Legal form metadata

Managed reference data for 3,620 legal forms with official and commonly used abbreviations and corresponding country. Legal forms with a similar purpose, beside country-specific aspects, are grouped by 86 legal form categories.

Legal forms in the CDQ data model

Legal forms define the official organisational type of a business partner and are modelled as a dedicated reference domain in the CDQ data model. They link each entity to a country, standardise local names and abbreviations, and group forms into categories for consistent semantics across jurisdictions. This structure supports validation logic, matching, compliance checks and prepares partner data for analytics and AI.

All legal forms managed by CDQ

See country information with all legal forms per country:

Country	Number of legal forms
AC (Ascension Island)	0
AD (Andorra)	0
AE (United Arab Emirates)	37
AF (Afghanistan)	0
AG (Antigua and Barbuda)	1
AI (Anguilla)	1
AL (Albania)	2
AM (Armenia)	11
AN (Netherlands Antilles)	0
AO (Angola)	1
AP (African Regional Industrial Property Organization)	0
AQ (Antarctica)	0
AR (Argentina)	25
AS (American Samoa)	0
AT (Austria)	30
AU (Australia)	15
AW (Aruba)	12
AX (Åland Islands)	0
AZ (Azerbaijan)	12
BA (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	6
BB (Barbados)	10
BD (Bangladesh)	1
BE (Belgium)	185
BF (Burkina Faso)	0
BG (Bulgaria)	23
BH (Bahrain)	5
BI (Burundi)	0
BJ (Benin)	8
BL (Saint Barthélemy)	0
BM (Bermuda)	14
BN (Brunei Darussalam)	4
BO (Bolivia)	13
BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)	17
BR (Brazil)	16
BS (Bahamas)	13
BT (Bhutan)	0
BU (Burma)	0
BV (Bouvet Island)	0
BW (Botswana)	4
BX (Benelux Trademarks and Designs Office)	0
BY (Byelorussian SSR)	8
BZ (Belize)	6
CA (Canada)	159
CC (Cocos)	0
CD (Congo)	0
CF (Central African Republic)	0
CG (Congo)	0
CH (Switzerland)	34
CI (Côte d'Ivoire)	0
CK (Cook Islands)	6
CL (Chile)	19
CM (Cameroon)	1
CN (China)	41
CO (Colombia)	13
CP (Clipperton Island)	0
CQ (Island of Sark)	0
CR (Costa Rica)	22
CS (Serbia and Montenegro)	0
CT (Canton and Enderbury Islands)	0
CU (Cuba)	0
CV (Cabo Verde)	0
CW (Curaçao)	13
CX (Christmas Island)	0
CY (Cyprus)	20
CZ (Czechia)	102
DD (German Democratic Republic)	0
DE (Germany)	63
DG (Diego Garcia)	0
DJ (Djibouti)	0
DK (Denmark)	27
DM (Dominica)	0
DO (Dominican Republic)	9
DY (Dahomey)	0
DZ (Algeria)	0
EA (Ceuta, Melilla)	0
EC (Ecuador)	11
EE (Estonia)	21
EF (Union of Countries under the European Community Patent Convention)	0
EG (Egypt)	2
EH (Western Sahara)	0
EM (European Trademark Office)	0
EP (European Patent Organization)	0
ER (Eritrea)	0
ES (Spain)	52
ET (Ethiopia)	0
EU (European Union)	0
EV (Eurasian Patent Organization)	0
EW (Estonia)	0
EZ (European OTC)	0
FI (Finland)	65
FJ (Fiji)	8
FK (Falkland Islands)	0
FL (Liechtenstein)	0
FM (Micronesia)	0
FO (Faroe Islands)	5
FQ (French Southern and Antarctic Territories)	0
FR (France)	263
FX (France, Metropolitan)	0
GA (Gabon)	0
GB (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)	51
GC (Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf)	0
GD (Grenada)	0
GE (Georgia)	0
GF (French Guiana)	0
GG (Guernsey)	14
GH (Ghana)	10
GI (Gibraltar)	10
GL (Greenland)	0
GM (Gambia)	0
GN (Guinea)	0
GP (Guadeloupe)	0
GQ (Equatorial Guinea)	0
GR (Greece)	26
GS (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)	0
GT (Guatemala)	9
GU (Guam)	7
GW (Guinea-Bissau)	0
GY (Guyana)	0
HK (Hong Kong)	14
HM (Heard Island and McDonald Islands)	0
HN (Honduras)	7
HR (Croatia)	35
HT (Haiti)	0
HU (Hungary)	34
HV (Upper Volta)	0
IB (International Bureau of WIPO)	0
IC (Canary Islands)	0
ID (Indonesia)	15
IE (Ireland)	26
IL (Israel)	15
IM (Isle of Man)	18
IN (India)	36
IO (British Indian Ocean Territory)	0
IQ (Iraq)	0
IR (Iran)	1
IS (Iceland)	9
IT (Italy)	63
JA (Jamaica)	0
JE (Jersey)	8
JM (Jamaica)	7
JO (Jordan)	10
JP (Japan)	25
JT (Johnston Island)	0
KE (Kenya)	4
KG (Kyrgyzstan)	0
KH (Cambodia)	8
KI (Kiribati)	0
KM (Comoros)	0
KN (Saint Kitts and Nevis)	16
KP (North Korea)	0
KR (South Korea)	23
KW (Kuwait)	10
KY (Cayman Islands)	12
KZ (Kazakhstan)	10
LA (Lao People's Democratic Republic)	0
LB (Lebanon)	2
LC (Saint Lucia)	0
LF (Libya Fezzan)	0
LI (Liechtenstein)	21
LK (Sri Lanka)	0
LR (Liberia)	0
LS (Lesotho)	4
LT (Lithuania)	42
LU (Luxembourg)	31
LV (Latvia)	24
LY (Libya)	0
MA (Morocco)	2
MC (Monaco)	10
MD (Moldova)	0
ME (Montenegro)	0
MF (Saint Martin)	0
MG (Madagascar)	0
MH (Marshall Islands)	4
MI (Midway Islands)	0
MK (North Macedonia)	9
ML (Mali)	0
MM (Myanmar)	7
MN (Mongolia)	2
MO (Macao)	1
MP (Northern Mariana Islands)	0
MQ (Martinique)	0
MR (Mauritania)	1
MS (Montserrat)	0
MT (Malta)	18
MU (Mauritius)	13
MV (Maldives)	0
MW (Malawi)	0
MX (Mexico)	91
MY (Malaysia)	25
MZ (Mozambique)	1
NA (Namibia)	6
NC (New Caledonia)	0
NE (Niger)	15
NF (Norfolk Island)	0
NG (Nigeria)	8
NH (New Hebrides)	0
NI (Nicaragua)	5
NL (Netherlands)	25
NO (Norway)	41
NP (Nepal)	9
NQ (Dronning Maud Land)	0
NR (Nauru)	0
NT (Neutral Zone)	0
NU (Niue)	0
NZ (New Zealand)	24
OA (African Intellectual Property Organization)	0
OM (Oman)	10
PA (Panama)	11
PC (Pacific Islands)	0
PE (Peru)	15
PF (French Polynesia)	1
PG (Papua New Guinea)	3
PH (Philippines)	9
PI (Philippines)	0
PK (Pakistan)	10
PL (Poland)	50
PM (Saint Pierre and Miquelon)	0
PN (Pitcairn)	0
PR (Puerto Rico)	24
PS (Palestine, State of)	0
PT (Portugal)	40
PU (United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands)	0
PW (Palau)	0
PY (Paraguay)	6
PZ (Panama Canal Zone)	0
QA (Qatar)	9
RA (Argentina)	0
RB (Bolivia and Botswana)	0
RC (China)	0
RE (Réunion)	0
RH (Southern Rhodesia)	0
RI (Indonesia)	0
RL (Lebanon)	0
RM (Madagascar)	0
RN (Niger)	0
RO (Romania)	33
RP (Philippines)	0
RS (Serbia)	18
RU (Russian Federation)	126
RW (Rwanda)	0
SA (Saudi Arabia)	14
SB (Solomon Islands)	4
SC (Seychelles)	16
SD (Sudan)	0
SE (Sweden)	31
SF (Finland)	0
SG (Singapore)	14
SH (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)	0
SI (Slovenia)	34
SJ (Svalbard and Jan Mayen)	0
SK (the Slovak Republic)	105
SL (Sierra Leone)	0
SM (San Marino)	4
SN (Senegal)	0
SO (Somalia)	0
SR (Suriname)	8
SS (South Sudan)	0
ST (Sao Tome and Principe)	0
SU (USSR)	0
SV (El Salvador)	1
SX (Sint Maarten)	12
SY (Syrian Arab Republic)	0
SZ (Eswatini)	0
TA (French Southern Territories)	0
TC (Turks and Caicos Islands)	0
TD (Chad)	0
TF (French Southern Territories)	0
TG (Togo)	0
TH (Thailand)	15
TJ (Tajikistan)	0
TK (Tokelau)	0
TL (Timor-Leste)	1
TM (Turkmenistan)	0
TN (Tunisia)	4
TO (Tonga)	2
TP (East Timor)	0
TR (Turkey)	16
TT (Trinidad and Tobago)	0
TV (Tuvalu)	6
TW (Taiwan)	22
TZ (Tanzania, the United Republic of)	7
UA (Ukraine)	11
UG (Uganda)	0
UK (United Kingdom)	0
UM (United States Minor Outlying Islands)	0
UN (United Nations)	0
US (United States of America)	419
UY (Uruguay)	11
UZ (Uzbekistan)	0
VA (Holy See)	0
VC (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)	15
VD (Viet-Nam, Democratic Republic of)	0
VE (Venezuela)	2
VG (Virgin Islands)	9
VI (Virgin Islands)	13
VN (Viet Nam)	11
VU (Vanuatu)	3
WF (Wallis and Futuna)	0
WG (Grenada)	0
WK (Wake Island)	0
WL (Saint Lucia)	0
WO (World Intellectual Property Organization)	0
WORLD (World)	0
WS (Samoa)	7
WV (Saint Vincent)	0
XI (United Kingdom (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland)	0
XK (Kosovo)	10
YD (Yemen, Democratic)	0
YE (Yemen)	0
YT (Mayotte)	0
YU (Yugoslavia)	0
YV (Venezuela)	0
ZA (South Africa)	16
ZM (Zambia)	1
ZR (Zaire)	0
ZW (Zimbabwe)	1