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Reference · ISO 20275 Entity Legal Forms

Every legal form a company can take, mapped to the place that defines it.

Spin the globe to any of 129 jurisdictions and read the legal entity types it recognizes — from the corporation and the LLC to forms that exist in only one country, or one state.

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The legal forms

Choose any jurisdiction on the globe, or search by name, to read its legal entity types here — each one’s local name, its romanization where it differs, and the abbreviations companies file under.

National vs. state

In nine jurisdictions, the legal form is defined one level down.

A Delaware corporation and a Texas corporation are not the same legal form, and neither is filed with the federal government. These jurisdictions register entity types at the state, provincial, or emirate level, which is why a single country can carry hundreds of distinct forms. Open one to see how it splits.

By region

Browse all 129 jurisdictions

North America24

South America10

Europe44

Africa11

Asia28

Oceania12

Track entities in every form, in every jurisdiction

Lextree holds the record for each legal entity you manage — its form, its jurisdiction, and every filing that keeps it in good standing.

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