Open Data: Global LEI Company Registry (GLEIF golden copy)
Open Data: Global LEI Company Registry (GLEIF golden copy) — part of the DataForge Open Data program.
Full production packages, free for academic and personal use under CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution + backlink required). Same files as served at https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/<package_id> (machine-readable index: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data).
Packages
| Package | Tier | Rows | Size | SHA-256 | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gleif-tier1-S-2026-08-04 |
S | 719,985 | 0.08 GB | 981447d6a52c8b36797d922ab5a1a884fd349a601e4b80792e56074f3ccab97c |
United States slice: all US-registered LEI entities with resolved direct/ultimate parents, the LEI↔name↔registry-number crosswalk for those entities, US group heads and the US rows of the country summary |
gleif-tier1-M-2026-08-04 |
M | 6,788,250 | 0.83 GB | fd853ae3469f04dd9974f01fd376f4709c08cad20ce17c63e9f677d6ef1fde5e |
Complete global company master data: all 3.39M LEI legal entities across 200+ jurisdictions with resolved direct/ultimate consolidation parents, the full LEI↔name↔local-registry-number crosswalk and country summaries |
gleif-tier2-L-2026-08-04 |
L | 13,589,679 | 1.00 GB | ed09e330e9530736882859d172c2ffaed1b1de8f1b0f64a7b4d6ef1dac0e35d5 |
Everything in M plus the complete Level 2 who-owns-whom graph: 483k consolidation/branch/fund relationship edges with both endpoints named, per-group rollups (subsidiary counts, multinational spread) and 6.28M official parent reporting exceptions |
Data dictionary & datasheet
Field-level documentation lives in this repo under datasets/ and on the portal page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/global-lei-company-registry-dataset
License
CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer) / commercial license — upstream: GLEIF CC0 1.0
- Academic / personal use: CC BY-NC 4.0 on the DataForge curated layer — attribution + backlink required.
- Commercial use: requires a DataForge commercial license — contact us via the portal.
- Upstream source: GLEIF golden copy: LEI entities + Level 2 relationships + reporting exceptions. Upstream license terms (public domain / CC BY / OGL where applicable) continue to apply to the underlying data.
Citation / attribution
Please credit:
DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from GLEIF CC0 golden-copy data — https://data.zalize.com
For attribution-licensed upstreams keep the upstream credit (PatentsView CC BY 4.0; "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0").
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