Information about Naamloze Vennootschap

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Limited company (By shares · By guarantee) (Public · Proprietary)
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De facto corporation and corporation by estoppel
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Contract · Civil procedure

Naamloze Vennootschap (usually abbreviated NV) is the Dutch terminology for a public limited liability corporation. The company is owned by shareholders, and the company's shares are not registered to certain owners, so that they may be traded on the public stock market.

The phrase literally means "nameless partnership" and comes from the fact that the partners (the shareholders) are not directly known. This is in contrast to the term for a private limited company, which is called Besloten Vennootschap ("secluded partnership").

The Naamloze Vennootschap is a legal entity in The Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, The Netherlands Antilles, and Indonesia, although in Indonesia the Indonesian translation Perseroan Terbatas (PT) is more commonly used.

See also

• Types of companies
• Types of corporations
• Public limited company (the corresponding concept in the UK and in Ireland)
• S. A. (the corresponding concept in France, Spain and other Romanic countries)
• Aktiengesellschaft (the corresponding concept in Germany)
• Aktieselskab (the corresponding concept in Denmark)
• Aktiebolag (the corresponding concept in Sweden)
• Osakeyhtiö (the corresponding concept in Finland)
• Societas Europaea (for the corresponding concept for European companies in the European Union)