Ownership & Capital Structure¶
Summary¶
Ownership and Capital Structure encompasses all aspects of entity ownership, control, and capital. This includes direct and indirect ownership, control relationships, share structures, capital issuances, and corporate actions such as mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, and dividends. Understanding ownership and capital structure is essential for beneficial ownership identification, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and corporate finance.
The Challenge¶
Organizations face significant challenges in ownership and capital structure management:
- Complex ownership structures — Entities may have complex ownership chains with multiple layers and indirect ownership
- Beneficial ownership — Identifying ultimate beneficial owners through complex ownership chains
- Control determination — Determining control relationships beyond simple ownership percentages
- Temporal changes — Ownership and capital structures change through transactions and corporate actions
- Regulatory requirements — Different jurisdictions have different requirements for ownership disclosure and beneficial ownership identification
- Data fragmentation — Ownership information scattered across multiple systems and jurisdictions
- Corporate actions — Tracking complex corporate actions and their impact on ownership and capital
Why EKG is Required¶
Enterprise Knowledge Graphs provide powerful ownership and capital structure management capabilities:
- Ownership modeling — Model complex ownership structures and chains
- Chain traversal — Traverse ownership chains to identify indirect and beneficial ownership
- Control analysis — Analyze control relationships through ownership, voting, and other mechanisms
- Temporal tracking — Track ownership and capital changes over time
- Corporate actions — Model and track corporate actions and their impact on ownership
- Regulatory integration — Link ownership structures to regulatory requirements and compliance obligations
- Network analysis — Understand ownership networks and relationships across entities
Business Value¶
- Regulatory compliance — Meet requirements for ownership disclosure and beneficial ownership identification
- Risk assessment — Assess risk based on ownership structures and relationships
- Due diligence — Support due diligence through comprehensive ownership analysis
- Corporate finance — Support corporate finance decisions through capital structure understanding
- Operational efficiency — Automate ownership tracking and reduce manual management
- Strategic insights — Understand ownership structures and optimization opportunities