trade-offs instead of presenting one as the only option.

He would rather raise an awkward point in the first week of a project than explain it in the last, and he favours solutions that still work once the company has outgrown its first year.

Get in Touch

Dmitry is based at the Eesti Firma office in Tallinn and works with clients remotely across Europe and beyond. For company registration, corporate structuring, a licensing project or a written opinion on a crypto model, write to [email protected] or call +372 641 7777.