Which companies have an LEI?

Entities that trade in financial markets or fall under reporting regimes that require one. Large and regulated companies usually have one; most small businesses do not.

How do I find an LEI if I only have a name?

Use LEI Lookup search, which is a separate source in the catalog, and take the code from there into this one.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a lookup cost?

5 points per result, which is $5 per 1,000, and only successful lookups are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance, so there is no separate per-country contract.

Corporate registry

LEI Lookup API — Legal Entity Identifier Data

The LEI is the one company identifier that means the same thing everywhere. Twenty characters, issued under a global system, pointing at exactly one legal entity in any jurisdiction — which is precisely what national registration numbers do not do.

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You send: A 20-character LEI code
You get back: Registration details, addresses, status, renewal date and parent links
Coverage: Worldwide — entities on the global LEI system.
Price: 5 pts — $5 per 1,000; Charged only when the record resolves. A lookup that finds nothing is not billed.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
the global LEI system directly	Query the global index and map its record shape yourself	Usually free, sometimes per-document	A different interface, language and data shape for every country you add
Collecting it yourself	Build and host a crawler per register, then keep each one alive	Infrastructure and maintenance	Registers change their pages without warning, and nobody is on the hook when yours breaks
NeuralVerge	One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog	$5 per 1,000, misses not billed	Covers Worldwide — other countries are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field the response returns.

Field	Type	Description
`lei`	string	The 20-character identifier.
`legal_name`	string	Registered legal name of the entity.
`legal_address`	object	Registered legal address.
`headquarters_address`	object	Headquarters address, where it differs.
`registration_authority`	object	The national authority the entity is registered with.
`legal_jurisdiction`	string	Jurisdiction the entity is formed under.
`entity_category`	string	Category assigned to the entity.
`entity_status`	string	Whether the entity itself is active.
`initial_registration_date`	string	When the identifier was first issued.
`last_update_date`	string	When the record was last updated.
`next_renewal_date`	string	When the registration must next be renewed — a lapsed record is a signal.
`relationships`	array	Parent relationships, each with the parent's identifier and name.

One response envelope

Every source answers in the same shape: a session id, a readable human summary, a structured machine object and the points the call consumed. Learn it once and it holds across every source in the catalog.

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

A JSON schema passed as extract_schema_json pins the response shape, which is why one endpoint serves every register in the catalog — only the URL and the schema change. The Get API Code button in the app hands you the complete command with the schema already filled in.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-extract \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://lei.info/000000000000000000",
    "instructions": "Extract data from the global LEI system",
    "settings": {
      "country_code": "us",
      "extract_schema_json": "{ ... }"
    }
  }'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Cross-border entity resolution

Use one identifier instead of reconciling a different number per country.

Counterparty reference data

Anchor a counterparty record to an identifier that regulators recognise.

Deduplicating a global account list

Collapse the same legal entity recorded under several local names.

Reporting obligations

Attach the identifier that financial reporting regimes ask for.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Worldwide — entities on the global LEI system.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the register as it stands when you ask.

Handling

the global LEI system is a public register. Every response carries the source URL it was read from and a session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Only entities that have obtained an LEI resolve here, and most small companies have not.
—An identifier can lapse. The record carries both the entity status and the next renewal date, and a lapsed registration is itself a signal.
—It identifies the legal entity, not its trading names or brands.

FAQ

Questions, answered

A 20-character alphanumeric code that identifies one legal entity globally, issued under an international system originally set up so regulators could see who was on each side of a financial transaction.

Related sources

LEI Lookup search

Find the identifier when you only have a name.

All corporate registries

Company registers across Europe, plus global LEI lookup.

Companies House company

The UK national register.

Try lei lookup company on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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