Every shareholder, their exact percentage of share capital, and the filing it came from. Structured from Gesellschafterlisten filed to the Handelsregister, across 2 million German companies.

Find it on the Ownership tab of any German limited company.

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What's next

This is just the start! Corporate shareholders linked through to their Beauhurst profiles, historical cap tables with changes highlighted between filings, and then search and filtering by shareholder characteristics.

Interested in international data?

If you'd like to find out more about this dataset, our German coverage, or other markets, I'd love to hear from you:  Email Chynna

We are now analysing Person of Significant control filings to find the signal amongst the noise and identify acquisitions that never make the press. Only 15% of these filings represent true acquisitions and our team of expert data curators review every one to produce the clearest picture of UK acquisitions.

Sell-side M&A - Get richer potential buyer lists based on actual acquisition behaviour.
Wealth managers - Spot exit events no one else sees and gain new potential HNW clients before competitors know to look.
Client monitoring - Know about ownership changes immediately.
Due diligence - Gain a faster understanding of corporate structure changes vs. waiting for yearly confirmation statements.
Public sector - Improve your impact reporting.
Recruiters - Earlier insight into acquisition events for headhunting.
Sales teams - Trigger events (insurance, consultancy, change management) that no one else is chasing yet.

Beauhurst has lifted the lid on the unannounced acquisition space which makes up 40% of all UK deals.

Discover them now.

From today, any confirmed but not-yet-completed acquisition, fundraising, MBO/MBI, grant, spin-out, or IPO will be published the moment we discover them rather than just upon completion. That means earlier visibility, stronger pipelines, faster BD, and fewer “why didn’t we see this sooner?” moments.

• Completed – closed deals
• Pending – confirmed but not yet completed
• Dormant – no activity for 12+ months
• Cancelled – confirmed to have fallen through.

You'll find Pending, Dormant, and Cancelled deals in:

• Advanced Search
• Company Profiles → Transaction and Timeline tabs
• Collection Activity Alerts.

It’s a small change with a big impact: you’ll now catch deals weeks earlier than before.

If you want a walkthrough or example workflows, contact your account manager, or check them out for yourself with this example Advanced Search.

Spot Germany’s most innovative companies with our expanded patent coverage.

Our expanded patent add-on now allows you to discover every German company with a granted patent. Search over 1.4 million patents across 63 thousand German companies — all sourced directly from the European Patent Office — and be the first to uncover breakthrough innovation in Germany.

Discover top innovators

Use patent classifications and titles to explore innovation across verticals. Layer on our proprietary Industries to dig even deeper and discover the primary innovators within any sector.

Uncover international activity

See which countries a company has secured patent protection in to understand their commercial ambitions abroad before they even begin operating in those countries.

Be the first to know

Set up a Collection to be alerted to German companies within your market securing patent protection — straight into your inbox.

Already have the patent add-on?

Then you’re good to go — you can access German patents immediately. Just navigate to True Companies on Advanced Search, and use our patent search to discover innovative German companies.

Interested in German patent coverage?

Speak to your account manager today!

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We’re now identifying around 75% more acquisitions every month — including much stronger coverage of PE buyouts.

What’s new?

1. Identify all acquisitions announced in the press — even if the company hasn’t hit another Signal
2. We continue to identify and track companies post-acquisition — we’ve lifted our general “ceased tracking” rule
3. Backfilled timelines — we’ve added historic acquisitions for previously ceased tracking companies

Why it matters

Acquisitions are powerful triggers. More coverage means you can:

• Find companies undergoing strategic change.
• Find people making pivotal career moves.
• Win opportunities at exactly the right moment.
• Monitor portfolios for exits or buy-side trends.
• Report impact through successful M&A and PE Buyout activity

We’re not just adding more acquisitions — we’re combining them with rich company data to help you move faster, spot opportunities, and stay ahead.

Get started

Looking for any company that has acquired or been acquired? 

Head to Advanced Search and filter using Signals:

Looking for recent acquisitions? 

Search acquisitions in the last 2 months, layered with industries relevant to you. Here's an example:

Looking for PE buyouts? 

Search for acquisitions that are PE buyouts. Here’s an example:

There's more to come — we’re growing our acquisition data even further. Want to help shape what’s next? Let’s talk.

One searchable database, two countries, unlimited opportunities

We’ve been covering 2.8 million active German businesses for a few months now. With this new update, we’ve expanded our datasets with more transactions, events, and industry classifications. Plus, our new search experience makes finding and verifying your next German opportunity even easier.

What’s New?

Seamless Insights Across UK & Germany

Discover UK and German businesses side by side in our new True Companies search. No need to switch between searches - everything you need is in one place. More updates to this experience are coming soon, so stay tuned 👀

Stay on Top of Key Company Events

Explore over 4,000 German companies with significant events & fundraisings. Helping you to uncover new German opportunities and track industry activity. With this update, we now cover the following events:

We’ve added industry classifications to 1.5 million German companies. That’s over 1 million more since our last update in November. Whether you want to find businesses in manufacturing, or understand growth patterns in insurance - industries make it easier to find the businesses that matter to you.

Refined Location Searches

Drill down beyond cities with new regional search options, helping you discover companies in key business areas. Search for companies within a German state, district, municipality or the specific postal code.

Start exploring now and see what our enhanced German data can do for you!
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Introducing ✨ News Topics ✨, a new and real-time way of identifying key non-transaction events in a company's timeline.

Using a new ML model, we're reading and extracting key information from news articles and tagging them with our new Topic labels. Our first three Topics are:

• Key people change
• New product or service
• New property

Topics are also searchable in Advanced Search! You can discover and create Collections for new opportunities for when a company has been mentioned in the news for one of the above.

Advanced Search company criteria: Significant events > News coverage > News topics

Discover key moments in a company's journey quicker than ever before, for example, identifying the appointment of a key person before it's officially filed and published on the platform via our traditional data flow under 'Person added'.

Jump into the Timeline tab on Company Pages now and discover key moments mentioned in News articles you may have missed!

We’ve expanded our Signals, adding two brand new “exit” Signals and increasing our environmental Signal coverage by over 5k companies.

Exit signals 🚪

Our two new exit Signals, “Acquired” and “IPO”, cover over 13k companies and allow you to easily see and search for companies that have successfully exited.

• Acquired - use this Signal to find companies that have undergone a corporate acquisition or been bought out by a fund or business angel.
• IPO - use this Signal to discover companies that have listed on a stock exchange via an initial public offering.

Combined, these two Signals cover nearly every exit event for every company in our database, providing new insights into the most successful businesses.

Environmental expansion 🌳

We’ve also grown our environmental Signal coverage to over 45k companies, providing even more insight into the burgeoning green economy.

As part of this expansion, we’ve launched a new buzzword for “Carbon capture”, allowing you to hone in on even more granular areas of the net zero space.

Explore carbon capture

There are loads of ways in which you can use this data. For example, if you’re not interested in public companies you can use the IPO Signal to easily exclude them from your results. 

Alternatively, you can use the Exit Signals alongside our Equity fundraising Signal to quickly find equity-backed business that have gone on to successfully exit. Click the button below to try it out!

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Introducing Beauhurst News!

• 1000 news articles on UK companies per day
• Over 1000 companies tagged with events per day
• News articles live on the platform within 6 hours of publication.

Keep up to date with every key moment in a company's timeline and stay on top of the UK's private business economy, with News alerts switched on for your Collection updates.

We’re excited to announce a major expansion to our German data. Thanks to your insights and feedback, we’ve added powerful new data to help you dive deeper into Germany’s private companies. From discovering new businesses to identifying growth trends, these updates are designed to enhance your research and decision-making.

Today, we’re launching:

• Hundreds of thousands of company websites and descriptions to help you understand German companies quicker and easier 🧠
• Industry classifications on over half a million German companies, to help you find your niche 🔍
• Data on nearly 1000 German fundraisings (and counting) to help you identify growing companies in Germany - and the funds that back them 📈

Want to find new German opportunities? Head to Advanced Search and use our range of criteria to refine your search.

Already have a company in mind? Type the name into the search bar at the top of the platform to find a profile.

And we’re not stopping there. Watch this space as we improve our coverage over the coming months 👀