East Timor Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
East Timor (Timor-Leste) company register data is held by SERVE, I.P. (Serviço de Registo e Verificação Empresarial), under the Companies Act (Law No. 10/2017) and its implementing Decree-Law No. 16/2017. Only in a limited sense: SERVE publishes downloadable PDF lists by entity type rather than an interactive search tool. No operational one: the country has acknowledged the international FATF standard requiring beneficial-ownership transparency, but no functioning centralized disclosure system has been established, so beneficial-owner information has to be obtained directly from the company itself.
East Timor beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in East Timor
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Who uses East Timor ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a East Timor counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Filed accounts cover a limited share of the register in most jurisdictions, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
Get complete shareholder and officer records, ultimate beneficial owner resolution, and ongoing ownership monitoring for East Timor companies — via API or a bulk data feed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who owns companies in East Timor, and is that information public?
East Timor (Timor-Leste) company register data is held by SERVE, I.P. (Serviço de Registo e Verificação Empresarial), under the Companies Act (Law No. 10/2017) and its implementing Decree-Law No. 16/2017. Only in a limited sense: SERVE publishes downloadable PDF lists by entity type rather than an interactive search tool. No operational one: the country has acknowledged the international FATF standard requiring beneficial-ownership transparency, but no functioning centralized disclosure system has been established, so beneficial-owner information has to be obtained directly from the company itself.
Does Zavia offer an API for East Timor company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including East Timor, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Is there a guide to verifying beneficial ownership in East Timor?
Zavia's East Timor beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.