GLEIF LEI Lookup — Legal Entity Identifier & Company Legal Data

Look up Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) and registered company legal data from the official GLEIF database — by company name or by LEI code. Get the legal name, legal form, jurisdiction, registered and headquarters addresses, registration status and renewal dates, and BIC codes. Built for KYB, AML/compliance, onboarding, and entity resolution. No API key. You only pay for records returned.

Keywords: LEI lookup, GLEIF API, legal entity identifier, KYB, know your business, AML compliance, entity resolution, company verification, BIC to LEI, counterparty data.

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Why this actor

The LEI is the global standard for identifying legal entities in financial transactions — mandatory for reporting under MiFID II, EMIR, Dodd-Frank and more. GLEIF publishes the full reference database openly, but its API returns JSON:API with deeply nested entity and registration objects. This actor flattens it into one clean record per entity:

• Search by name or LEI — resolve a company name to its LEI(s), or look up a known LEI directly.
• Full legal identity — legal name, prior names, legal form, jurisdiction, category, and operating status.
• Addresses — both the registered legal address and the headquarters address.
• Registration lifecycle — registration status, initial registration date, last update, and next renewal date (so you can spot lapsed LEIs).
• BIC codes — bank identifier codes mapped to the entity, where available.
• No API key — built on the open GLEIF API.

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What you can build with it

• KYB / onboarding — resolve a counterparty's name to its authoritative LEI and capture its registered legal identity and address.
• AML / compliance — verify that a legal entity exists, is ACTIVE, and has a current (not lapsed) LEI registration.
• Entity resolution — deduplicate and canonicalize company records across a messy customer or vendor master using LEI as the key.
• Regulatory reporting — enrich transaction records with valid LEIs for MiFID II / EMIR / Dodd-Frank reporting.
• Renewal monitoring — flag counterparties whose LEI is approaching or past its next_renewal_date.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
legalNames	string[]	["Apple Inc."]	Company names to resolve to LEI records.
leis	string[]	—	Exact 20-character LEI codes to look up directly.
matchesPerName	integer	5	Max matching records to return per name searched.

Example input

{
  "legalNames": ["Siemens AG", "Tesla, Inc."],
  "leis": ["HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394"],
  "matchesPerName": 3
}

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Output

Each entity is one dataset record:

{
  "lei": "HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394",
  "legal_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "other_names": ["Apple Computer, Inc."],
  "legal_form_code": "H1UM",
  "category": "GENERAL",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "jurisdiction": "US-CA",
  "legal_address": "C/O C T Corporation System, 330 N. Brand Blvd, Suite 700, Glendale, US-CA, US, 91203",
  "legal_country": "US",
  "hq_address": "One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, US-CA, US, 95014",
  "hq_country": "US",
  "registration_status": "ISSUED",
  "initial_registration_date": "2012-06-06",
  "last_update_date": "2026-03-03",
  "next_renewal_date": "2027-03-08",
  "managing_lou": "5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12",
  "bic": ["APLEUS66XXX"],
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-11T13:00:00.000Z"
}

Names with no match return a {"status": "no_match"} record; unknown LEIs return {"status": "not_found"} — neither is charged. A final {"_type": "summary"} record reports counts.

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Pricing

Your first 25 records are free — every Apify account, no card, no trial clock. After that it is a flat $0.005 per LEI record.

• First 25 records free per account (lifetime), then $0.005/record
• Not-found / no-match results are never charged
• No monthly minimum, no rental
• A run resolving 1,000 entities costs $5.00

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FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. GLEIF's reference database is open.

What is an LEI? A 20-character ISO 17442 code that uniquely identifies a legal entity in financial markets — the global standard for counterparty identification.

Can I search by name? Yes — pass legalNames and the actor returns the best-matching LEI records for each.

How do I detect a lapsed LEI? Check registration_status and next_renewal_date — a LAPSED status or a past renewal date means the entity hasn't kept its LEI current.

Does it include addresses? Yes — both the registered legal address and the headquarters address.

Use in Claude, ChatGPT & any MCP agent

This actor is also a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server tool — call it directly from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP-compatible AI agent. The agent only pays for results delivered (same pay-per-result model).

• Per-actor MCP endpoint: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/gleif-lei-lookup
• Full Mine Works MCP server (all tools): https://the-mine-works-mcp.hatchable.site/api/mcp

// Call this actor as a tool via apify-client (Node)
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('themineworks/gleif-lei-lookup').call({ /* input from the table above */ });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);