Finland Company & Owner Directory
Company register search for 1.7M+ Finland companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Finland company register data sits with the PRH (Patentti- ja rekisterihallitus, Finnish Patent and Registration Office), whose Trade Register also holds beneficial-owner filings under the Act on Money Laundering. Unlike most PRH trade register data, it's restricted to authorities and AML-obliged entities with a demonstrated valid purpose, at a 25% threshold using a look-through test for indirect ownership above 50% through an intermediary. Companies listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange's primary market, housing companies, foundations, and sole traders (toiminimi) are exempt from UBO filing. PRH verifies filed UBO data directly, available to foreign compliance teams as a paid English-language extract; where senior management is filed as the mandatory fallback because no natural person clears 25%, the true controlling owner still isn't visible from the register and requires tracing through parent-entity registries instead.
Finland beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Finland
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Finland, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Finland
Finland’s Beneficial Ownership Register (Edunsaajarekisteri), held by PRH (the Finnish Patent and Registration Office) alongside the Trade Register, is separate from the public Trade Register extract and sits behind a legitimate-interest access wall under Finland’s implementation of the EU’s anti-money-laundering directives — general access requires a contract with PRH, not an open search. The underlying filing obligation has existed since summer 2020, but as of June 2026 more than 22,000 limited companies and co-operatives still had not filed their beneficial-owner details — a real, quantifiable compliance gap worth factoring into how much weight to put on a ‘clean’ search result.
Finland’s Business Register, covering roughly 480,233 companies in 2024 (excluding agriculture, forestry and fishing), is dominated by the smallest size class: 96% (460,992) are micro enterprises with fewer than 10 employees, with small (3.2%, 15,492), medium (0.5%, 3,073) and large (0.1%, 676) enterprises accounting for the rest. Foreign-owned enterprises are a small but disproportionately significant slice: 5,685 foreign enterprises operated in Finland in 2024 — about 1% of all enterprises — yet they employed 334,330 people, 16% of the private-sector workforce, and generated close to a quarter of total enterprise turnover, with Sweden, the US, Germany, Jersey and Denmark the largest sources by employment.
Finland company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Companies by industry
NACE section level, live from official registries. Each bar links through to its own directory.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
Share of roughly 480,233 Finnish companies in 2024 (excluding agriculture, forestry and fishing) by employee size class: 460,992 micro, 15,492 small, 3,073 medium, 676 large. Source: Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskus), Business Register 2024.
Foreign-controlled entities
5,685 foreign enterprises operated in Finland in 2024 — about 1% of all enterprises — yet they employed 334,330 people (16% of the private-sector workforce) and generated close to a quarter of total enterprise turnover. Sweden, the US, Germany, Jersey and Denmark were the largest sources by employment.
Who uses Finland ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Finland 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
Only 191 Finland entities have digitized accounts on file, 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 Finland companies — via API or a bulk data feed.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Zavia's company data coverage for Finland?
Zavia holds 1.7M+ company records for Finland, of which 1.1M+ (67%) are currently active on the register.
How does Finland handle UBO and beneficial ownership disclosure?
Finland company register data sits with the PRH (Patentti- ja rekisterihallitus, Finnish Patent and Registration Office), whose Trade Register also holds beneficial-owner filings under the Act on Money Laundering. Unlike most PRH trade register data, it's restricted to authorities and AML-obliged entities with a demonstrated valid purpose, at a 25% threshold using a look-through test for indirect ownership above 50% through an intermediary. Companies listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange's primary market, housing companies, foundations, and sole traders (toiminimi) are exempt from UBO filing. PRH verifies filed UBO data directly, available to foreign compliance teams as a paid English-language extract; where senior management is filed as the mandatory fallback because no natural person clears 25%, the true controlling owner still isn't visible from the register and requires tracing through parent-entity registries instead.
Does Zavia track Finland company ownership chains and parent-subsidiary links?
Yes. Zavia holds 72 shareholder records for Finland companies, with 115,707 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Does Zavia list company officers for Finland?
Yes. Zavia holds 681,168 officer and director records for Finland companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Is VAT data included for Finland companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 617,922 VAT records for Finland companies, linked to the same registered entity as its company profile.
Does Zavia include digitized financial reports for Finland?
Yes. Zavia holds 191 digitized financial reports for Finland companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Where is shareholder information filed in Finland?
Share ownership in Finland is held as the osakasluettelo (shareholder register), maintained under Chapter 3 of the Companies Act (osakeyhtiölaki) rather than filed as a public register.
How can I query Finland company records programmatically?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Finland, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Where can I learn more about Finland's company register?
Zavia's Finland 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.