Every legal form in Latvia, 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 Latvia: 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 Latvia, 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 Latvia: company records only (no officers, no registry-compliance signal, no activity code, no insolvency notices); individual merchants and other natural persons are never served. Contains data from the Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia and the State Revenue Service (CC0).
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=LV&name=<company name>" # each result carries, for example: # "legal_form": "SIA" # "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.
SIAlegal_form SIA, legal_form_family private_limited_company, local_legal_form SIAPublic 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.
ASlegal_form AS, legal_form_family public_limited_company, local_legal_form ASSElegal_form SE, legal_form_family public_limited_company, local_legal_form SEGeneral partnership: the owners run the business together and, as a rule, answer personally for its debts.
PSlegal_form PS, legal_form_family general_partnership, local_legal_form PSLimited partnership: at least one partner answers without limit for the debts, the others only up to what they contributed.
KSlegal_form KS, legal_form_family limited_partnership, local_legal_form KSSee the Latvia 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 Latvia. 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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