What is “SECA”?

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 societe en commandite par actions.

Where it's used

SECA appears in company names registered in the following jurisdiction:

What it tells you about the company

Equivalent forms around the world

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

Normalizing “SECA” in your data

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

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

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