Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) issued
company.lei_issued · Ready Global LEI register, worldwide
What it is
Public: from open or licensed sources, shared by everyone who subscribes.
- Example: LEI issued: Nordhafen Capital Partners GmbH (Hamburg)
- Typed payload, validated by its JSON Schema
- Collected today from Global LEI register (worldwide)
Each event names its exact source, a link to the record, the licence and the attribution in its provenance.
Example event, standard format
{
"specversion": "1.0",
"id": "evt_01M5EV0NM0RGZPEMC1KXC94DTQ",
"type": "company.lei_issued",
"source": "/sources/examples/company",
"time": "2026-10-21T09:00:00Z",
"observed_at": "2026-10-21T09:00:42Z",
"dataschema": "https://schemas.worldsignals.dev/company.lei_issued/1.json",
"datacontenttype": "application/json",
"visibility": "public",
"country": "DE",
"region": "DE-HH",
"place": {
"locality": "Hamburg",
"precision": "locality"
},
"subject": {
"kind": "company",
"name": "Nordhafen Capital Partners GmbH",
"ids": {
"lei": "984500A1B2C3D4E5F617"
},
"ws_id": "ent_01M5EV0NM0C4GE84SBYQZWYB29"
},
"title": "LEI issued: Nordhafen Capital Partners GmbH (Hamburg)",
"lang": "de",
"data": {
"lei": "984500A1B2C3D4E5F617",
"category": "general",
"legal_form": {
"elf": "2HBR"
},
"jurisdiction": "DE",
"registered_as": "HRB 187654",
"registration_authority": "RA000242",
"created_on": "2026-09-14",
"newly_formed": true,
"issuer_lei": "529900T8BM49AURSDO55",
"corroboration": "fully_corroborated",
"next_renewal_on": "2027-10-28"
},
"provenance": {
"source_id": "example",
"source_name": "Example data",
"url": "https://example.com/worldsignals/company.lei_issued",
"licence": "Example only, not a real record",
"method": "example"
},
"confidence": 0.95,
"personal_data": false,
"revision": 1,
"tags": [
"example",
"lei",
"new_business"
]
}Payload fields
What data holds in a legal Entity Identifier (LEI) issued event, from its JSON Schema. Every event also has the fields of the standard envelope: id, time, subject, place, provenance and more.
| Field | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
data. | Text | The new LEI, 20 characters. Look it up at search.gleif.org. |
data. | One of | The kind of entity: general (companies and most other legal entities), fund, branch (of a company registered elsewhere), government_entity, international_organisation. Filter with where=data.category=fund.general fund branch government_entity international_organisation |
data. | Text | The ISO 20275 entity legal form code (ELF), e.g. 8Z6G for a German KG. |
data. | Text | The legal form in words, when the record gives it instead of a code. |
data. | Text | Where the entity was formed, ISO 3166-1 or 3166-2 (US-DE for Delaware). Filter with where=data.jurisdiction=US-DE. |
data. | Text | The entity's number in its own register (a company number, a fund's authorisation number), as the LEI record gives it. |
data. | Text | The register that number belongs to, by its GLEIF Registration Authorities code (RA000585 and so on). |
data. | Text | Created on |
data. | Yes or no | True when the entity was created 90 days or less before its LEI: a new company, fund or vehicle, not an old one that starts trading. Filter with where=data.newly_formed=true. |
data. | Text | Headquarters country |
data. | Text | The LEI of the issuing organisation (Local Operating Unit) that issued and manages the LEI. |
data. | One of | How far the issuer checked the record against its register: fully_corroborated, partially_corroborated, or entity_supplied_only (taken from the entity).fully_corroborated partially_corroborated entity_supplied_only |
data. | Text | Next renewal on |
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