What information can I use to search for a company?

You can search using a company name, registration number, VAT number, ticker or LEI. Identifier availability varies by jurisdiction.

What happens when several companies have the same name?

Zavia shows the matching legal entities with their country, registration number, address and status so you can select the correct company.

Can Zavia identify a company’s ultimate beneficial owner?

Zavia follows supported direct and indirect ownership paths until relevant individuals are reached or the available evidence ends.

Where does the ownership information come from?

Government registry records are labelled with their source and date. Reviewed public evidence and Zavia calculations are presented separately.

What if the ownership structure cannot be completed?

The missing or conflicting branch is marked unresolved. Zavia does not replace unavailable evidence with an assumed owner.

Can search results be used through an API or AI agent?

Subject to agreed access, permissions and data rights, structured entities, relationships, sources, calculations and gaps can be delivered through the API or MCP.

Start with the right company.

Search by company name, registration number or VAT number. Confirm the legal entity using its country, status and registered address, then continue to shareholders and UBO discovery.

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Illustrative search workspace

Company searchIllustrative · fictional data

Asteron TradingUnited KingdomSearch

3 matching legal entitiesSelect the correct company

United Kingdom · 08421763Asteron Trading Ltd14 King Street, London

Active

United Kingdom · 11849021Asteron Trading Group Ltd22 Bishopsgate, London

Active

United Kingdom · 04190812Asteron Trading Services Ltd8 Harbour Road, Bristol

Dissolved

Evidence stays attachedOfficial registry factsVisible ownership pathsReproducible calculationsExplicit unresolved gaps

The question that matters

Which legal entity are you looking for?

Similar company names can refer to different businesses. Compare registration numbers, jurisdictions, addresses and status before selecting the company. That same company record is the starting point for shareholder and UBO analysis.

Illustrative conclusion

Asteron Trading Ltd is the active UK company with registration number 08421763 and registered address 14 King Street, London. Select this entity before reviewing its direct shareholders or tracing ultimate beneficial owners.

Built for investigation

Move from a company name to a conclusion you can explain.

Each step preserves the legal entities, relationships and evidence that produced the result.

Match the correct legal entity

Search by company name, registration number, VAT number, ticker or LEI in one field. When several companies match, Zavia shows all plausible entities for review.

Country and jurisdiction
Registration number and status
Address and incorporation details

Follow supported paths toward people

Direct shareholders are only the first layer. Supported corporate owners become new paths that Zavia follows through holding companies and parent entities.

Direct and indirect interests
Cross-border ownership paths
Natural persons and controllers

Keep the evidence attached

Every entity, relationship and percentage retains its source type, record date and place in the ownership path.

Registry facts remain distinct
Calculations are reproducible
Missing branches stay unresolved

Evidence architecture

One answer. Four clearly different evidence states.

Search results are useful only when a reviewer can see what was recorded, what was calculated and where the available evidence ends.

Government registry

The legal entity, relationship, source and record date as reported by an official registry.

Reviewed public evidence

Relevant public disclosures are reviewed and labelled separately from official registry facts.

Zavia calculation

Indirect interests are calculated from supported paths, with the formula available to reproduce.

Unresolved

Missing, conflicting or incomplete ownership stays visible instead of being replaced by a guess.

Where it fits

Ownership intelligence for decisions that cannot rely on a black box.

Customer onboarding

Confirm the company and understand its ownership before approval.

Corporate research

Move from one legal entity to the full ownership picture.

Supplier due diligence

See the people and companies behind a counterparty.

AI grounding

Give agents the same sourced ownership record available to analysts.

Use the same evidence everywhere

For analysts, systems, agents and data platforms.

Depending on the agreed implementation, company search can be delivered in the web platform, through the Ownership and UBO API, to authorized agents through MCP, in bulk data or as a monitored change workflow.

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Grounded response“Who ultimately owns this supplier?”

Return entities, relationships, ownership paths, source dates, calculations and explicit gaps—not an unsupported summary.

Human-readable conclusion
Machine-readable provenance
No guessed missing owner

Frequently asked questions

What teams ask about company search.

Need to discuss a specific jurisdiction or workflow? Talk to the Zavia team.

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