Hong Kong SAR — HK CR Lookup

Live, direct-to-government access to 公司註冊處 / Companies Registry of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Single-country variant of the cross-border Cross-Border UBO Chain Walker. Use this skill when the user is explicitly focused on Hong Kong SAR.

What you get

• Direct query to HK CR. Every tool call hits 公司註冊處 / Companies Registry of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region at the moment you ask. No nightly scrape, no aggregator middle layer.
• Unmodified responses. Field names, status codes, and (where available) raw filing bytes are returned exactly as the registry's own system emits them.
• Native ID format support. Hong Kong CR number — 7 digits, sometimes prefixed (e.g. 0066011 HSBC Holdings plc HK branch).
• Sample entity: HSBC Holdings plc (HK branch).

Available tools (jurisdiction = HK)

search_companies, get_company_profile

For every tool, pass jurisdiction: "HK" (case-insensitive).

Example prompts

Look up HSBC Holdings plc's HK branch

Confirm the legal status of Tencent (HK) Holdings Limited

Find Alibaba Group's Hong Kong incorporated entity

Workflow

Step 1 — Resolve the entity

search_companies({ jurisdiction: "HK", query: "<name or ID>" })
get_company_profile({ jurisdiction: "HK", company_id: "<id>" })

Step 2 — Pull the relevant register slice

Pick from the available tools list above. For UBO walks across borders, return to the Cross-Border UBO Chain Walker.

Quirks specific to Hong Kong SAR

• Hong Kong's open data covers basic company status only; full filings (Annual Return NAR1, officer changes) are paid via CR Cyber Search Centre.
• Hong Kong's Significant Controllers Register (SCR) is not publicly accessible — only viewable on-site by AML-obliged entities.
• Hong Kong is a major holding-company jurisdiction in Asia — note Hong Kong Ltd vs. Foreign Company (registered under Part 16 of CO).
• Two language registries — Chinese (Traditional) and English; both names appear.

Provenance

• Registry: 公司註冊處 / Companies Registry of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• Government URL: <https://www.cr.gov.hk/>
• OpenRegistry jurisdiction code: HK
• Underlying MCP server: https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/mcp

See also

• KYC & Cross-Border Due Diligence — full statutory dossier across multiple jurisdictions
• Cross-Border UBO Chain Walker — flagship multi-jurisdiction UBO trace
• Director Search & PEP Screening — find every company a person has run

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