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This guide contains public integration notes for Liechtenstein. Use it for identifier formats, search behavior, and country-specific caveats. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, documents, legal forms, roles, and status values is the pricing page.Liechtenstein coverage, pricing, and sources
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Data Sources
All company data is sourced from the official Liechtenstein Handelsregister (Trade Register), operated by the Amt fuer Justiz (Office of Justice). Verification and prefill expose different levels of detail depending on the requested datapoint.Prefill Profile (lightweight)
- Handelsregister Company Details Page (handelsregister.li). The public company details page of the official trade register. Provides basic company information: legal name, legal form, status, address (street and postal code when the register publishes a service address, otherwise the registered city), and activity codes inferred from the company purpose (Zweck). No legal representatives or shareholders.
Company Profile (comprehensive)
- Handelsregister Trade Register Extract (Handelsregisterauszug). The official trade register extract is the primary source for comprehensive verification data: legal name, legal form, status, capital, registered address, legal representatives, shareholders, and company purpose.
Comprehensive verification can take longer than lightweight prefill because the official extract must be retrieved and converted into structured data. Use webhooks or polling for this country.
Company Identifiers
Prefill profiles for Aktiengesellschaft companies can returncompany.identifiers.euid, for example LIFL.FL-0001.548.501-4, when the company identity is confirmed. EUID is not currently provided in verification profiles or for other legal forms. It is not a search key.
Query Identifiers
Identifiers in API Response
Once you retrieve company data, theidentifiers object contains:
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
GLEIF is the supplementary data source for this identifier.company.identifiers.lei is optional. It is returned when the FL-Nummer (flNumber) matches exactly one LEI through a GLEIF registration or validation reference.
The Legal Entity Identifier has 20 uppercase alphanumeric characters, ending in two check digits.
Coverage varies by entity. An absent lei does not prove that the company has no LEI. Lapsed, retired or merged LEIs may be returned; annulled LEIs are excluded.
Search Capabilities
Search includes deleted companies. Name searches include deleted (geloescht) companies in results by default.
Active companies only
The register itself excludes companies that are no longer active when you search withactiveOnly=true. Name searches exclude deleted companies at the register itself. A lookup by FL number only ever returns companies still on the register.
Quirks & Gotchas
Company Status
Company status is determined differently depending on the data point requested.Prefill Profile (from company details page)
Status is derived from keyword matching on the Handelsregister company details page:Company Profile (AI-parsed from trade register extract)
Status is extracted from the trade register extract PDF using AI parsing. The AI analyzes the document text and produces a standardized status.For the prefill profile, status classification is deterministic (keyword matching). For the company profile, status is AI-parsed from the trade register extract document, which may use either German or English terminology.
Legal Forms
Liechtenstein has a distinctive set of legal forms, including entity types unique to the principality (Anstalt, Trust). Legal form names come from the Handelsregister and are enriched with AI for standardized names, and ISO 20275 codes are matched against the GLEIF list of Liechtenstein legal forms.Key Business Forms
Unique Liechtenstein Entity Types
Sole Entrepreneurs & Cooperatives
Non-Profits
Legal form standardization and ISO 20275 assignment are AI-enriched. The local German legal form name from the Handelsregister is always preserved verbatim.
Legal Representatives
Legal representatives are extracted from the trade register extract (Handelsregisterauszug) PDF in verification mode. Registered signing rights and statutory appointment capacity control classification; the office title alone does not establish sole or unrestricted representation. Non-signing offices and audit appointments are returned underotherKeyPersons from the same extract. Neither person list is available in prefill mode.
Extraction Details
Complete Role Nomenclature
Executive & Management Roles
Executive & Management Roles
Board & Supervisory Roles
Board & Supervisory Roles
Special Roles
Special Roles
Role standardization is AI-determined and depends on the company’s legal form context. Signing authority details (Einzelzeichnung, Kollektivzeichnung zu zweien) are captured when available in the trade register extract.
Other Key Persons
Non-signing board or management offices, and Revisor / Revisionsstelle audit appointments, are returned in verification mode when the extract records them. Exact filed titles, individual or corporate identities, and appointment dates are preserved where supplied. A board chair without representation capacity uses Chairman of the Board inotherKeyPersons; a management office without such capacity uses C-Level Executive. Trustee appointments remain source-qualified rather than acquiring powers from their title.
The extract’s signing column distinguishes Einzelunterschrift, Kollektivunterschrift zu zweien or dreien, and a bare collective signing right. The Office of Justice explains that a bare collective right requires all other authorized signers; it must not be assumed to require only two. Source wording and restrictions are preserved when available.
Shareholders
Shareholders are extracted from the trade register extract (Handelsregisterauszug) PDF using AI parsing. This data is only available in verification mode.Extraction Logic
Availability by Legal Form
Ownership Fields
Key Terminology
Shareholder data availability depends on the legal form. Shareholder records exist only for legal forms with share capital (GmbH Gesellschafter, AG Aktionäre) and are returned when the register lists them. Einzelfirma and Verein have no share capital, so
shareholders returns an explicit not-applicable response instead of an empty array. Anstalt, Stiftung, and Trust entities typically have no shareholder section in the register.Activity Code Mapping
Liechtenstein does not use a national activity code classification in the Handelsregister. Activity codes are always AI-inferred from the company’sZweck (purpose) field, which is a free-text description extracted from the trade register extract or the company details page.
Both NACE and ISIC codes are always AI-inferred for Liechtenstein companies because the trade register provides only a free-text purpose description (Zweck), not structured activity codes. The
isAIInferred flag is always true. For the prefill profile, activity codes are inferred from the company purpose, and the single code inferred from the Zweck is flagged with isMainActivity: true. Because it is always AI-inferred, it stays distinguishable from a main activity a register itself declares, and an absent flag means the source did not designate one.Data Availability Matrix
Legend: Yes = Available | No = Not Available | Conditional = Depends on legal form | Async = Asynchronous processing
Documents by Company Type
All companies (active only)
Data Source Priority & Routing
Liechtenstein uses a single data source (the Handelsregister) with two access methods depending on the requested data point:One extract serves the whole verification profile. In verification mode,
company, legalRepresentatives, and shareholders are all built from a single trade register extract, and ordering the extract document too does not add a second charge. See the pricing page for current prices.Example API Responses
All examples use placeholder data. Query:POST /v2/company with { "id": "<id>", "countryCode": "LI", "dataPoints": ["company", "legalRepresentatives"] }
Deleted Company (Prefill Profile)
Deleted Company (Prefill Profile)
active: false and status Gelöscht. Full company profile (with legal representatives and shareholders) is not available for deleted companies because the trade register extract cannot be retrieved.Anstalt (Company Profile) -- unique Liechtenstein entity
Anstalt (Company Profile) -- unique Liechtenstein entity
Available Documents (company example)
Available Documents (company example)
Documents are returned when
"dataPoints": ["availableDocuments"] is requested.Note: Only the uncertified register extract is currently available. Certified register extracts (
certifiedTradeRegisterExtract) are defined as a document type but not yet implemented.