Updated September 28, 2026

What is Legal entity?

In short

The company named on the legal notices is the party your contract, complaint and any claim actually point to.

A legal entity is the company a trading brand sits on top of, published on the imprint, in the terms or on a public register. Your agreement, your complaints and any compensation claim all run to that name rather than to the brand you recognise on screen, and a group name and its operating company often differ. 1822direkt, for instance, trades through 1822direkt Gesellschaft der Frankfurter Sparkasse mbH, while Aave operates as Aave Labs.

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