LEI Lookup — GLEIF Identity & Ownership Records

Resolve a company name or an LEI code to its official identity record: legal name, legal form, jurisdiction, registry number, registered address, ownership and listed securities. 3.4 million entities from the global register banks and regulators use.

What it does

The Legal Entity Identifier is a 20-character code that identifies a company unambiguously anywhere in the world. Behind each code sits a record checked against a national business register and re-validated annually. GLEIF, the foundation that runs the system, publishes all of it as open data.

Supply LEI codes, company names, or a pasted list of both. The Actor determines which is which — a 20-character alphanumeric string is looked up as a code, anything else is searched as a name — and returns one row per query with 39 fields on every row.

What you get

39 fields per row, including lei, legal_name, entity_status, legal_form, jurisdiction, registered_as, the registered and headquarters addresses, registration_status, next_renewal_date, ultimate_parent_name, successor_lei, isins_count and matched_by.

The table view shows 13 of them; all 39 are in the JSON, CSV and Excel downloads.

Input

Field	Meaning
leis	LEI codes, 20 characters each.
names	Company names to search.
queriesText	A pasted list of either, one per line.
includeRelationships	Fetch the ownership tree. Off by default.
maxEntities	Stop after this many. 0 removes the cap.

{
  "queriesText": "549300RIVY5EX8RCON76\nUbisecure Oy",
  "includeRelationships": false,
  "maxEntities": 100
}

Sample output

One record, relationships off:

{
  "query": "549300RIVY5EX8RCON76",
  "matched_by": "lei",
  "lei": "549300RIVY5EX8RCON76",
  "legal_name": "FERRARI N.V.",
  "entity_status": "ACTIVE",
  "legal_form": "B5PM",
  "jurisdiction": "NL",
  "registered_as": "64060977",
  "legal_city": "Maranello",
  "legal_country": "NL",
  "ultimate_parent_name": null,
  "isins_count": 0,
  "issues": ""
}

Pricing

Event	Per 1,000	Notes
Entity resolved	$4.00	Queries that find nothing are not charged

There is no start fee and no per-row dataset fee.

What it does not do

Not every company has an LEI. Roughly 3.4 million do, concentrated in businesses that trade securities or derivatives. A small local company usually does not, and that is what not_found means. For general company data, use a national register instead.

legal_form is an ELF code, not a name. GLEIF publishes the code — B5PM, DKUW — and does not include the readable form in the record. Resolving it requires the separate ELF code list, which this Actor does not carry.

A name is not a unique key. Rows found by name return the best match rather than choosing between several candidates. matched_by states how each row was found, and name matches deserve a human check before they are acted on.

An LEI can outlive the company. A dissolved or merged entity keeps its code. entity_status, registration_status and successor_lei are the fields that say so, and issues flags entity_not_active and superseded_by_successor.

Notes

Send codes rather than names where available. Codes are exact and are resolved ten at a time in a single request; names are searched individually.

Leave includeRelationships off unless the ownership tree is needed. It triples the number of requests and most records have no parent to report.

Check issues before treating a record as current. The company may still hold an LEI while no longer being the company you expect.

GLEIF republishes daily. Every run queries the live API and stamps retrieved_at on each row.

Support

Open the Issues tab with the specific LEI or name and the matched_by and issues values from the row.

Licence and attribution

Data from the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), published under CC0 1.0 as open data. Queried live on every run; nothing is stored or redistributed.