Legal software
In legal practice what matters is who the counterparty is, who may sign for it and whether proceedings are under way against it. All three answers live in public registers – just scattered.
The problem
Verifying signing authority means finding a current Commercial Register extract and reading the manner of acting. It is done by hand, for every contract and every counterparty.
Monitoring whether bankruptcy proceedings have opened against a client or counterparty requires regular review of the journal. At any real case count nobody keeps up.
How FirmAPI solves it
The statutory body and the manner of acting come back as structured fields. From those the software can assemble a signature block automatically, or warn that one director's signature is not enough.
The insolvency register and the Commercial Journal can be monitored via webhooks. Instead of touring registers you get a notification when something happens – for the journal, within days of publication.
For litigation work the change history helps too: when a director or registered office changed is often relevant both to jurisdiction and to service of documents.
GET /v1/company/ico/51636549
{
"data": {
"statutory_body": [
{
"name": "...",
"role": "Managing director",
"acting_method": "Each managing director acts and signs on behalf of the company individually."
}
]
}
}Frequently asked questions
Does this replace an official register extract?
No. For legal acts that require a certified extract you need the official document. FirmAPI serves ongoing checks and automation, not as a substitute for an official instrument.
Do you track court rulings?
Not yet. Slovak courts publish rulings with party names but no company ID, so a ruling cannot be reliably attributed to a specific company. Until such a feed exists we would rather not offer it than match on name and get it wrong.
Try it on your own data
A free account requires no payment card. Our database holds 2 160 466 entities from 48 public registers.