# Is there a way to search for a list of companies owned by a person?

**URL:** <https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-a-list-of-companies-owned-by-a-person/192>\
**Category:** Support & Questions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-a-list-of-companies-owned-by-a-person/192 "2025-09-04T03:36:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![innoac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/43a26b/32.png) [@innoac](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/innoac)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-a-list-of-companies-owned-by-a-person/192/1 "2025-09-04T03:36:22Z")

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Dear support, is there a way to search for a list of companies owned by a person?

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**Author:** ![leon.handreke](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex014/user_avatar/discuss.opensanctions.org/leon.handreke/32/38_2.png) [@leon.handreke](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/leon.handreke)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-a-list-of-companies-owned-by-a-person/192/2 "2025-09-04T10:26:05Z")

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Hi there, thanks for reaching out! The easiest way to get at this information is to get the nested version of the entity. For example, using our API:

`GET /entities/NK-aU5ybkbRFJucf8YMwsJvDw ` (that’s Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich Zakharov)

Will give you something like this. The Ownership relations are in `properties.ownershipOwner` (that’s maybe a bit of a weird name, the reason is that it’s all the `Ownership` entities where this entity is the owner.

 ![Screenshot 2025-09-04 at 12.21.31](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex014/uploads/opensanctions/original/1X/e455152ed5612a4f2724b7156291fc8e87080c53.jpeg)

For our bulk data offering, you’ll find the same nested structure in `targets.nested.json`, see [https://www.opensanctions.org/docs/bulk/json/](https://www.opensanctions.org/docs/bulk/json/).

More information on this topic can be found in our [FAQ item “How does the nested format represent entity networks?”](https://www.opensanctions.org/faq/26/nested/)

Hope that helps - just ask away if you have more questions 🙂