Identify the people who ultimately own or control a company.
Zavia follows direct shareholders through holding companies, parent entities and cross-border ownership layers until relevant individuals or controllers are reached.
A company can be a shareholder. It cannot be the final answer.
Zavia continues through corporate owners rather than presenting an intermediary entity as the UBO. If a chain cannot be completed, the exact missing layer remains visible for review.
Illustrative conclusion
Daniel Reed is identified with 60% effective ownership through Meridian Capital and Harbour Industrial Holdings. The supported path is shown as 80% × 75% × 100%.
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.
01
See exactly how each UBO was reached
Review every company and person in the path, with direct and calculated interests shown at the appropriate layer.
Full entity-by-entity path
Ownership and control kept distinct
Workflow-specific thresholds
02
Handle ownership that does not fit one row
Trace several corporate shareholders independently, combine supported branches and surface circular or conflicting relationships for review.
Multiple ownership branches
Cross-border chains
Minority interests preserved
03
Produce a conclusion you can defend
The final name is accompanied by a human explanation, source dates, ownership route and the calculation behind the result.
Plain-language conclusion
Reproducible percentage
Explicit evidence boundary
Evidence architecture
One answer. Four clearly different evidence states.
A defensible UBO result must reveal both the underlying registry facts and the logic used to turn them into an ultimate-ownership conclusion.
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.
01
AML and KYB
Review the people behind an entity during onboarding or refresh.
02
Supplier diligence
Identify relevant owners before approving a third party.
03
Corporate investigations
Follow layered ownership across entities and jurisdictions.
04
M&A research
Understand ultimate ownership before evaluating a transaction.
Use the same evidence everywhere
For analysts, systems, agents and data platforms.
Depending on the agreed implementation, ubo discovery 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.