GLEIF LEI Company Lookup: Legal Entity, Address & Parents

Search the official Global LEI index (GLEIF) by company name or LEI and get verified legal name, registration number, jurisdiction, legal form, legal and HQ addresses, LEI status, renewal date, BIC codes and direct/ultimate parent companies. KYC-grade B2B company data.

Data source: the official GLEIF API (api.gleif.org), which publishes the Global LEI index of 2.8M+ legal entities under a CC0 open-data licence that allows commercial reuse. It needs no login, proxy or browser. Results are returned as clean, flat JSON that is ready for spreadsheets, databases, BI tools and AI agents.

What can you use it for?

• KYC/KYB and supplier onboarding: verify a counterparty legal name, registration number and address
• Enrich B2B lead lists with official legal-entity data and corporate parents
• Map corporate ownership trees (direct and ultimate parent)
• Monitor lapsed or retired LEIs among customers and vendors
• Use it as a tool from AI agents through the Apify MCP server, or schedule it and send new results to Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook

Input

Field	Name	Description
searchTerms	Company names	Company names to search (legal or other names), e.g. Apple Inc
searchField	Search in	names = legal and other names (best for company lookups); fulltext = names, addresses and identifiers
leis	LEI codes	20-character LEI codes to look up directly
country	Legal-address country	Two-letter ISO country code filter for name searches, e.g. US, DE, GB
entityStatus	Entity status	Filter name searches by entity status
includeParents	Include parent companies	Add direct and ultimate parent (2 extra API calls per entity)
maxResultsPerSearch	Max results per name	Entities returned per search term

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": [
    "Apple Inc"
  ],
  "leis": [
    "HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 3,
  "includeParents": true
}

Output

Each result is one dataset item with these fields: lei, legalName, otherNames, entityStatus, category, legalFormId, jurisdiction, registeredAs, registrationAuthorityId, entityCreationDate, legalAddress, legalCity, legalRegion, legalCountry, legalPostalCode, hqAddress, hqCity, hqRegion, hqCountry, hqPostalCode, leiStatus, initialRegistrationDate, lastUpdateDate, nextRenewalDate, corroborationLevel, managingLou, bic, successorLei, gleifUrl, query, directParent, ultimateParent.

Example output (real result, long fields shortened)

{
  "lei": "HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394",
  "legalName": "Apple Inc.",
  "otherNames": [
    "Apple Computer, Inc. (PREVIOUS_LEGAL_NAME)"
  ],
  "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
  "category": "GENERAL",
  "legalFormId": "H1UM",
  "jurisdiction": "US-CA",
  "registeredAs": "806592",
  "registrationAuthorityId": "RA000598",
  "entityCreationDate": "1977-01-03T00:00:00Z",
  "legalAddress": "C/O C T Corporation System, 330 N. Brand Blvd, Suite 700",
  "legalCity": "Glendale",
  "legalRegion": "US-CA",
  "legalCountry": "US",
  "legalPostalCode": "91203",
  "hqAddress": "One Apple Park Way",
  "hqCity": "Cupertino",
  "hqRegion": "US-CA",
  "hqCountry": "US",
  "hqPostalCode": "95014",
  "leiStatus": "ISSUED",
  "initialRegistrationDate": "2012-06-06T15:53:00Z",
  "lastUpdateDate": "2026-03-03T16:34:33Z",
  "nextRenewalDate": "2027-03-08T17:27:20Z",
  "corroborationLevel": "FULLY_CORROBORATED",
  "managingLou": "5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12",
  "bic": [
    "APLEUS66XXX"
  ],
  "successorLei": null,
  "gleifUrl": "https://search.gleif.org/#/record/HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394",
  "query": "HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394",
  "directParent": null,
  "ultimateParent": null
}

Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read them through the Apify API.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay $0.002 per legal entity returned, plus standard Apify platform usage, which is small because the Actor uses lightweight HTTP requests (no browser). You are never charged for results that are not returned. To cap spending, set a maximum cost per run in the run options.

Tips

• Start with a small max-results value to check your filters, then scale up.
• Schedule the Actor (for example daily) to monitor changes over time.
• The data comes straight from the source, so its freshness and completeness depend on that publisher.

Disclaimer

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by any website, platform or data publisher named here. Use it in line with the target sites' terms and applicable privacy laws (e.g. GDPR/CAN-SPAM for contact data). Verify critical decisions against the official source.