GLEIF LEI Lookup – Legal Entity Identifier Search & Newly Issued LEIs

Look up Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) in the official GLEIF Global LEI Index, the public register of about 2.9 million companies, funds, branches and other legal entities worldwide. You can search by LEI code (bulk), by company name or by registration / company number. The main feature is a feed of newly issued LEIs by country and date: every day new holding companies, funds, SPVs and subsidiaries get an LEI before they trade, borrow or report.

Each record includes the LEI, legal name and other names, legal and headquarters address, jurisdiction, legal form (ELF code + name), registration authority and company number, entity status, LEI registration status (issued / lapsed ...), initial registration date, next renewal date, managing LOU (LEI issuer), corroboration level, BIC codes, successor entity and, optionally, the direct and ultimate parent company.

Data comes from the official keyless GLEIF API (api.gleif.org). No scraping, no login, no API key. GLEIF publishes LEI data under CC0 1.0 (public domain).

$1 per 1,000 LEI records. Parent lookups are included. You pay only for records saved.

Who uses it

• B2B sales, banks, payment and fintech providers: a daily list of new companies and funds that just got an LEI in Germany, the UK, Luxembourg, Ireland, the US or any other country. These are often new investment vehicles that need banking, custody, audit, insurance or legal services.
• KYC / AML / onboarding teams: verify a counterparty's LEI, legal name, address, status and who owns whom (direct and ultimate parent) in bulk.
• Compliance and reporting (EMIR, MiFIR, SFTR, DORA): check that the LEIs you report are ISSUED and not LAPSED, and see when they must be renewed.
• LEI registration agents: find lapsed or soon-to-expire LEIs for renewal offers.
• Data teams and AI agents: enrich a CRM with LEI, BIC, legal form and parent data.

How it works

The Actor picks its mode from the input:

You fill in	What you get
LEI codes	Bulk lookup, 100 LEIs per API request. Unknown codes are listed in the run summary.
Company names	Top matches per name (legal + other names), best match first.
Registration numbers	Exact match on the business-register number (e.g. HRB 89334).
Nothing of the above	Newly issued LEIs in the chosen countries within the last N days (default 7), newest first.

Filters: countries, entity status (active / inactive), LEI registration status (issued, lapsed ...), category (general, fund, branch, sole proprietor ...). Tick Only LEIs not returned before and schedule the Actor daily to get a monitoring feed of new LEIs.

Input example

{
  "countries": ["DE"],
  "registeredWithinDays": 7,
  "categories": ["GENERAL"],
  "registrationStatuses": ["ISSUED"],
  "includeParents": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Bulk lookup:

{ "leiCodes": ["HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394", "7LTWFZYICNSX8D621K86"], "includeParents": true }

Output example

{
  "lei": "9845001ADF68D5FCD057",
  "legalName": "Companyon Analytics GmbH",
  "otherNames": [],
  "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
  "registrationStatus": "ISSUED",
  "category": "GENERAL",
  "jurisdiction": "DE",
  "legalFormCode": "2HBR",
  "legalFormName": "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung",
  "registrationAuthorityId": "RA000234",
  "registrationNumber": "HRB 89334",
  "entityCreationDate": "2020-03-19",
  "initialRegistrationDate": "2026-10-23",
  "nextRenewalDate": "2027-10-23",
  "managingLou": "529900T8BM49AURSDO55",
  "managingLouName": "Ubisecure RapidLEI",
  "corroborationLevel": "FULLY_CORROBORATED",
  "legalAddress": "Speditionstraße 15a, 40221 Düsseldorf, DE-NW, DE",
  "legalCity": "Düsseldorf",
  "legalCountry": "DE",
  "hqAddress": "Speditionstraße 15a, 40221 Düsseldorf, DE-NW, DE",
  "bic": [],
  "directParentLei": null,
  "directParentExceptionReason": "NO_KNOWN_PERSON",
  "gleifUrl": "https://search.gleif.org/#/record/9845001ADF68D5FCD057",
  "licence": "CC0 1.0"
}

With Include direct & ultimate parent on, a subsidiary such as Siemens S.A.S gets directParentLei: "W38RGI023J3WT1HWRP32" and directParentName: "Siemens Aktiengesellschaft". See SAMPLE_OUTPUT.json for complete records. A run summary (records, total matches, not-found codes, whether the run stopped at the charge limit) is saved as OUTPUT in the key-value store.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.001 per LEI record ($1 per 1,000). Parent lookups, legal-form and LOU names are included. Error rows are free. The run stops gracefully when your maximum charge per run is reached.

Actor	Price per 1,000 records	New LEIs by country/date	Parents
This Actor	$1.00	Yes, newest first + monitoring	Yes, included
logiover/gleif-lei-company-registry-scraper	$3.00	–	–
ryanclinton/gleif-lei-lookup	$2.00	–	–
rtworule (GLEIF)	$1.00	–	–

(Store prices checked October 2026. Features of other Actors may change; check their pages.)

Speed: the GLEIF API allows about 60 requests per minute, and this Actor stays under that limit. Each request returns up to 200 records, so about 10,000 records take ~1 minute. The default run (100 new German LEIs) finishes in a few seconds at 256 MB.

FAQ

What is an LEI? A 20-character ISO 17442 code that identifies a legal entity taking part in financial transactions. It is required for trading, derivatives reporting and many bank and regulatory processes.

Why are newly issued LEIs useful leads? A new LEI usually means a new fund, SPV, holding or subsidiary that is about to trade, borrow, issue securities or open accounts. These entities have just appeared and often still need service providers.

Is this legal? Yes. LEI data is published by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) under the CC0 1.0 licence (see the LEI data terms of use). api.gleif.org/robots.txt disallows nothing, and no key is needed. The Actor uses only the official API and stays under its rate limit.

How fresh is the data? GLEIF updates the API several times a day from the LEI issuers. LEIs issued yesterday are usually present today.

Can I filter by city or legal form? The GLEIF API does not support these filters, so the Actor doesn't either. Country (legal address), status and category are filtered on the server.

Does it return ISINs? No. ISIN mappings need one extra request per LEI, which would make runs much slower. BIC codes are included.

Why does a name search not show the exact company first? The order comes from GLEIF's search ranking. Raise Max results per name or add a country filter.

Use with AI agents / Apify MCP

You can call this Actor as a tool from Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server (gazidev/gleif-lei-search). Example prompts: "List LEIs issued in Luxembourg this week for funds", "Check whether these 50 LEIs are still ISSUED and when they need renewal", "Who is the ultimate parent of LEI 549300VBOZ8U67FXUY26?". The input is plain JSON and the output is flat records, which work well in agent pipelines.

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by GLEIF. LEI data © GLEIF, CC0 1.0.