GLEIF Corporate Family Tree — subsidiaries by parent LEI, no login

Give this actor a company's Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and it returns every subsidiary GLEIF has resolved beneath it — the full corporate family tree, not just direct children. It calls GLEIF's own official ultimate-children endpoint (the same public Access Service behind gleif.org's search), so the parent/child resolution is GLEIF's, not a scrape of a web page.

Open data, CC0 1.0 licensed: free to use commercially, no permission or attribution required (source: GLEIF LEI Data Terms of Use). This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by GLEIF — it's an independent client of their public API.

Tested (2026-09-02)

Parent LEI	Company	Subsidiaries found
HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394	Apple Inc.	20 (India, China, Chile, ...)
254900TWD71M3MX9I453	Apple Management Inc. (no children)	0

A LEI with no registered subsidiaries simply returns 0 items (no charge) — it's not an error.

Don't have the LEI yet?

Use the companion actor GLEIF LEI Company Registry Lookup to search a company by name and get its LEI first, then feed that LEI into this actor.

Input

{
  "targets": ["HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394"],
  "maxItems": 2000
}

Each target is a 20-character parent LEI code.

Output

One dataset item per subsidiary:

Field
lei	the subsidiary's own 20-character LEI
legal_name	subsidiary's registered legal name
entity_status	ACTIVE / INACTIVE
category	e.g. FUND, GENERAL
jurisdiction	ISO country/region code of incorporation
legal_form_id	ISO 20275 legal form code
hq_country / hq_city	headquarters country and city (no street address — company-identifying fields only, no personal data)
registration_status	ISSUED / LAPSED / RETIRED / etc.
managing_lou	the Local Operating Unit (issuer) managing this LEI
initial_registration_date / last_update_date / next_renewal_date	LEI lifecycle dates

No personal data: LEI records identify companies and funds, not individuals.

Why this over GLEIF's own website

gleif.org shows one entity's relationships at a time, in a UI built for eyeballs, not pipelines. This actor batches multiple parent LEIs in one run and hands back structured rows — for KYB (know-your-business) ultimate-beneficial-owner checks, M&A research, or competitive intelligence that needs the whole family tree in a dataset.

Use Cases

• KYB ultimate-beneficial-owner checks — resolve a company's full subsidiary tree in one call instead of walking gleif.org page by page
• M&A due diligence — see every entity under a parent LEI, across jurisdictions, before acquisition research
• Competitive intelligence — map a competitor's corporate structure and where it operates
• Compliance screening — cross-reference subsidiary LEIs and hq_country against sanctions or watch lists

Pricing

Pay per event: $2.00 per 1,000 subsidiary records collected. Nothing else.