> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.paywise.de/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # List legal forms > Return the authenticated, tenant-independent public catalog. `representative_requirements` are the roles company readiness requires for a company with the legal form, in the `legal_representatives[].type` vocabulary. They can differ from the Case Management API's debtor catalog. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-docs/partner-api/openapi.json get /partner/v2/legal-forms/ openapi: 3.0.3 info: description: >- Onboard and manage companies and their memberships through the current API at the `/partner/v2/` HTTP path. title: paywise Partner API version: current servers: - description: Production environment url: https://api.paywise.de - description: Sandbox environment url: https://api-sandbox.paywise.de security: [] tags: - description: Client companies managed by the partner. name: Companies - description: Memberships and invitations of a managed company. name: Company users - description: Webhook endpoints and their signing secrets. name: Webhooks - description: Delivery log and redelivery of webhook events. name: Webhook deliveries - description: Ordered feed of the events webhooks deliver. name: Events - description: Reference catalog of legal forms. name: Legal forms - description: The authenticated credential and API availability. name: Meta - description: Rate-limit headroom of the credential. name: Usage externalDocs: url: https://docs.paywise.de/api-docs/partner-api/introduction paths: /partner/v2/legal-forms/: get: tags: - Legal forms summary: List legal forms description: >- Return the authenticated, tenant-independent public catalog. `representative_requirements` are the roles company readiness requires for a company with the legal form, in the `legal_representatives[].type` vocabulary. They can differ from the Case Management API's debtor catalog. operationId: list-legal-forms parameters: - description: >- Return 304 with an empty body when the current `ETag` matches one of the supplied validators (or `*`). in: header name: If-None-Match required: false schema: type: string responses: '200': content: application/json: schema: items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/LegalFormCatalog' type: array description: '' headers: Cache-Control: description: >- Cacheability directive. Authenticated responses use `private, no-store`; the legal-form catalog may use `private, max-age=86400`. schema: type: string ETag: description: >- Strong validator of this representation. Send it back as `If-None-Match` to skip an unchanged re-read (304) or as `If-Match` on PATCH/PUT/DELETE to fail with 412 when the resource changed. schema: type: string X-Paywise-Environment: description: Environment that produced the response. schema: enum: - production - sandbox type: string X-Paywise-Request-Id: description: >- Fresh server-assigned correlation id for this response. Caller-provided request ids are ignored. schema: format: uuid type: string '304': description: 'Not modified: the `If-None-Match` validator still matches.' headers: Cache-Control: description: >- Cacheability directive. Authenticated responses use `private, no-store`; the legal-form catalog may use `private, max-age=86400`. schema: type: string X-Paywise-Environment: description: Environment that produced the response. schema: enum: - production - sandbox type: string X-Paywise-Request-Id: description: >- Fresh server-assigned correlation id for this response. Caller-provided request ids are ignored. schema: format: uuid type: string '401': content: application/json: examples: authentication-error: value: code: not_authenticated detail: Authentication credentials were not provided. schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Standard error response. headers: Cache-Control: description: >- Cacheability directive. Authenticated responses use `private, no-store`; the legal-form catalog may use `private, max-age=86400`. schema: type: string X-Paywise-Environment: description: Environment that produced the response. schema: enum: - production - sandbox type: string X-Paywise-Request-Id: description: >- Fresh server-assigned correlation id for this response. Caller-provided request ids are ignored. schema: format: uuid type: string '403': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Standard error response. headers: Cache-Control: description: >- Cacheability directive. Authenticated responses use `private, no-store`; the legal-form catalog may use `private, max-age=86400`. schema: type: string X-Paywise-Environment: description: Environment that produced the response. schema: enum: - production - sandbox type: string X-Paywise-Request-Id: description: >- Fresh server-assigned correlation id for this response. Caller-provided request ids are ignored. schema: format: uuid type: string '429': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Standard error response. headers: Cache-Control: description: >- Cacheability directive. Authenticated responses use `private, no-store`; the legal-form catalog may use `private, max-age=86400`. schema: type: string Retry-After: description: Integer seconds to wait before retrying a throttled request. schema: minimum: 1 type: integer X-Paywise-Environment: description: Environment that produced the response. schema: enum: - production - sandbox type: string X-Paywise-Request-Id: description: >- Fresh server-assigned correlation id for this response. Caller-provided request ids are ignored. schema: format: uuid type: string '500': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Standard error response. headers: Cache-Control: description: >- Cacheability directive. Authenticated responses use `private, no-store`; the legal-form catalog may use `private, max-age=86400`. schema: type: string X-Paywise-Environment: description: Environment that produced the response. schema: enum: - production - sandbox type: string X-Paywise-Request-Id: description: >- Fresh server-assigned correlation id for this response. Caller-provided request ids are ignored. schema: format: uuid type: string security: - partnerBearerAuth: [] components: schemas: LegalFormCatalog: properties: code: description: Permanent code used when submitting this legal form. pattern: ^[-a-zA-Z0-9_]+$ readOnly: true type: string description: description: Short explanation of the legal form. readOnly: true type: string group: description: Legal-form family used to determine representation rules. readOnly: true type: string label: description: Display name of the legal form. readOnly: true type: string representative_requirements: description: >- Representative roles required for this legal form: legal_representatives[].role values of a debtor in the Case Management API, legal_representatives[].type values of a company in the Partner API. items: type: string readOnly: true type: array required: - code - description - group - label - representative_requirements type: object Error: properties: code: description: Machine-readable error category. type: string detail: description: Short human-readable summary of the error. type: string errors: description: Field-level validation errors, when applicable. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorItem' type: array required: - detail - code type: object ErrorItem: properties: code: description: Machine-readable field error code. type: string field: description: >- Path to the field that caused the error, using dots for objects and brackets for list indexes, for example `claims[0].amount`; null for an error without a field path. nullable: true type: string message: description: Human-readable explanation of the field error. type: string required: - field - code - message type: object securitySchemes: partnerBearerAuth: description: >- Partner API Bearer key: `Authorization: Bearer `. Keys are created only through authorized portal or staff flows. scheme: bearer type: http ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.