GLEIF LEI Lookup: Company Ownership, Parents & Subsidiaries

Look up any company in the global LEI system (3.4 million legal entities, 200+ countries) and get its official identity with its direct and ultimate parent company, list every subsidiary of a group, or search the register by country, city, legal form, LEI issue date or renewal date.

Official GLEIF data, free to reuse (CC0). No scraping.

What can you do with it?

• 🔎 Find the LEI of a list of companies. Paste names (BNP Paribas, Siemens AG, Tesla, Inc.), LEIs, national registration numbers (SIREN, HRB…), ISINs or BIC codes. You get one row per input, in the same order, with a match score.
• 🏢 KYC / AML / supplier due diligence. Legal name, registered address, legal form, registration number and authority, LEI status (valid or lapsed), and who owns the entity: direct parent, ultimate parent, or the official reason why no parent is reported (owned by natural persons, no known controller…).
• 🌳 Map a corporate group. Give the LEI of a parent company and get all its subsidiaries, level by level, in every country: TotalEnergies SE returns 219 entities; filter them by country, city or status.
• 🎯 Prospecting. Entities that got an LEI in the last 7 days (new funds, SPVs, companies starting to trade or borrow), entities whose LEI has lapsed, or whose renewal is due in the next 30 days. Ideal for LEI registration agents, banks, brokers and B2B data teams.
• 💹 Securities data. ISIN → issuer, and optionally the list of ISINs issued by each entity.

Why this Actor?

	This Actor	Typical LEI lookups
Direct and ultimate parent, with names, in every result	✅	❌ or extra runs
Reason when no parent is reported (natural persons, no known person…)	✅	❌
Whole corporate group, all levels, filterable	✅	❌ direct children at best
Company-name matching	✅ legal forms understood (AG = Aktiengesellschaft, S.A. = SA…), group head preferred over namesake subsidiaries, brands and acronyms (LVMH)	⚠️ first text hit, often a fund or a branch
Registration number, ISIN and BIC look-ups	✅ SIREN/SIRET formats handled	❌
LEI check digits verified, typos reported	✅ not charged	❌ charged or silent
No cap on search results	✅ cursor pagination (the API stops at 10,000 otherwise)	⚠️
Legal form and registration authority in plain words	✅ "société par actions simplifiée", "Commercial Register — Local Court Pinneberg"	❌ codes like 6CHY, RA000320

Input

Look up (one result per input, in order; inputs not found come back with found: false and are not charged):

Field	Example
companyNames	["TotalEnergies SE", "Siemens AG", "Tesla, Inc."]
leis	["529900S21EQ1BO4ESM68"]
registrationNumbers	["542051180", "HRB 42243"]
isins	["FR0000120271"]
bics	["BNPAFRPP"]

Corporate group: groupParentLeis (e.g. ["529900S21EQ1BO4ESM68"]) and directSubsidiariesOnly.

Search the register (any combination):

Field	Description	Example
countries	ISO codes of the legal address	["FR", "DE"]
cities / postalCodes	Exact city names / postal codes (districts like "Lyon 2eme" included)	["Lyon"]
nameContains	Words that must appear in the legal name	"capital"
categories	Companies, funds, branches, sole proprietors, government entities…	["GENERAL"]
legalForms	ISO 20275 ELF codes	["6CHY"] (French SAS), ["2HBR"] (GmbH)
leiStatuses	ISSUED, LAPSED, RETIRED…	["LAPSED"]
activeOnly	Exclude dissolved entities (default true)	true
registeredWithinDays / registeredSince / registeredUntil	LEI issue date	7
renewalDueWithinDays	LEI renewal between today and today + N days	30
parentCompaniesOnly	Only entities with subsidiaries	true

Options: includeSubsidiaryCounts (number of direct subsidiaries and of group entities), includeIsins (up to 100 ISINs + total count per entity), maxResults.

Examples:

{ "companyNames": ["BNP Paribas", "Deutsche Bank", "LVMH"] }

→ BNP PARIBAS (FR), DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (DE) and LVMH MOET HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON (FR): the group heads, not one of their namesake subsidiaries.

{ "countries": ["FR"], "cities": ["Lyon"], "leiStatuses": ["LAPSED"] }

→ active companies in Lyon whose LEI has lapsed.

{ "countries": ["DE"], "renewalDueWithinDays": 30, "categories": ["GENERAL"] }

→ German companies whose LEI must be renewed in the next 30 days (soonest first).

Output

Real example (companyNames: ["TotalEnergies Bitumen Deutschland GmbH"]):

{
    "found": true,
    "lei": "529900695SG4TLQD6O26",
    "legalName": "TotalEnergies Bitumen Deutschland GmbH",
    "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
    "leiStatus": "ISSUED",
    "category": "GENERAL",
    "legalFormCode": "2HBR",
    "legalForm": "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung",
    "registrationNumber": "HRB 598 ME",
    "registrationAuthority": "Commercial Register — Local Court Pinneberg",
    "address": "Industriegebiet Süd",
    "postalCode": "25541",
    "city": "Brunsbüttel",
    "country": "DE",
    "entityCreationDate": "1989-02-16",
    "leiIssuedDate": "2014-01-20",
    "nextRenewalDate": "2027-02-16",
    "daysUntilRenewal": 137,
    "corroborationLevel": "FULLY_CORROBORATED",
    "directParentLei": "529900S21EQ1BO4ESM68",
    "directParentName": "TotalEnergies SE",
    "directParentCountry": "FR",
    "ultimateParentLei": "529900S21EQ1BO4ESM68",
    "ultimateParentName": "TotalEnergies SE",
    "ultimateParentCountry": "FR",
    "hasSubsidiaries": false,
    "ownership": "Subsidiary of TotalEnergies SE (FR)",
    "gleifUrl": "https://search.gleif.org/#/record/529900695SG4TLQD6O26",
    "dataAsOf": "2026-10-02",
    "query": "TotalEnergies Bitumen Deutschland GmbH",
    "queryType": "name",
    "matchType": "exact",
    "matchScore": 100,
    "otherMatches": []
}

Other fields: otherNames, jurisdiction, region, headquarters address (hqAddress, hqCity…), lastUpdateDate, managingLou, bics, mics, openCorporatesId, spGlobalIds, conformityFlag, expirationDate / expirationReason, successorLei / successorName, directParentException / ultimateParentException, and in group mode groupParentLei, groupParentName, groupRelation ("direct subsidiary", "indirect subsidiary (level 2)"…).

Match types for names: exact (same name; same legal form when you give one), close (same name with another legal form, or a small typo), partial, group head (brand or acronym: the parent shared by the entities carrying that name). otherMatches lists companies with the same name in other countries.

Why no parent? When an entity reports no parent, the official reason is given:

Code	Meaning
NATURAL_PERSONS	Controlled by one or more natural persons
NO_KNOWN_PERSON	No known person or entity controls it (e.g. widely held listed company)
NON_CONSOLIDATING	The controlling entity does not consolidate it in its accounts
NON_PUBLIC / LEGAL_OBSTACLES / CONSENT_NOT_OBTAINED…	Parent exists but its disclosure is restricted

Notes

• Ownership data is what entities report to the LEI system (accounting consolidation, IFRS / US GAAP). It is official and widely used for KYC, but not a beneficial-owner (UBO) register.
• Sole proprietors (natural persons) are only returned in searches when you select that category.
• GLEIF allows 60 requests per minute: name look-ups take 1–5 seconds each, searches and groups return several thousand entities per minute. includeSubsidiaryCounts and includeIsins add one request per entity.

Pricing

Pay per entity returned. Inputs that are not found are free. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops exactly there.

Source & licence

LEI data from the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) Golden Copy, published under CC0 1.0 (free reuse, including commercial). This Actor is independent: it is not affiliated with or endorsed by GLEIF. Data is provided as published by the LEI issuers.