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# List of legal entities

GET https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/legal-entities

Lists the legal entities under the calling organization so an integration can resolve which entity a worker, contract, payroll cycle or invoice belongs to. The ids returned are the legal entity ids other Deel endpoints expect; use the single-entity endpoint when you already hold an id and need the full record.

 **Token scopes**: `organizations:read`, `accounting:read`

Reference: https://developer.deel.com/api/endpoints/legal-entities/get-legal-entities

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — ## Authentication The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail. ```curl curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' ``` [Learn more about authentication](/api/authentication)
- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Standard OAuth2 security scheme based on https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/

## Servers

- `https://api.letsdeel.com/rest` (Production, default)
- `https://api-staging.letsdeel.com/rest` (Demo)

## Request

### Query parameters

- `limit` (integer, optional, default: 100) — The number of results to return per page.
- `sort_order` (enum, optional, default: ASC) — Sorting order of the results.
  - Allowed values: `ASC`, `DESC`
- `cursor` (string, optional) — Cursor for pagination.
- `include_archived` (boolean, optional, default: true) — Whether to include archived legal entities in the results.
- `legal_entity_id` (string, optional) — Filter by specific legal entity ID.
- `global_payroll` (boolean, optional) — Filter by global payroll flag.
- `type` (string, optional) — Filter by entity type.
- `country` (string, optional) — Filter by country.
- `include_payroll_settings` (boolean, optional) — Whether to include payroll settings in the response.

## Response

### 200

Successful operation.

- `data` (list of LegalEntitiesGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaDataItems, optional)
- `page` (LegalEntitiesGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaPage, optional)

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

Operation failed.

- `errors` (list of LegalEntitiesGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaErrorsItems, optional)

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Operation failed.

- `request` (ApiErrorRequest, optional)
- `errors` (list of ApiError, optional)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Operation failed.

- `request` (ApiErrorRequest, optional)
- `errors` (list of ApiError, optional)

### 404 Not Found Error

Operation failed.

- `request` (ApiErrorRequest, optional)
- `errors` (list of ApiError, optional)

### 500 Internal Server Error

Operation failed.

- `request` (ApiErrorRequest, optional)
- `errors` (list of ApiError, optional)

## Types

### LegalEntitiesGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaDataItems

- `id` (string, optional) — Id of the legal entity
- `name` (string, optional) — Name of the legal entity
- `phone` (string, optional, nullable) — Phone number
- `status` (enum, optional) — The mapped legal entity lifecycle status, the same value as on the single legal entity endpoint. Returned only when the feature is enabled for the organization.
  - Allowed values: `archived`, `active`, `draft`, `processing`, `processing_draft`, `pending_verification`, `awaiting_review`, `unknown`
- `vat_id` (string, optional, nullable) — VAT ID
- `address` (LegalEntitiesGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaDataItemsAddress, optional, nullable)
- `country` (string, optional, nullable) — Country of the legal entity
- `created_at` (string, optional) — Created date
- `sic_number` (string, optional, nullable) — SIC Company Identifier
- `updated_at` (string, optional) — Updated date
- `archived_at` (string, optional, nullable) — Archived date
- `entity_type` (enum, optional, nullable) — Entity type
  - Allowed values: `individual`, `company`, `light`
- `industry_name` (string, optional, nullable) — Industry name
- `entity_subtype` (string, optional) — Entity sub type
- `registrationNumber` (string, optional, nullable) — Registration number

### LegalEntitiesGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaPage

- `cursor` (string, optional, nullable) — Cursor link

### LegalEntitiesGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaErrorsItems

- `code` (string, optional) — Error code identifier
- `field` (string, optional) — Name of the field that failed validation
- `details` (LegalEntitiesGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaErrorsItemsDetails, optional) — Additional error details
- `message` (string, optional) — Human-readable error message

### ApiErrorRequest

- `method` (string, optional) — The HTTP method of the failed request
- `url` (string, optional) — The relative URL of the failed request
- `status` (double, optional) — The status code of the response
- `api_req_id` (string, optional) — The request ID of the failed request
- `docs` (string, optional) — A link to the official documentation for the requested endpoint resource
- `source` (string, optional) — The source handler which produced the returned error
- `code` (double, optional) — The code of the source handler which produced the returned error

### ApiError

- `message` (string, optional) — A description of the returned error
- `path` (string, optional) — The JSON path where input validation failed

### LegalEntitiesGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaDataItemsAddress

- `zip` (string, optional, nullable) — Zip code
- `city` (string, optional, nullable) — City
- `state` (string, optional, nullable) — State
- `street` (string, optional, nullable) — Street
- `country` (string, optional, nullable) — Country

### LegalEntitiesGetResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaErrorsItemsDetails

Additional error details

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "b61f6b35-7670-4515-b667-066f02b7b8a0",
      "name": "Deel US",
      "phone": "+137867888",
      "status": "active",
      "vat_id": "P051709055R",
      "address": {
        "zip": "12345",
        "city": "San Francisco",
        "state": "Texas",
        "street": "123 Main St",
        "country": "US"
      },
      "country": "US",
      "created_at": "2024-01-01T12:00:00Z",
      "sic_number": "9072",
      "updated_at": "2024-01-02T12:00:00Z",
      "archived_at": "2024-01-06T12:00:00Z",
      "entity_type": "company",
      "industry_name": "Marketing Agency",
      "entity_subtype": "company",
      "registrationNumber": "GSUGO3B5"
    }
  ],
  "page": {
    "cursor": "cursor123"
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/legal-entities"

querystring = {"country":"US","cursor":"cusorpage123","global_payroll":"false","include_archived":"true","include_payroll_settings":"true","legal_entity_id":"23378","limit":"100","sort_order":"ASC","type":"company"}

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/legal-entities?country=US&cursor=cusorpage123&global_payroll=false&include_archived=true&include_payroll_settings=true&legal_entity_id=23378&limit=100&sort_order=ASC&type=company';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/legal-entities?country=US&cursor=cusorpage123&global_payroll=false&include_archived=true&include_payroll_settings=true&legal_entity_id=23378&limit=100&sort_order=ASC&type=company"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/legal-entities?country=US&cursor=cusorpage123&global_payroll=false&include_archived=true&include_payroll_settings=true&legal_entity_id=23378&limit=100&sort_order=ASC&type=company")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/legal-entities?country=US&cursor=cusorpage123&global_payroll=false&include_archived=true&include_payroll_settings=true&legal_entity_id=23378&limit=100&sort_order=ASC&type=company")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/legal-entities?country=US&cursor=cusorpage123&global_payroll=false&include_archived=true&include_payroll_settings=true&legal_entity_id=23378&limit=100&sort_order=ASC&type=company', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/legal-entities?country=US&cursor=cusorpage123&global_payroll=false&include_archived=true&include_payroll_settings=true&legal_entity_id=23378&limit=100&sort_order=ASC&type=company");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/legal-entities?country=US&cursor=cusorpage123&global_payroll=false&include_archived=true&include_payroll_settings=true&legal_entity_id=23378&limit=100&sort_order=ASC&type=company")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```