Company Registry Lookup: LEI and Norway

What does Company Registry Lookup do?

Company Registry Lookup finds companies in public business registers and returns them in one clean schema. Give it a list of company names, LEI codes or Norwegian organisation numbers. You get back the legal name, legal form, status, registered address, company number, industry codes and LEI details.

Two registers today:

• the Global LEI Index from GLEIF, with more than 3 million legal entities in every country
• the Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Enhetsregisteret), with Norwegian companies, associations and public bodies

It works as a simple company search API: no API key, no login, no browser.

Why use it?

• KYB and onboarding checks. Confirm that a supplier or customer exists, is active and sits at the address it gave you.
• Data enrichment. Add legal form, LEI, company number and industry code to a CRM or spreadsheet.
• Due diligence lists. Run hundreds of names in one go and get one row per match.
• One format for many registers. The same field names whether the company comes from the LEI index or from Norway.

On Apify you can schedule runs, call the Actor through the API, and send results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or a webhook.

What data does it return?

Field	Example
name	EQUINOR ASA
country	NO
registryId	923609016
lei	OW6OFBNCKXC4US5C7523
legalForm	Allmennaksjeselskap
status	active
registeredAddress	Forusbeen 50, 4035 Stavanger
industryCodes	06.100 Extraction of crude petroleum
employees	21231 (Norway only)
foundedOn	1972-09-18
leiStatus, leiNextRenewal	issued, 2027-11-09
recordUrl	link to the record at the source

Every record also carries source, license, source_updated_at and retrieved_at, so you always know where a row came from and how fresh it is.

No personal data. The output is a fixed list of fields about the legal entity, so names of directors, owners, shareholders and contact people never appear. Sole proprietorships are left out entirely. Their legal name is a person's name. Address lines that route mail to a person, such as c/o, are removed too.

How to look up companies

1. Open the Actor and paste your list into Companies to look up, one per line.
2. Pick the registers. Both are selected by default.
3. Optionally limit name searches to some countries with two-letter codes such as DE or FR.
4. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

The Actor detects the kind of each line by itself:

• a 20-character code with valid check digits is an LEI
• nine digits with a valid check digit are a Norwegian organisation number
• anything else is a name

How much does it cost?

You pay $3 per 1,000 companies returned ($0.003 each). Lookups that find nothing cost nothing. A run stops by itself when it reaches the maximum charge you set for it. The monthly credit of the free Apify plan is enough to try it.

Input

See the input tab for every option. In short:

• queries: names, LEI codes or Norwegian organisation numbers
• sources: lei, norway, or both
• countries: optional filter for name searches
• maxResultsPerQuery: up to 100 matches per name and register (default 10)
• includeInactive: also return dissolved, merged or bankrupt companies

Output

{
    "query": "Equinor ASA",
    "matchedBy": "name",
    "name": "EQUINOR ASA",
    "country": "NO",
    "registryId": "923609016",
    "legalFormCode": "ASA",
    "legalForm": "Allmennaksjeselskap",
    "status": "active",
    "registeredAddress": { "lines": ["Forusbeen 50"], "postalCode": "4035", "city": "STAVANGER", "region": "STAVANGER", "country": "NO" },
    "industryCodes": [{ "code": "06.100", "description": "Utvinning av råolje", "scheme": "SN (Norwegian NACE)" }],
    "employees": 21231,
    "website": "https://www.equinor.com",
    "vatRegistered": true,
    "registeredOn": "1995-03-12",
    "recordUrl": "https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/oppslag/enheter/923609016",
    "source": { "name": "Brønnøysund Register Centre, Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Enhetsregisteret)", "url": "https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/oppslag/enheter" },
    "license": { "name": "Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0", "url": "https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0" }
}

A SUMMARY record in the key-value store lists, for each query, how many companies were found and whether a register failed to answer.

Tips

• Searching by LEI or organisation number is exact and returns one company. Use it when you have the code.
• A name search matches current and previous names, so Statoil still finds Equinor in the LEI index.
• Keep maxResultsPerQuery low when you only need the best match. You pay per company returned.

Data source and licence

• Global LEI Index, published by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF): gleif.org. Licence: CC0 1.0.
• Enhetsregisteret, published by the Brønnøysund Register Centre: data.brreg.no. Licence: NLOD 2.0. Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by the Brønnøysund Register Centre.

The Actor selects and renames fields. It does not change their values.

This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by GLEIF or the Brønnøysund Register Centre.

Registers can be late or wrong, so check the source record before any decision that depends on it.

FAQ

Can I look up companies from other countries?

Yes, if they have an LEI. More national registers will follow.

Why is a company missing?

It may have no LEI, be a sole proprietorship, or be inactive while includeInactive is off.

Found a problem?

Open an issue in the Issues tab and describe the query that went wrong.