What is “SLL”?

Full meaning & translation

The full form is Sociedad Limitada Laboral (o Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada laboral), a Spanish-language term. It translates literally as “Worker-owned limited liability company.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as sociedad de responsabilidad limitada laboral, sociedad limitada laboral.

Where it's used

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

Normalizing “SLL” in your data

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

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

Frequently asked questions