What is “EIRL”?

Full meaning & translation

The full form is Empresa Individual de Responsabilidad Limitada, a Spanish-language term. It translates literally as “Individual enterprise with limited liability.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as empresa individual de responsabilidad limitada, entreprise en nom personnel, entreprise individuelle.

Where it's used

EIRL appears in company names registered in the following 4 jurisdictions:

What it tells you about the company

Equivalent forms around the world

These are the closest structural equivalents to EIRL in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.

Normalizing “EIRL” in your data

When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme EIRL” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:

curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "Acme EIRL", "country": "cl"}'

{
  "data": {
    "canonical": "acme eirl",
    "legal_type": null,
    "tokens": [
      "acme",
      "eirl"
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "pipeline": [
      "lowercase",
      "legal_suffix"
    ],
    "confidence": 0.99
  }
}

Frequently asked questions