Beneficial ownership

Who really owns African companies

Search a person's name to see the companies they're recorded as controlling, resolved from official beneficial-ownership registers, with a confidence assessment on every connection.

People appear in the main search alongside companies. Coverage currently centres on Nigeria's PSC register and grows as more ownership registers open up.

Most connected people

Resolved individuals recorded across the most companies in the register.

Source: official beneficial-ownership / persons-with-significant-control registers. Connections are resolved from each register's own fields and shown with a confidence assessment, a shared name is never treated as proof of identity or control.