What is “SLP”?

Full meaning & translation

The full form is Société en libre partenariat, a French-language term. It translates literally as “Partnership in free association.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as separate limited partnership.

Where it's used

SLP appears in company names registered in the following 2 jurisdictions:

What it tells you about the company

Equivalent forms around the world

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

Normalizing “SLP” in your data

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

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

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