What is “P”?
P stands for Registered Limited Liability Limited Partnership, a limited partnership used primarily in Austria, Switzerland, India. The suffix signals that the business has mixed liability and is privately held.
Full meaning & translation
The full form is Registered Limited Liability Limited Partnership. It translates literally as “registered limited liability limited partnership.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as partenreederei, partnership.
Where it's used
P 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 P in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.
Normalizing “P” in your data
When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme P” 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 P", "country": "at"}'{
"data": {
"canonical": "acme p",
"legal_type": null,
"tokens": [
"acme",
"p"
]
},
"meta": {
"pipeline": [
"lowercase",
"legal_suffix"
],
"confidence": 0.99
}
}Frequently asked questions
What does P stand for?
P stands for Registered Limited Liability Limited Partnership, which translates as "registered limited liability limited partnership".
Is a P public or private?
A P is a private entity — its shares are not publicly listed or traded on a stock exchange.
What is the liability in a P?
Liability in a P is mixed. General partners bear unlimited liability while limited partners are protected up to their capital contribution.
Which countries use P?
P is used in Austria, Switzerland, India, United States.
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