- Europe
- United Kingdom
Europe
United Kingdom
Company data from the United Kingdom business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads Companies House (UK Companies Register) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons, shareholders, ultimate beneficial owners, subsidiaries and establishments of United Kingdom companies through one API.
What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.
Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).
Datapoints
- Company profileYes
- Legal representativesYes
- Other key personsYes
- ShareholdersRebuilt from filings
Comes back in Verify.
- Ultimate beneficial ownersYes
Comes back in Verify.
- SubsidiariesYes
Comes back in Verify.
- EstablishmentsYes
Documents
- Register extractYes
- Articles of associationYes
- FinancialsYes
- UBO extractNo
- Companies House Extract
- Articles of Association
- Annual accounts
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 1 s in prefill mode and 3 s in verification mode.
These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
Companies House: the official UK register of companies, maintained by the UK government
- GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
Request a company by its Company Number as the id, with countryCode set to GB. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.
The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.
- Identifiers and formats3
- Search patterns2
- Quirks11
- Legal forms40
- Officer roles32
- Company statuses13
- Documents3
- Example responses10