Hong Kong company records

GLEIF · LEI register

Source: Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), LEI Golden Copy, CC0 1.0; filtered and reformatted by CorporateDB.

Licence

CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication ↗

Changes

Selected fields are reformatted into CorporateDB's schema and statuses are mapped to its status vocabulary. Sole proprietors are withheld, by GLEIF entity category and by the sole-trader legal forms in GLEIF's ISO 20275 entity legal form code list. General entities whose legal form is given only as free text (codes 8888 and 9999) are withheld unless the text is a reviewed corporate form. ISINs from the GLEIF and ANNA ISIN-to-LEI relationship file (the first 100 in ISIN order, with the total count) and BICs from the SWIFT BIC-to-LEI relationship file (the first 100, with the total count) are added as identifiers.

Dates

The edition date is the Golden Copy publication date. Each record's update time is the last update date of its LEI record. ISIN and BIC identifiers come from the latest relationship files GLEIF published by that date; each record names the BIC mapping table version it used.

Companies Registry of Hong Kong, weekly lists of new and renamed companies

Source: Companies Registry, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, List of Newly Incorporated / Registered / Re-domiciled Companies and Companies which have changed Names, via DATA.GOV.HK. The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region owns the intellectual property rights in the data. Merged and reformatted by CorporateDB.

Licence

DATA.GOV.HK Terms and Conditions of Use, version 1.2 (26 May 2025): free download, distribution and reproduction for commercial and non-commercial purposes, with the source identified and attributed ↗ Terms of use ↗ Catalogue data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-cr-crdata-list-newly-registered-companies-2324 ↗Catalogue data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-cr-crdata-list-newly-registered-companies-2526 ↗

Changes

Selected fields are reformatted into CorporateDB's schema. The Companies Registry's weekly lists from the week of 25 December 2023, the first to number companies by their Unique Business Identifier, are merged into one record per identifier: the newest list naming a company gives its current English and Chinese names, and the names earlier lists gave it are kept as former names. A non-Hong Kong company's corporate names, listed one per row, are joined into one record. The lists publish no company type, address, officers or status, so none is shown; the legal form is the list the company appears in. Limited partnerships, which are usually named after their partners, are left out, and so are the unregistered companies, such as incorporated owners of buildings, that the lists number with a UC identifier.

Dates

The edition date is the last day of the week covered by the newest weekly list; each list covers Monday to Sunday and is published a few days later. A local company's date is its date of incorporation in lists headed "Date of Incorporation". Lists headed "Date of Incorporation / Re-domiciliation Date" do not say which it is, so that date is shown as the date the company was incorporated or re-domiciled in Hong Kong and never as its incorporation date. A non-Hong Kong company's date is the date it registered in Hong Kong. Name change dates are the register's own. The lists never report a dissolution, deregistration or striking off, so a company that has since ceased is still shown, and its status is not supplied.