What is “SCA”?

Full meaning & translation

The full form is Société en commandite par actions, a French-language term. It translates literally as “Partnership limited by shares.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as comandita por acciones, comandita por acciones de cv, comm va, commanditaire vennootschap op aandelen.

Where it's used

SCA appears in company names registered in the following 16 jurisdictions:

What it tells you about the company

Equivalent forms around the world

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

Normalizing “SCA” in your data

When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme SCA” 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 SCA", "country": "ao"}'

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

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