Who owns the company?

The shareholder list for a company: every shareholder with ownership share, share class and who the beneficial owner is, not just who sits at the top of the chain.

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Prøv med et ekte company: Eksempel Eiendom AS

• Trial key with GitHub in under a minute
• One GET call
• ISO 6523 identifiers
• Norway and Sweden
• Brønnøysundregistrene verified

ℹ️ The endpoint responds once the Placepoint API is launched. The contract below is final; the Tenant API already responds.

From organisation number to ownership picture

The call tells you who actually owns the company. Banks use the shareholder list to know the counterparty before a credit decision, agents use it to see whether a sales mandate involves several owners who have to agree, and compliance teams use it to identify who ultimately holds control.

Each entry is a person or another company, with the ownership share as a fraction, the share class and the number of shares. An organisation comes with a full organisation number and name. A person comes with a year of birth by default; the full name also requires the owners.read scope, the same limit that the owner lookup on a property uses.

isUltimateBeneficialOwner flags a shareholder registered as a beneficial owner, that is, the person who ultimately controls the company, however many steps the ownership passes through.

• Beneficial owner in the same call

  isUltimateBeneficialOwner answers directly who ultimately controls the company, without you having to follow the ownership chain upwards manually through several company lookups.

• Ownership as a fraction, not a percentage rounded away

  share.numerator and share.denominator give the exact ownership share. A rounded percentage in a manual lookup hides the difference between 49.9% and 50.1%.

• Company and person in the same list

  A shareholder that is a holding company and a shareholder that is a person come in the same list, with kind separating them. No separate list to merge yourself.

Fields that actually tell you something

One GET call on the company's scheme and id gives you the whole shareholder register. The fields below are the ones that decide what you can read out of each shareholder.

GET/companies/{scheme}/{id}/shareholders

curl -X GET "https://data.placepoint.no/companies/0192/987654321/shareholders" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

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{
  "items": [
    {
      "kind": "ORGANIZATION",
      "organization": {
        "organizationIdentifier": {
          "scheme": "0192",
          "id": "911222333"
        },
        "name": "Eksempel Holding AS",
        "country": "NO"
      },
      "share": {
        "numerator": 3,
        "denominator": 4
      },
      "registeredAt": "2018-01-10T00:00:00Z",
      "shareClass": "A",
      "shares": 750,
      "isUltimateBeneficialOwner": true
    },
    {
      "kind": "PERSON",
      "person": {
        "birthYear": 1968
      },
      "share": {
        "numerator": 1,
        "denominator": 4
      },
      "registeredAt": "2018-01-10T00:00:00Z",
      "shareClass": "A",
      "shares": 250,
      "isUltimateBeneficialOwner": false
    }
  ]
}

Scope: companies.readTeknisk referanse og Try-it

Vis alle felt (20)

Felt	Type	Beskrivelse
items[].kind	string	Which nested object is populated.
items[].person.name	string	Full name.
items[].person.birthYear	integer	Year of birth.
items[].organization.organizationIdentifier.scheme	string	ISO 6523 ICD code.
items[].organization.organizationIdentifier.id	string	Register identifier.
items[].organization.name	string	Registered name.
items[].organization.country	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.
items[].organization.links[].href	string	Absolute URL.
items[].organization.links[].title	string	Human label.
items[].share.numerator	integer	Numerator.
items[].share.denominator	integer	Denominator.
items[].registeredAt	string	When the register recorded it.
items[].interestType	string	The interest the grunnbok records, e.g. Hjemmelshaver or Fester.
items[].contactRole	string	Registered contact role, where the party is recorded as a contact rather than a holder.
items[].untilDate	string	When the interest ended. Absent means the interest is current, which is the only way to tell a former owner from a present one.
items[].shareClass	string	Share class, e.g. A or B.
items[].shares	integer	Number of shares held.
items[].isUltimateBeneficialOwner	boolean	Whether the shareholder is recorded as a reell rettighetshaver.
items[].fiscalYear	integer	The aksjonærregister year the entry is taken from.
items[].sourceDate	string	When the register data was collected.

Without the owners.read scope, only person.birthYear is returned for a person shareholder, never the name. isUltimateBeneficialOwner is always included, whatever the scope.

Three steps to your first response

1. Log in with GitHub

   One click, under a minute, no payment card. The key comes back to this page.

2. Call the endpoint

   Replace $TOKEN in the curl above with your key. The call only needs the scheme and the organisation number you already have from the company lookup.

3. Use the response

   Filter on isUltimateBeneficialOwner to find the controlling owner directly, or sum share to see the full ownership split.

Data and sources

Norwegian shareholder data comes from the Brønnøysundregistrene shareholder register, updated continuously. Swedish shareholder data is verified against the Bolagsverket register via Combify.

See also

• Company panel
• Technical reference
• Placepoint API

Questions and answers

Why do I only get a year of birth and not the shareholder's name?

Personal names in the shareholder list require the owners.read scope in addition to companies.read. Without it, the call returns the year of birth where it is known, the same limit that applies to the owner lookup for a property.

What is a beneficial owner?

The person who ultimately controls the company, either directly or through an ownership chain, registered in the Brønnøysundregistrene register of beneficial owners. isUltimateBeneficialOwner flags this shareholder directly in the response.

How fresh is the data?

The shareholder register is kept continuously updated against Brønnøysundregistrene. An ownership change is visible in the call as soon as it is registered.

Does it work in Sweden?

Yes. Use scheme 0007 and the Swedish organisationsnummer, and the call responds with the same set of fields, verified against the Bolagsverket register via Combify.

Find out who owns the company

One GET call gives you the shareholder list with ownership share and the beneficial owner flagged directly. Log in with GitHub at the top of the page to try it today, or get in touch for access to the whole country.

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