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Use this guide for CNPJ formats, search behavior and the meaning of Brazil’s company data. The Brazil coverage page lists current datapoints, sources, legal forms and availability.

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Data Sources
Company Identifiers
Search Capabilities
Quirks & Gotchas
Mappings
Data Availability
Example API Responses

Data Sources

The Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica (CNPJ), maintained by Receita Federal, covers legal entities and their establishments. Data comes from periodic public CNPJ publications. Recent registrations and changes may be absent until a later publication. The company datapoint includes registration details, cadastral status, capital, address and economic activities when published. Representatives, other key persons and eligible equity partners come from the Quadro de Sócios e Administradores (QSA). Availability varies by legal nature. For reporting issuers, the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) publishes shareholder disclosures in the Formulário de Referência. These can supplement shareholders when QSA does not publish equity owners. They describe identified direct holdings at the disclosed date, not a complete current shareholder register. The same reference forms can supply executive officers, board and fiscal council members, committee members and company participations. Election and appointment dates remain distinct; a board or committee title does not establish signing powers. The latest disclosure in the current reference year is used when available, with the preceding year as a fallback. Older historical disclosures are not covered. GLEIF supplements company.identifiers.lei when an existing identifier uniquely matches a registration or validation reference. An absent LEI field does not prove the entity has no LEI. See Legal Entity Identifier.

Company Identifiers

Key	Format	Example
`cnpj`	12 uppercase letters A-Z or digits, followed by two numeric modulo-11 check digits. Older registrations contain digits only.	`19131243000197`
`lei`	20 alphanumeric characters, when available as a supplementary response identifier.	See LEI.

CNPJ is the primary identifier and national tax number. It covers companies, sole entrepreneurs, non-profits and other registered entities. The first eight characters identify the entity and the next four identify its establishment. Send all 14 characters and preserve leading zeros. Formatted input such as 19.131.243/0001-97 is accepted. Results use 19131243000197. Lowercase letters are normalized to uppercase. Alphanumeric CNPJs have been issued since July 2026; 00000000E08G12 identifies the first such registration, a Banco do Brasil branch. See Receita Federal’s announcement.

Search Capabilities

Search supports legal and commercial names, and an exact, complete CNPJ with or without display punctuation. Name searches match words and prefixes without requiring accents. Partial-number, person-name and CPF searches are unavailable. Legal-name matches normally identify a registered head office; commercial-name matches can identify a branch. Results always carry the actual establishment CNPJ. A head-office number is never manufactured from a branch number. Results include the legal name and available address for the establishment. activeOnly=true excludes cancelled and deregistered registrations. Suspended or irregular tax registration leaves operating status unknown and may remain in results. An empty result means the CNPJ was not found in the available publication; it does not establish that a newly registered entity does not exist.

Quirks & Gotchas

Establishment scope. Branches share the parent entity’s legal name, capital and QSA. Their CNPJs, addresses and economic activities can differ.
Dates. registrationDate is the establishment’s reported activity-start date. It is not certified incorporation of the parent entity. QSA entry dates do not establish officer appointment dates.
Cadastral status. Tax suspension or irregularity does not establish dissolution or cessation. Preserve the local status alongside the standardized active flag.
Partner identity. A corporate QSA record can identify a foreign company. Short foreign source identifiers are not Brazilian CNPJs or CPFs. Personal CPF values may be masked; missing digits are not reconstructed.
Sole entrepreneurs. Published addresses and contact details may be redacted. The proprietor’s name is returned under legalRepresentatives when identified in the registration name.
Ownership limits. QSA is a combined partners-and-management disclosure. It does not supply ownership percentages, share counts, a complete joint-stock shareholder register or certified beneficial ownership.

Mappings

Company Status

Local status	Meaning	`status.active`
ATIVA	Active cadastral registration	`true`
ATIVA NÃO REGULAR	Active registration with irregularities	`true`
NULA	Cancelled registration	`false`
BAIXADA	Deregistered	`false`
SUSPENSA	Suspended cadastral registration	Not established
INAPTA	Irregular cadastral registration	Not established

The local label is preserved. Unknown status codes do not create an active or inactive assertion. The mapping includes the official CNPJ query vocabulary. ATIVA NÃO REGULAR is documented there but is absent from the current periodic publication’s status list. Neither active label is a guarantee of good standing.

Legal Forms

Legal natures use Receita Federal’s complete published dictionary, including public bodies and legacy forms. A known exact match can include an ISO 20275 code. An unknown legal nature retains its source label. The former EIRELI forms (2305 and 2313) remain recognizable in historical records but are discontinued. A single-member law firm (2321) retains its distinct professional form; it is not classified as a limited liability company.

Code	Local legal nature	Standardized category	ISO 20275
0000	Natureza Jurídica não informada	Other
1015	Órgão Público do Poder Executivo Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1023	Órgão Público do Poder Executivo Estadual ou do Distrito Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1031	Órgão Público do Poder Executivo Municipal	Government-Owned Entity
1040	Órgão Público do Poder Legislativo Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1058	Órgão Público do Poder Legislativo Estadual ou do Distrito Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1066	Órgão Público do Poder Legislativo Municipal	Government-Owned Entity
1074	Órgão Público do Poder Judiciário Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1082	Órgão Público do Poder Judiciário Estadual	Government-Owned Entity
1104	Autarquia Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1112	Autarquia Estadual ou do Distrito Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1120	Autarquia Municipal	Government-Owned Entity
1139	Fundação Pública de Direito Público Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1147	Fundação Pública de Direito Público Estadual ou do Distrito Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1155	Fundação Pública de Direito Público Municipal	Government-Owned Entity
1163	Órgão Público Autônomo Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1171	Órgão Público Autônomo Estadual ou do Distrito Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1180	Órgão Público Autônomo Municipal	Government-Owned Entity
1198	Comissão Polinacional	Government-Owned Entity
1210	Consórcio Público de Direito Público (Associação Pública)	Government-Owned Entity
1228	Consórcio Público de Direito Privado	Government-Owned Entity
1236	Estado ou Distrito Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1244	Município	Government-Owned Entity
1252	Fundação Pública de Direito Privado Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1260	Fundação Pública de Direito Privado Estadual ou do Distrito Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1279	Fundação Pública de Direito Privado Municipal	Government-Owned Entity
1287	Fundo Público da Administração Indireta Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1295	Fundo Público da Administração Indireta Estadual ou do Distrito Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1309	Fundo Público da Administração Indireta Municipal	Government-Owned Entity
1317	Fundo Público da Administração Direta Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1325	Fundo Público da Administração Direta Estadual ou do Distrito Federal	Government-Owned Entity
1333	Fundo Público da Administração Direta Municipal	Government-Owned Entity
1341	União	Government-Owned Entity
1350	ENTIDADE PÚBLICA SOB REGIME ESPECIAL	Government-Owned Entity
2011	Empresa Pública	Government-Owned Entity	4LKN
2038	Sociedade de Economia Mista	Government-Owned Entity
2046	Sociedade Anônima Aberta	Corporation	X0SD
2054	Sociedade Anônima Fechada	Corporation	X0SD
2062	Sociedade Empresária Limitada	Limited Liability Company	QHW1
2070	Sociedade Empresária em Nome Coletivo	Partnership	529B
2089	Sociedade Empresária em Comandita Simples	Partnership	WBEC
2097	Sociedade Empresária em Comandita por Ações	Corporation	X2ZT
2100	Sociedade Mercantil de Capital e Indústria	Partnership
2127	Sociedade em Conta de Participação	Partnership	XQRI
2135	Empresário (Individual)	Sole Proprietorship
2143	Cooperativa	Cooperative	PC5A
2151	Consórcio de Sociedades	Other
2160	Grupo de Sociedades	Other
2178	Estabelecimento, no Brasil, de Sociedade Estrangeira	Branch or Representative Office
2194	Estabelecimento, no Brasil, de Empresa Binacional Argentino-Brasileira	Branch or Representative Office
2216	Empresa Domiciliada no Exterior	Other
2224	Clube/Fundo de Investimento	Other
2232	Sociedade Simples Pura	Partnership	8GEA
2240	Sociedade Simples Limitada	Limited Liability Company	QHW1
2259	Sociedade Simples em Nome Coletivo	Partnership	529B
2267	Sociedade Simples em Comandita Simples	Partnership	WBEC
2275	Empresa Binacional	Corporation
2283	Consórcio de Empregadores	Other
2291	Consórcio Simples	Other
2305	Empresa Individual de Responsabilidade Limitada (de Natureza Empresária)	Limited Liability Company
2313	Empresa Individual de Responsabilidade Limitada (de Natureza Simples)	Limited Liability Company
2321	Sociedade Unipessoal de Advocacia	Other
2330	Cooperativas de Consumo	Cooperative
2348	Empresa Simples de Inovação	Other
3034	Serviço Notarial e Registral (Cartório)	Other
3069	Fundação Privada	Nonprofit Organization	I4T1
3077	Serviço Social Autônomo	Nonprofit Organization
3085	Condomínio Edilício	Other
3107	Comissão de Conciliação Prévia	Nonprofit Organization
3115	Entidade de Mediação e Arbitragem	Nonprofit Organization
3131	Entidade Sindical	Nonprofit Organization
3204	Estabelecimento, no Brasil, de Fundação ou Associação Estrangeiras	Nonprofit Organization
3212	Fundação ou Associação Domiciliada no Exterior	Nonprofit Organization
3220	Organização Religiosa	Nonprofit Organization	9BIS
3239	Comunidade Indígena	Nonprofit Organization
3247	Fundo Privado	Other
3255	Órgão de Direção Nacional de Partido Político	Nonprofit Organization
3263	Órgão de Direção Regional de Partido Político	Nonprofit Organization
3271	Órgão de Direção Local de Partido Político	Nonprofit Organization
3280	Comitê Financeiro de Partido Político	Nonprofit Organization
3298	Frente Plebiscitária ou Referendária	Nonprofit Organization
3301	Organização Social (OS)	Nonprofit Organization
3328	Plano de Benefícios de Previdência Complementar Fechada	Other
3999	Associação Privada	Nonprofit Organization	J7G9
4014	Empresa Individual Imobiliária	Sole Proprietorship
4090	Candidato a Cargo Político Eletivo	Other
4120	Produtor Rural (Pessoa Física)	Sole Proprietorship
5010	Organização Internacional	Other
5029	Representação Diplomática Estrangeira	Other
5037	Outras Instituições Extraterritoriais	Other
8885	Natureza Jurídica não informada	Other

Legal Representatives

Explicit administrators, directors, presidents, managing partners, liquidators and authorized agents are returned under legalRepresentatives. For a corporate representative, representedBy identifies its disclosed human agent. A corporate shareholder’s own agent is not returned as an officer of the requested entity. The qualifications do not certify individual or joint signing powers. The following table combines the 68 qualifications in the periodic publication with the additional official-query codes 76 and 77. A qualification can describe a partner, an officer, another person or the representative of a partner; its presence alone does not prove that every corresponding datapoint is available.

Code	QSA qualification	Standardized role
00	Não informada	Other
05	Administrador	Administrator
08	Conselheiro de Administração	Board Member
09	Curador	Other
10	Diretor	Director
11	Interventor	Administrator
12	Inventariante	Administrator
13	Liquidante	Liquidator
14	Mãe	Other
15	Pai	Other
16	Presidente	President
17	Procurador	Authorized Signatory
18	Secretário	Secretary
19	Síndico (Condomínio)	Administrator
20	Sociedade Consorciada	Other
21	Sociedade Filiada	Other
22	Sócio	Partner
23	Sócio Capitalista	Partner
24	Sócio Comanditado	Partner
25	Sócio Comanditário	Partner
26	Sócio de Indústria	Other
28	Sócio-Gerente	Managing Partner
29	Sócio Incapaz ou Relat.Incapaz (exceto menor)	Partner
30	Sócio Menor (Assistido/Representado)	Partner
31	Sócio Ostensivo	Managing Partner
32	Tabelião	Other
33	Tesoureiro	Other
34	Titular de Empresa Individual Imobiliária	Owner
35	Tutor	Other
37	Sócio Pessoa Jurídica Domiciliado no Exterior	Partner
38	Sócio Pessoa Física Residente no Exterior	Partner
39	Diplomata	Other
40	Cônsul	Other
41	Representante de Organização Internacional	Authorized Signatory
42	Oficial de Registro	Other
43	Responsável	Other
46	Ministro de Estado das Relações Exteriores	Other
47	Sócio Pessoa Física Residente no Brasil	Partner
48	Sócio Pessoa Jurídica Domiciliado no Brasil	Partner
49	Sócio-Administrador	Managing Partner
50	Empresário	Owner
51	Candidato a cargo Político Eletivo	Other
52	Sócio com Capital	Partner
53	Sócio sem Capital	Other
54	Fundador	Other
55	Sócio Comanditado Residente no Exterior	Partner
56	Sócio Comanditário Pessoa Física Residente no Exterior	Partner
57	Sócio Comanditário Pessoa Jurídica Domiciliado no Exterior	Partner
58	Sócio Comanditário Incapaz	Partner
59	Produtor Rural	Owner
60	Cônsul Honorário	Other
61	Responsável indígena	Other
62	Representante da Instituição Extraterritorial	Authorized Signatory
63	Cotas em Tesouraria	Other
64	Administrador Judicial	Administrator
65	Titular Pessoa Física Residente ou Domiciliado no Brasil	Partner
66	Titular Pessoa Física Residente ou Domiciliado no Exterior	Partner
67	Titular Pessoa Física Incapaz ou Relativamente Incapaz (exceto menor)	Partner
68	Titular Pessoa Física Menor (Assistido/Representado)	Partner
69	Beneficiário Final	Other
70	Administrador Residente ou Domiciliado no Exterior	Administrator
71	Conselheiro de Administração Residente ou Domiciliado no Exterior	Board Member
72	Diretor Residente ou Domiciliado no Exterior	Director
73	Presidente Residente ou Domiciliado no Exterior	President
74	Sócio-Administrador Residente ou Domiciliado no Exterior	Managing Partner
75	Fundador Residente ou Domiciliado no Exterior	Other
76	Protetor	Other
77	Vice-Presidente	Vice President
78	Titular Pessoa Jurídica Domiciliada no Brasil	Partner
79	Titular Pessoa Jurídica Domiciliada no Exterior	Partner

Other Key Persons

Non-signing board seats and other published QSA roles appear under otherKeyPersons. Officers and board members of non-profits appear under legalRepresentatives. Neither list is a guarantee of complete current management. For eligible reporting issuers, CVM reference forms can provide statutory executive officers, board and fiscal council members, and committee members. Governance records retain their filing date and version. An explicit appointment date can populate startDate; only a stated calendar end date populates endDate. The role catalogue distinguishes CVM positions from QSA qualifications. Combined executive and board titles have separate entries for each position. A person can appear in several disclosed appointments, including historical appointments with an end date.

Shareholders

Explicit equity-partner qualifications can identify shareholders in eligible companies, including limited companies. A partner-administrator may appear as both a representative and a shareholder. Managers without an ownership qualification, founders and treasury holdings are not treated as equity owners. Joint-stock and mixed-economy company QSA describes management, not the shareholder register. For reporting issuers, CVM disclosures can supply identified direct shareholders and published percentages or share counts. Indirect ownership links, treasury shares and anonymous free-float totals are excluded. Filing provenance records the disclosure date and version. When neither source publishes eligible holders, the shareholders datapoint returns no_data_available. Sole entrepreneurs and non-profits return datapoint_not_applicable; their company and representative datapoints can still succeed. QSA does not publish ownership percentages or share counts. Neither QSA partners nor CVM shareholders are certified ultimate beneficial owners.

Subsidiaries and Company Participations

For reporting issuers, subsidiaries contains companies named in the reference form’s company-participation disclosure. This includes disclosed investments and does not establish that every company is controlled by the issuer. The participation table does not specify whether its percentage is direct or consolidated. That figure stays in the filing provenance; sharePercentage, totalSharePercentage and voting rights are omitted. No acquisition date or control relationship is inferred. An issuer without a usable participation disclosure returns no_data_available. This is not a declaration that the company has no investments.

Activity Code Mapping

Activities use CNAE_BR, Brazil’s Classificação Nacional de Atividades Econômicas, with seven-character codes such as 0111301. Leading zeros are preserved. The primary activity carries isMainActivity: true; published secondary activities carry false. The serving publication does not state an edition for each record, so CNAE_BR has no guaranteed revision. It is separate from Spain’s CNAE_2009. No NACE or ISIC conversion is asserted.

Data Availability

Datapoint	Availability	Limits
`company`	Prefill	Periodic registration data; recent changes may be missing
`legalRepresentatives`	Prefill	Published QSA roles, identified sole proprietor or disclosed CVM executive officers
`otherKeyPersons`	Prefill	Published QSA roles or disclosed CVM board, fiscal council and committee members
`shareholders`	Prefill, eligible forms	QSA equity partners or identified direct holdings from CVM disclosures; no complete shareholder register
`subsidiaries`	Prefill, reporting issuers	Disclosed company participations; no inferred control or direct/consolidated percentage
`ultimateBeneficialOwners`	Unavailable	No certified ownership-chain declaration
`availableDocuments`	Empty catalogue	No document downloads

Official extracts, constitutional documents and financial statements are unavailable. Structured company data is not an official certificate.

Example API Responses

Request company data explicitly in prefill mode:

{
  "countryCode": "BR",
  "id": "19131243000197",
  "dataPoints": ["company", "legalRepresentatives"],
  "mode": "prefill"
}

Selected company fields for Open Knowledge Brasil

{
  "company": {
    "id": "19131243000197",
    "countryCode": "BR",
    "identifiers": { "cnpj": "19131243000197" },
    "legalName": "OPEN KNOWLEDGE BRASIL",
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "Associação Privada",
      "standardized": "Nonprofit Organization"
    },
    "status": { "localName": "ATIVA", "active": true }
  }
}

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Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Company Status

Legal Forms

Legal Representatives

Other Key Persons

Shareholders

Subsidiaries and Company Participations

Activity Code Mapping

Data Availability

Example API Responses

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​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Search Capabilities

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Company Status

​Legal Forms

​Legal Representatives

​Other Key Persons

​Shareholders

​Subsidiaries and Company Participations

​Activity Code Mapping

​Data Availability

​Example API Responses

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Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Company Status

Legal Forms

Legal Representatives

Other Key Persons

Shareholders

Subsidiaries and Company Participations

Activity Code Mapping

Data Availability

Example API Responses