Get a company by ACN, ABN, ARBN or ARSN

Get a company

This endpoint returns the ASIC register record for a company, registered Australian body, foreign company or managed investment scheme: its name and former names, ACN and ABN, type, class and status, registration and review dates, state of registration and deregistration details. It is a free lookup of ASIC's organisation details and is not an extract, so meta.billable is always false. Use it to confirm that an ACN exists and is registered, to resolve an ABN to a company, or to decide which extract to purchase.

Path parameters

This endpoint takes no query parameters.

Example request

curl https://api.asicapi.dev/v1/companies/004085616 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASICAPI_KEY"

Example response

{
  "object": "company",
  "id": "004085616",
  "acn": "004085616",
  "formatted": "004 085 616",
  "numberType": { "code": "ACN", "label": "Australian Company Number" },
  "abn": "53004085616",
  "name": "ACME WIDGETS PTY LTD",
  "nameStartDate": "2004-03-12",
  "type": { "code": "APTY", "label": "Australian Proprietary Company" },
  "class": { "code": "LMSH", "label": "Limited By Shares" },
  "subClass": { "code": "PROP", "label": "Proprietary Company" },
  "status": { "code": "REGD", "label": "Registered" },
  "registrationDate": "1948-07-06",
  "reviewDate": "2026-07-06",
  "deregistration": null,
  "stateOfRegistration": { "code": "VIC", "label": "Victoria" },
  "placeOfRegistration": "VICTORIA",
  "previousStateNumber": "C0123456X",
  "controllingJurisdiction": { "code": "ASIC", "label": "Australian Securities and Investments Commission" },
  "governanceType": null,
  "disclosingEntity": false,
  "registeredCharity": false,
  "principalPlace": { "locality": "MELBOURNE", "state": "VIC", "postcode": "3000" },
  "formerNames": [
    {
      "name": "ACME WIDGET COMPANY PTY LTD",
      "from": "1948-07-06",
      "to": "2004-03-12",
      "sourceDocument": { "documentNumber": "0E1122334", "qualifier": null }
    }
  ],
  "schemeCategories": [],
  "satisfiedChargesExtractSize": "small",
  "meta": { "billable": false, "product": null, "requestId": "req_01J8ZK3V7Q0M2X" }
}

Response fields

Name reservation response

When {id} is the ASIC identifier of a name reservation (type RSVN in search results, identifier beginning with * or +), the response is a nameReservation object instead of a company:

{
  "object": "nameReservation",
  "id": "*00123456",
  "name": "ACME WIDGETS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD",
  "documentNumber": "3E4455667",
  "status": { "code": "REGD", "label": "Registered" },
  "formCode": "410",
  "from": "2025-08-01",
  "to": "2025-10-01",
  "applicantName": "SMITH, JANE LOUISE",
  "intendedType": { "code": "APTY", "label": "Australian Proprietary Company" },
  "intendedClass": { "code": "LMSH", "label": "Limited By Shares" },
  "meta": { "billable": false, "product": null, "requestId": "req_01J8ZK5E6F7G8H" }
}

Name reservations have no office holders, addresses or document list, and no extract can be purchased for them.

Errors

Notes from the ASIC register

• Details versus extract. This endpoint reads ASIC's organisation details and is free. Office holders, addresses, share capital, members, charges, annual returns and financial reports are only produced by ASIC as part of an extract under section 1274A of the Corporations Act 2001, which you buy with POST /v1/companies/{id}/extracts. The document list is also free.
• Current and historical. A current extract contains current records only. A historical extract adds ceased office holders, former addresses, ceased share classes, former members, satisfied charges, annual returns and financial reports. Charges are never included in a current extract.
• Organisation types. ASIC issues extracts for Australian proprietary and public companies (APTY, APUB), registrable Australian bodies (RACN), foreign companies (FNOS) and managed investment schemes (MISM). For other types this record is all ASIC provides.
• Registered Australian bodies. For type RACN, ASIC prints: The Corporations Act 2001 requires only that limited information be lodged for Registered Australian Bodies and it is recommended that a search be also conducted with the appropriate authority in its place of registration.
• External administration. When status is EXAD, ASIC directs the reader to the documents relating to external administration and appointment of a controller for information about the status. Those documents and the appointees are part of an extract; see external administration.
• Deregistration and cancellation. Most deregistrations since 1991 carry a coded reason such as S601AB (ASIC-initiated deregistration) or S601AA (voluntary deregistration). Where the code is not in ASIC's table the reason is shown as deregistered. When status is CNCL the deregistration.date is a cancellation date.
• Managed investment schemes. For a scheme (numberType ARSN) read "organisation" as "scheme". class, subClass and disclosingEntity are not applicable, previousStateNumber holds the prescribed interest number, placeOfRegistration holds the undertaking name, and schemeCategories lists the scheme's categories. See managed investment schemes.
• Governance type. Only public companies have a governance type: a constitution or the replaceable rules in the Corporations Act.
• Registered charities. When registeredCharity is true, ASIC requires the following notice to be shown: Registered Charity. This company is registered as a charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC). For further information on the charity, including the address for service, details of responsible persons (for example company directors) and financial reports, search the Charities register at www.acnc.gov.au.
• ABN lookups. ASIC receives ABNs from the Australian Business Register. Only ACN based ABNs (where the last nine digits are the ACN) can be resolved to a company.

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