MENA Companies Directory: Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia and 19 more countries, from the official LEI register

Search registered companies, banks, funds and holding companies in Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco and more by country and name. You give countries and optional search words; you get one row per legal entity with the legal name (often in Arabic or English), registered address, city, legal form, commercial registration number, registration authority, creation date and the LEI code.

Use it to build B2B lead lists of real legal entities, check that a counterparty exists, enrich a customer list with registration numbers, or map banks and large corporates in the region. Data comes from the official GLEIF Global LEI Index (open CC0 data), with no login and no scraping of a website.

What you get

• 22 countries: Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Djibouti, Palestine, Sudan, Turkey, Israel.
• Search words in names and record fields (bank, cement, holding, pharma, telecom, Orascom...).
• Filters for active or inactive entities, LEI status (issued, lapsed...) and city.
• Fields: LEI, legal name, other names, address, postal code, city, headquarters address, legal form, category, registration authority and number, entity status, creation date, LEI renewal dates and a link to the official record.
• No personal data. Entities registered as individual sole proprietors are removed from the results.

Input

Field	Meaning	Example
countries	Country of the legal address	["Egypt", "United Arab Emirates"]
searchTerms	Words to search, each separately	["bank", "cement"]
cities	Optional city filter (name as registered)	["Cairo", "Dubai"]
entityStatus	ACTIVE, INACTIVE or ANY	"ACTIVE"
leiStatuses	Optional LEI statuses	["ISSUED"]
maxCompanies	Stop after this many companies	100

Example input:

{
  "countries": ["Egypt", "Saudi Arabia"],
  "searchTerms": ["bank", "cement"],
  "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
  "maxCompanies": 200
}

Output

Example rows (real output, trimmed):

Company	Country	City	Legal form	Registration no.	LEI status
NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT	Egypt	CAIRO	JOINT STOCK COMPANY	200000462	ISSUED
بنك اتش اس بى سى مصر شركة مساهمة مصرية	Egypt	CAIRO	SOCIETE ANONYME EGYPTIENNE	218992	ISSUED

Full JSON item:

{
  "lei": "2138001QZGOK42KGQM03",
  "legalName": "NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT",
  "otherNames": [],
  "countryCode": "EG",
  "country": "Egypt",
  "city": "CAIRO",
  "region": "EG-C",
  "address": "NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT TOWER, 1187 CORNICHE EL NIL, CAIRO PLAZA",
  "postalCode": "4311001",
  "headquartersCity": "CAIRO",
  "category": "GENERAL",
  "legalFormOther": "JOINT STOCK COMPANY",
  "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
  "creationDate": "1965-01-01",
  "registrationAuthorityId": "RA000179",
  "registrationNumber": "200000462",
  "leiStatus": "ISSUED",
  "initialRegistrationDate": "2017-10-31",
  "nextRenewalDate": "2027-11-05",
  "leiUrl": "https://search.gleif.org/#/record/2138001QZGOK42KGQM03",
  "source": "GLEIF Global LEI Index (CC0 1.0)"
}

Python example

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("alfhar/mena-companies-lei-directory").call(run_input={
    "countries": ["Egypt"],
    "searchTerms": ["bank"],
    "maxCompanies": 50,
})
for c in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(c["legalName"], c["city"], c["registrationNumber"], c["lei"])

Use cases

• Lead lists of banks, funds and large corporates in a MENA country.
• KYC and supplier checks: confirm the legal name, address and registration number of a counterparty.
• Enriching a CRM with registration numbers and legal forms.
• Market maps of regulated and financial entities by country.

Limitations

• The register covers entities that hold an LEI: banks, funds, listed and large companies, and firms that trade financial instruments or need an LEI for contracts. It is not a full commercial register, and most small Egyptian or Gulf businesses are not in it. Use it for corporates and financial entities, not for every shop.
• Names appear as the entity registered them, in Arabic, English or both, with inconsistent capitalisation.
• The source cannot filter by city, so the city filter is applied by this Actor after download. Combine it with search words for fast runs.
• No phone numbers, e-mail addresses or websites are available in this source.

Data source and licence

Data: GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, Global LEI Index, retrieved through the public GLEIF API (api.gleif.org). LEI data is published under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 and may be reused and redistributed, including commercially. Credit is appreciated: "Source: GLEIF (Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation)". This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by GLEIF.

Pricing

Pay per result, no API key needed. Billing is pay per event: a small fee when a run starts plus a fee for every company returned. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops at your limit (the minimum allowed is $0.10). See the pricing panel on this page for the current rates.

Support

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