---
id: "legal_form"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["companies", "legal"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 70
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/legal_form"
---

# Legal form of an organization (`legal_form`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Legal form of a company or other organization written as a name or an abbreviation, in the language of the country of registration: SpA or EIRL in Chile, GmbH in Germany, Uždaroji akcinė bendrovė (UAB) in Lithuania, ΝΠΔΔ (public law entity) in Greece. Registers often keep it in a column next to the name. The ISO 20275 code of a legal form is elf_code.

- Parent datatype: `category`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Companies/business/organizations (companies), Legal and compliance (legal)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Examples

- `SpA` — Chilean sociedad por acciones
- `EIRL` — Chilean sole proprietorship with limited liability
- `Uždaroji akcinė bendrovė` — Lithuanian private limited company
- `ΝΠΔΔ` — Greek legal entity under public law
- `GmbH`
- `Mutual Fund` — GLEIF, other legal form
- `K09K` (invalid example) — ISO 20275 code: elf_code

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 1 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `legalformbyfield` (field, `common/orgs.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Translations

- ru: Организационно-правовая форма
- de: Rechtsform
- es: Forma jurídica

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legal_entity_types_by_country>

## Quality

Score 70/100. Missing: regexp, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...).

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/legal_form.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/companies/legal_form.yaml>