Guernsey Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Guernsey company register data is held by the Guernsey Registry, supervised by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) under the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008, with free basic name and number searches and paid access to fuller documents. Beneficial ownership sits on a separate, non-public register under the Beneficial Ownership of Legal Persons (Guernsey) Law, 2017, at a threshold above 25% of shares or voting and appointment rights. Access is restricted to the GFSC, Guernsey law enforcement, and foreign financial intelligence units through information-exchange agreements.
Guernsey beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Guernsey
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Guernsey
Guernsey’s economy is built overwhelmingly around finance: the sector generated 37% of GDP (£1,304 million) on its own in 2023, rising to 44% (£1,524 million) once associated professional services — law, accountancy, actuarial and tax work, company secretarial services — are included, per the States of Guernsey’s Annual GVA and GDP Bulletin. Finance and legal roles together account for 23% of all jobs on the island.
That dominance has come with slow recent growth: financial and professional services expanded just 0.1% a year on average in real terms since 2017, prompting the States of Guernsey to publish a Finance Sector Growth Strategy 2035 in early 2026 targeting roughly 3% annual real growth and £25 million in additional public revenue by 2030. Even so, the sector saw a genuinely rare event in 2025: the Guernsey Financial Services Commission approved Bank Aston as the island’s first new locally licensed bank in almost 30 years, since its last home-grown bank stopped trading in 1996.
Beyond finance, Guernsey’s formal business register held 18,951 limited companies as of the second quarter of 2026, alongside 3,251 limited partnerships, 146 LLPs and 125 foundations, per the Guernsey Registry’s own quarterly statistics. The island’s population stood at an estimated 64,477 in 2025, and 2025 was a strong year for both property (£811 million changing hands, the third-highest annual total since 2000) and tourism (282,028 visitors, contributing an estimated £151 million to the economy).
Guernsey’s traditional industries have shrunk dramatically by comparison: greenhouse tomato-growing, which reportedly made up as much as 49% of the island’s GNP in the late 1940s, has all but disappeared amid Dutch competition and the 1973 oil crisis, and the dairy sector has consolidated from roughly 400 small farms in the 1950s to just 11 today. The island now imports more than 90% of its electricity from Europe via a subsea cable network, with a further roughly £100 million direct-to-France cable under consideration as of late 2025 to improve energy security.
Guernsey company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
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
Entities on the Guernsey Registry, Q2 2026. Source: Guernsey Registry, Quarterly Register Statistics 2026.
Who uses Guernsey ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Guernsey 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 Guernsey companies — via API or a bulk data feed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I look up the beneficial owner of a Guernsey company?
Guernsey company register data is held by the Guernsey Registry, supervised by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) under the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008, with free basic name and number searches and paid access to fuller documents. Beneficial ownership sits on a separate, non-public register under the Beneficial Ownership of Legal Persons (Guernsey) Law, 2017, at a threshold above 25% of shares or voting and appointment rights. Access is restricted to the GFSC, Guernsey law enforcement, and foreign financial intelligence units through information-exchange agreements.
Is there a bulk or API option for Guernsey company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Guernsey, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Does Zavia have a deeper guide on Guernsey company ownership?
Zavia's Guernsey 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.