Companies
Ownership traced upward through holding structures to the people who really hold it. Those people are then screened, and their other companies examined. For acquisitions, supplier onboarding, distribution and investment.
The decision this serves
A company register tells you who is formally registered. It does not tell you who ends up holding the economic interest once a holding company owns a holding company. That is the question every sanctions, procurement and AML obligation actually turns on.
A single-layer check reads a holding company as the owner and stops. Previo does not stop there.
What runs
Registration status and filing history, and the structural signals that carry meaning on their own: insolvency, compulsory dissolution, strike-off, and the absence of any currently registered owner. That absence is a finding in itself rather than a blank.
The company screened against the consolidated OFAC, UN, UK OFSI and EU lists, with weak matches surfaced for a reviewer rather than resolved in silence.
Published reporting against the company in English and Danish, dated by the underlying event and discounted where the match to the entity is weak.
The chain is walked upward through holding companies until it reaches natural persons, with stakes multiplied along the way. A third of a holding company that wholly owns the subject reads as a third of the subject, and that is the number your obligations actually attach to.
Owners, beneficial owners and directors screened in turn, up to ten of them, prioritised by control rather than by title, and one bounded step out into the other companies they run.
What we search
| Source | What it establishes | Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Company register | Registration status, officers, and the registered ownership layer | UK, Denmark |
| Ownership chain | The natural persons at the top of a holding structure, with stakes multiplied through the chain | Denmark |
| Sanctions & watchlists | The entity and every screened person against the consolidated lists | OFAC, UN, UK OFSI, EU |
| Adverse media | Published reporting against the entity and against every screened person | Several engines, EN and DA |
| Director disqualifications | Disqualification records against screened officers | UK |
| Business network | The other companies a screened person is connected to, one step out | UK, Denmark |
How the output reads
A company is scored on a flat scale, because it has no seniority to adjust for. Its own registration status is the dominant signal; findings against the people behind it are weighted by how close they sit to control.
No material findings against the entity or the people behind it.
Findings that warrant a conversation before contracting.
Insolvency, compulsory dissolution, a sanctions match, or serious regulatory action.