What is “SECS”?

Full meaning & translation

The full form is Société en commandite simple, a French-language term. It translates literally as “Simple limited partnership.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as societe en commandite simple.

Where it's used

SECS 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 SECS in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.

Normalizing “SECS” in your data

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

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

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