Natural personElena Martin
35%Ownership answers should be traceable—not simply asserted.
Zavia helps teams move from a legal entity to its shareholders, ultimate owners, controllers and wider group structure while preserving the evidence, calculations and unresolved gaps behind every conclusion.
Built for teams that need to understand who sits behind a company and defend how they reached that conclusion.
ZAVIA / EVIDENCE PATHIllustrative
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Selected legal entity · GBNorthstar Trading Ltd
Resolved70% direct
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Corporate shareholder · NLAlder Holdings B.V.
Next layerNatural personMarcus Reed
35%Registry factReviewed evidenceCalculationGap state
Built around the evidenceCompany-led researchSource identity retainedCalculations separatedGaps remain visible
Why Zavia exists
Company ownership rarely sits in one record.
A shareholder may be another company, incorporated in another jurisdiction, with further entities and people behind it. Analysts are left joining registry records, filings and calculations by hand—and the final answer can lose the evidence that produced it.
Zavia is designed to keep the selected company, every supported ownership layer and the resulting conclusion in one reviewable path.
Three questions
Every investigation starts with the same discipline.
The goal is not a longer list of names. It is a result a reviewer can reconstruct.
Which legal entity is this?
Resolve the registered company and jurisdiction before opening an ownership report.
Who ultimately owns or controls it?
Continue through supported corporate shareholders instead of stopping at the first company in the chain.
What supports the conclusion?
Retain each relationship, source identity, available date, percentage, calculation and unresolved branch.
How Zavia works
From a company name to a reviewable ownership conclusion.
Resolve
Match a legal name or supported identifier to the correct company and jurisdiction.
Selected legal entity
Retrieve
Bring available registry identity, shareholder and group records into one evidence model.
Source-linked records
Traverse
Open each supported corporate shareholder as another ownership layer and calculate effective interests separately.
Ordered ownership paths
Explain
State who was reached, how each result was derived and exactly where the available evidence ends.
Reviewable conclusion
Four evidence states
One answer should never blend four different kinds of certainty.
The evidence model keeps source-reported facts, reviewed public material, derived calculations and unresolved information distinct in every delivery channel.
Government registry data
Facts and relationships from a named official registry, with available record or retrieval context.
Verified public-source evidence
Reviewed public material associated with the resolved company and kept separate from registry facts.
Zavia calculation
A derived ownership interest shown with the entity path and reproducible formula used.
Unresolved or conflicting
Missing, inconsistent or unsupported branches preserved for review instead of being completed by assumption.
Frequently asked questions
Clear answers and explicit boundaries.
Need to evaluate a specific case or requirement? Contact Zavia.
Start with a known company
Test the ownership path against a case your team understands.
Review how Zavia resolves the entity, follows each supported branch and explains the result against evidence your team can evaluate.