Create a new legal entity | Deel

Creates a new legal entity under the organization and returns the entity record including its assigned id.

Token scopes: legal-entity:write

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Authentication

The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail.

$ curl -X GET 'https://api.deel.training/rest/v2/contracts' \
>   -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'

Learn more about authentication

## Authentication The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail. ```curl curl -X GET 'https://api.deel.training/rest/v2/contracts' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' ``` [Learn more about authentication](/api/authentication)

AuthorizationBearer

Standard OAuth2 security scheme based on https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

dataobjectOptional

Response

Successfully created legal entity.

dataobject

Errors

400

Bad Request Error

401

Unauthorized Error

403

Forbidden Error

404

Not Found Error

500

Internal Server Error

$	curl -X POST https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/rest/legal-entities \
>	-H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
>	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>	-d '{}'

1	{
2	"data": {
3	"id": "le_12345",
4	"name": "Acme Corporation",
5	"phone": "+1-800-555-0199",
6	"address": {
7	"zip": "12345",
8	"city": "San Francisco",
9	"state": "Texas",
10	"street": "123 Main St",
11	"country": "US"
12	},
13	"created_at": "2024-01-01T12:00:00Z",
14	"sic_number": "1234",
15	"updated_at": "2024-01-02T12:00:00Z",
16	"entity_type": "LLC",
17	"deel_industry_subcategory_id": "8174a182-16fb-41a2-8d07-c28d01f0d611"
18	}
19	}

$	curl -X GET 'https://api.deel.training/rest/v2/contracts' \
>	-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'