LEI Lookup (GLEIF): Company Search by Name, LEI, ISIN or BIC

Look up Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) in the official GLEIF registry, the global source used by banks, regulators and KYC teams. Search by LEI, company name (with an optional country), ISIN or BIC, and get the legal name, entity and LEI status, legal form, legal and headquarters addresses, the business-registry number, the next renewal date and the direct and ultimate parent companies.

Built for KYC/AML, onboarding, procurement and financial-data teams, and for AI agents that need a reliable company identity.

What can LEI Lookup do?

• Four ways to search. Paste LEIs, company names, ISINs or BICs and the type is detected automatically. Use name:, lei:, isin: or bic: to force it.
• Bulk LEI checks. LEIs are looked up 100 per request, so thousands finish quickly.
• Smart name matching. Legal suffixes are normalized (AG = Aktiengesellschaft, Ltd = Limited), other and transliterated names are searched too (so "Toyota Motor Corporation" finds トヨタ自動車株式会社), and each match gets a 0-100 matchScore.
• Corporate ownership. The direct and ultimate accounting parents, as reported to GLEIF.
• Free check-digit validation. Bad LEI or ISIN check digits are caught locally and returned as free invalid_format rows. Misses are free not_found rows.

What data does it return?

Field	Example
lei, legalName, otherNames	W38RGI023J3WT1HWRP32, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
entityStatus, registrationStatus	ACTIVE, ISSUED (LAPSED = not renewed)
legalForm, legalFormCode, jurisdiction	Aktiengesellschaft, 6QQB, DE
legalAddressText, headquartersAddressText	Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 1, 80333 München, DE-BY, DE
registrationAuthorityId, registeredAs	RA000304, HRB 6684
initialRegistrationDate, nextRenewalDate	2012-06-06…, 2027-10-25…
directParent, ultimateParent	{lei, legalName, country, entityStatus}
bic, managingLou, corroborationLevel, gleifUrl	…
matchScore, matchRank	100, 1 (name searches)

How much does it cost?

You pay per LEI record returned (found):

Plan	Per 1,000 records
Free	$2.00
Bronze	$1.70
Silver	$1.40
Gold	$1.10

not_found, invalid_format and outage rows are free. There is also a tiny Apify start fee of $0.00005 per run. With maxMatchesPerName above 1, each returned match counts as a record.

Input example

{
  "queries": ["HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394", "Siemens AG | DE", "US0378331005", "DEUTDEFFXXX"],
  "includeParents": true
}

Output example

{"query": "APPLE DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED", "status": "found", "lei": "54930027SQL2KPSDBM58",
 "legalName": "APPLE DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED", "country": "IE", "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
 "registrationStatus": "ISSUED", "legalForm": "Private Company Limited by Shares",
 "directParent": {"lei": "549300G81RQKP7XW2N18", "legalName": "APPLE OPERATIONS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED", "country": "IE"},
 "ultimateParent": {"lei": "HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394", "legalName": "Apple Inc.", "country": "US"}}

{"query": "HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT395", "queryType": "lei", "status": "invalid_format", "error": "Not a valid LEI: 20 characters with a mod-97 check digit. Not sent."}

Use cases

• KYC and counterparty onboarding: confirm a legal entity, its status and its ultimate parent.
• Regulatory reporting (EMIR, MiFID II, SFTR): check that counterparties' LEIs are ISSUED and not LAPSED before you report.
• Data enrichment: add LEI, registry number and parent company to a CRM or supplier list.
• Securities and banking data: map ISINs or BICs to the issuing legal entity.

Use with AI agents (MCP, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, n8n)

AI agents can run this Actor through the Apify MCP server:

{"mcpServers":{"apify":{"url":"https://mcp.apify.com?tools=swillz/lei-lookup"}}}

Or run it locally with npx -y @apify/actors-mcp-server --tools swillz/lei-lookup and APIFY_TOKEN set.

Example prompts:

• "What is the LEI of Siemens AG, and is it still current?"
• "Who is the ultimate parent of LEI 54930027SQL2KPSDBM58?"
• "Find the LEIs for the companies in this list."

Minimal input: {"queries": ["Siemens AG | DE"]}. To cap the cost, pass maxTotalChargeUsd. Queries left unrun come back as free skipped_charge_limit rows.

Integrations and API

Run it from the Apify API, the clients, Make, Zapier or n8n. To chain it, pass {"datasetId": "...", "queryField": "companyName", "countryField": "country"}. The OUTPUT record holds a run summary (byStatus, zeroResultsReason, nextSteps).

FAQ

Is this the official source? Yes. Every answer comes live from the GLEIF API, which publishes the LEI golden copy. Nothing is cached between runs.

Why is legalName in Japanese, Chinese or Cyrillic? GLEIF stores the legal name in its original script. The English or transliterated name is in otherNames, and name searches match it.

Why is there no parent? Many entities report an exception (for example, natural-person owners or no consolidating parent). Then directParent and ultimateParent are null.

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• Sanctions Screener: screen company and person names against official OFAC, UN, EU and UK sanctions lists with fuzzy matching.

Popular workflows

• B2B customer onboarding (KYB): validate the VAT number with EU VAT Number Validator (VIES) and the EORI with EORI Number Validator, confirm the legal entity with this Actor, and screen the name with Sanctions Screener.

Source code: https://github.com/williamjin02/apify-actors/tree/main/actors/lei-lookup