Luxembourg Company & Group Structure Directory
Company register search for 324,858 Luxembourg companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Luxembourg shareholder and beneficial ownership data lives in two registers: the Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés (RCS, Trade and Companies Register) and the Registre des Bénéficiaires Effectifs (RBE, Register of Beneficial Owners), created under the Law of 13 January 2019. Luxembourg suspended open access after the 2022 CJEU ruling and now runs three tiers, from national authorities to legitimate-interest requesters, against a 25% ownership or voting-rights threshold. Where no natural person clears that threshold, the senior managing official is filed instead, which itself flags enhanced due diligence. RCS filings verify directors and capital directly; RBE data has been cross-checked against the national population register since January 2026, but corporate shareholding layered across borders into jurisdictions like the Netherlands or Jersey still requires resolution outside the register itself.
Luxembourg beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Luxembourg
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Luxembourg, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Luxembourg
Luxembourg’s central company register, the RCS (Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés), is administered by Luxembourg Business Registers (LBR), a groupement d’intérêt économique combining the Luxembourg State, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Trades, overseeing more than 168,400 registered entities as of December 31, 2025. LBR also runs RESA (the electronic publications platform, since 2016), the RBE (Register of Beneficial Owners, since 2019), and Reginsol (the Insolvency Register, since 2023), all searchable at lbr.lu. On January 28, 2026, the Justice Minister announced a multi-layered data-quality and compliance initiative — automated entry-point checks, cross-database verification, and a graduated sanctions ladder running from fee increases through administrative deregistration — with RBE compliance reportedly reaching 94.6% by the end of 2025.
Luxembourg holds a uniquely central place in the EU’s beneficial-ownership access story: Luxembourg Business Registers was the actual named defendant in the Court of Justice of the EU’s November 22, 2022 ruling that invalidated unrestricted public UBO access, and Luxembourg suspended public RBE access that same day, restoring it weeks later, in December 2022, only for AML-obliged professionals and press with a legitimate journalistic interest. Luxembourg went on to formally transpose the EU’s 6th AML Directive access-rules deadline of July 10, 2025 through its Law of January 23, 2025, and is notably not among the 11 EU member states the European Commission opened infringement proceedings against in September 2025 for incomplete transposition notification. The new framework recognizes five access categories, including potential business counterparties conducting legitimate due diligence; the remaining 6AMLD provisions on register data-quality and verification are due for transposition by July 10, 2026.
Luxembourg 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
2023 figures from the European Commission’s SME Performance Review (Luxembourg Country Fact Sheet 2024, non-financial business economy): of roughly 40,047 enterprises, 87.9% were micro (0–9 employees), 9.6% small (10–49), 2.0% medium (50–249), and 0.5% large (250+) — a complete, clean size-class breakdown. Source: European Commission, SME Performance Review — Luxembourg Country Fact Sheet 2024 (2023 data).
Foreign-controlled entities
Foreign-controlled enterprises represented 28% of all market-producer enterprises in Luxembourg in 2023 — the highest entity-count share of any EU country — and accounted for 45% of jobs in the business economy, also the EU’s highest employment share; both figures are from Eurostat’s inward FATS series. This mirrors Luxembourg’s FDI stock, which reached USD 1.18 trillion at the end of 2023 — more than 14 times national GDP, with financial and insurance activities attracting over four-fifths of the total. UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2025 explicitly flags that Luxembourg’s FDI figures are heavily distorted by “conduit” financial flows — pass-through capital moving through Luxembourg-domiciled holding and financing vehicles rather than underlying real economic activity — so headline FDI totals should not be read as describing Luxembourg’s domestic economy directly, even though the entity-count and employment shares above are comparatively reliable, real measures of just how foreign-controlled Luxembourg’s actual business population is.
Who uses Luxembourg ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Luxembourg 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 80,390 Luxembourg entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many Luxembourg companies are in Zavia's database?
Zavia holds 324,858 company records for Luxembourg, of which 163,246 (50%) are currently active on the register.
Who owns companies in Luxembourg, and is that information public?
Luxembourg shareholder and beneficial ownership data lives in two registers: the Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés (RCS, Trade and Companies Register) and the Registre des Bénéficiaires Effectifs (RBE, Register of Beneficial Owners), created under the Law of 13 January 2019. Luxembourg suspended open access after the 2022 CJEU ruling and now runs three tiers, from national authorities to legitimate-interest requesters, against a 25% ownership or voting-rights threshold. Where no natural person clears that threshold, the senior managing official is filed instead, which itself flags enhanced due diligence. RCS filings verify directors and capital directly; RBE data has been cross-checked against the national population register since January 2026, but corporate shareholding layered across borders into jurisdictions like the Netherlands or Jersey still requires resolution outside the register itself.
Can I see a Luxembourg company's shareholders and corporate structure on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 44 shareholder records for Luxembourg companies, with 39,633 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Can I find the directors of a Luxembourg company on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 763 officer and director records for Luxembourg companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Can I look up a Luxembourg company's VAT number on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 94 VAT records for Luxembourg companies, linked to the same registered entity as its company profile.
Can I access financial statements for Luxembourg companies on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 80,390 digitized financial reports for Luxembourg companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
What document shows who owns shares in a Luxembourg company?
Share ownership in Luxembourg is disclosed through the RCS filing, filed under Article 12bis of the amended law of 19 December 2002.
Does Zavia offer an API for Luxembourg company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Luxembourg, 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 Luxembourg?
Zavia's Luxembourg 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.