Every legal form in Cyprus, each with its abbreviation, the kind of entity it is, liability and typical use where they are well established, and the values the Prometiam company object returns.
This guide lists the 5 legal forms the Prometiam dictionary knows for Cyprus: what each is called, how it is abbreviated, what kind of entity it is and how it appears in the company object. Use it to read the legal_form of a company registered in Cyprus, or to decode a form you meet in a contract or on an invoice. It is a general reference, not legal advice.
Coverage and limits for Cyprus: company records only (no officers, no registry-compliance signal, no activity code, no share capital, no VAT number, no insolvency notices); companies and overseas companies only, trade names and partnerships are never served. Contains data from the Department of the Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property (DRCOR), Republic of Cyprus, via data.gov.cy, CC BY 4.0.
Every company object carries four legal-form fields: legal_form (the standard abbreviation, null when the form is not mapped), legal_form_family (the cross-country family, so a private limited company compares across countries), local_legal_form (the register’s own value or code as stored) and local_legal_form_name (the register’s name for it, where it publishes one). Each form below shows the values the API returns for it.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer rk_live_..." \ "https://api.prometiam.com/functions/v1/risk-api/companies/search?country=CY&name=<company name>" # each result carries, for example: # "legal_form": "Ltd" # "legal_form_family": "private_limited_company"
Private limited company: a company with its own legal personality whose owners are, as a rule, not personally liable for its debts and whose shares are not offered to the public.
Ltdlegal_form Ltd, legal_form_family private_limited_company, local_legal_form C-PRIVATElegal_form Company limited by guarantee with share capital, legal_form_family private_limited_company, local_legal_form C-GUARANTEElegal_form Company limited by guarantee without share capital, legal_form_family private_limited_company, local_legal_form C-GUARANTEE-NSCPublic limited company (joint-stock company): a company with its own legal personality and share capital whose owners are, as a rule, not personally liable; the family of forms that can usually raise money from the public.
PLClegal_form PLC, legal_form_family public_limited_company, local_legal_form C-PUBLICBranch of a foreign company: an establishment or registration of a company incorporated abroad.
legal_form Overseas company (registered branch of a foreign company), legal_form_family branch_of_foreign_company, local_legal_form O-OVERSEASSee the Cyprus company data API guide for the register behind these records and the free Registration number lookup to try an identifier. For the register states that go with these forms, read company status in Cyprus. All countries: company legal forms.
Search by name or identifier and read legal_form, legal_form_family and local_legal_form on every result, or filter a bulk list by family.
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