What is “ZAT”?

Full meaning & translation

The full form is Закрытае акцыянернае таварыства, a Belarusian-language term. It translates literally as “Closed joint-stock company.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as zakryte aktsionerne tovarystvo, закрите акціонерне товариство, закрытае акцыянернае таварыства, зат.

Where it's used

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

Normalizing “ZAT” in your data

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

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

Frequently asked questions