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Deel: ownership, group and the Rippling litigation

Deel, Inc. and its group companies

Deel, Inc. is a Delaware corporation created on 3 July 2017 as Lifeslice, Inc., with a San Francisco address that it says it uses only for mail. Registers show it as owner of subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Norway, Estonia, Denmark and Spain, with Alex Bouaziz as director or registered controller of most of them; its UK affiliate LETS DEEL LTD reported 2,758 employees for 2024. In October 2025 Deel acquired the UK employer-of-record provider Omnipresent. Some links, such as those to the Irish companies bearing the Deel name, are not established in the retained records.

published
17 oct 2026
records as of
13 oct 2026
entities
117
sources
114
cite entities.csv

the questionWhat is Deel, Inc., and which companies make up its group?

1Deel, Inc.

analysisThe SEC's EDGAR record for Central Index Key 0001813695 is in the name of Deel, Inc., a Delaware corporation with a 31 December fiscal year end and no listed tickers. Its Legal Entity Identifier record (LEI 549300IFGBDZQE2NZG16, active and fully corroborated) gives Delaware registration number 6465099, a creation date of 3 July 2017, a legal address care of VCORP Services, LLC in Wilmington, a headquarters address at 425 1st Street, San Francisco, and LIFESLICE as a trading name; it also lists the SWIFT code DEELUS66XXX. Deel's Form D notices name Lifeslice, Inc. as its previous name and give 2017 as the year of incorporation. 1 2 3 4

analysisIn its SEC filings Deel's business and mailing address is 425 First Street #1502, San Francisco, also given for each named director and officer. In its amended Delaware complaint of June 2025 Deel said it maintains no office or physical presence there, uses the address only for mail and was moving its listed principal place of business to Florida or Texas; Rippling's complaint notes that Deel had made the same point in its forum motion. Deel's SEC filing history consists of eight Form D notices between June 2020 and December 2024, and it files no periodic reports. 1 5

analysisThe Alabama Secretary of State records Deel, Inc. as a foreign corporation formed in Delaware on 3 July 2017 and qualified in Alabama on 19 January 2023, with C T Corporation System as its current registered agent after changes in 2026; a company-data aggregator also lists branch registrations in Maine, Kansas and New Mexico, which are known only from the aggregator. A trademark-data site reproducing USPTO records shows that Deel applied on 22 July 2020 to register the DEEL mark for payroll, payment and card services, claiming first use on 30 April 2019; the application's later status is not in the retained record. 6 7 8

sources in this section

  1. SEC EDGAR submissions record for Deel, Inc. (CIK 0001813695) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
  2. GLEIF LEI record 549300IFGBDZQE2NZG16 (Deel, Inc.) Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation · 12 Oct 2026
  3. Deel, Inc. Form D notice of exempt offering (2024) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · 2024
  4. Deel, Inc. Form D notice of exempt offering (2020) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · 2020
  5. Court record source · src-071 identified by category only · Court record
  6. Alabama Secretary of State entity record for Deel, Inc. (001058629) Alabama Secretary of State
  7. Corporate registry source · src-007 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  8. Regulatory record source · src-041 identified by category only · Regulatory record

2United Kingdom

analysisLETS DEEL LTD (company 11894259) is Deel's main UK affiliate. Companies House lists Alexandre Bouaziz as a director from 20 March to 1 October 2019 and again from 10 October 2019, Gabriella Ada Barnard from 1 October 2019 to 1 June 2022 and Philippe Bouaziz from 1 June 2022. Its register of persons with significant control records Deel Inc. as holding 75% or more of the shares from 18 August 2020 until 27 February 2026, when that status ceased, and Alexandre Bouaziz as a person with significant influence or control since 20 March 2019. The register records no new corporate shareholder, and the reason for the cessation is not stated in the retained filings. The filing history then shows a move of its registered office to Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London on 6 March 2026 and a confirmation statement with no updates on 19 March 2026. 1 2 3

analysisUntil 20 October 2022 the company's registered office was at Prodware House, Waterfold Business Park, Bury, which was also Alexandre Bouaziz's correspondence address during his first term as director; the building's name does not by itself show that Prodware SA, Philippe Bouaziz's French company, occupied it. Compulsory strike-off action was discontinued on 11 March 2025, the day after the company filed its accounts for 2023. Its unaudited 2024 accounts, filed under the small-companies regime without a profit and loss account, show cash of £22,274,251, creditors due within one year of £20,449,303, net assets of £100,207 and an average of 2,758 employees, and name Deel Inc as ultimate controlling party. 3 4

analysisA second UK company, DEEL SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS (UK) LTD (company 15878154), records Alexandre Bouaziz since 5 August 2024 as its only active person with significant control, with the right to appoint or remove directors. Deel's UK payment company is described on the page on payment entities. 5

3Norway and Denmark

analysisThe Norwegian register lists DEEL NORWAY AS (organisation number 925 270 253), founded on 9 June 2020 as INCEPTUM 1275 AS, providing IT services for personnel and payroll, with BDO AS as auditor, Anda Gütmane as general manager and Alexandre Bouaziz as chair with sole signature rights; an aggregator gives its address care of Escalon Services Norway AS in Oslo and dates his directorship from 27 January 2022. Shareholder data reproduced by business-information sites show Deel Inc as sole shareholder at 31 December 2025, and its reported 2025 accounts show operating revenue of NOK 289.8 million and profit before tax of NOK 432,000. 1 2 3 4 5

analysisDanish registry data reproduced by business-information sites show Deel Denmark ApS (CVR 42376914), registered on 27 April 2021 as a staffing-agency company founded by Deel, Inc., with 519 employees and Alexandre Bouaziz as director; it reported gross profit of DKK 412.6 million and a net profit of DKK 203,000 for 2025. Deel Solutions ApS (CVR 43974610), started on 11 April 2023 at the same Søborg address, is recorded as founded and wholly owned by Deel, Inc. with Bouaziz as director, and reported a small loss for 2025. 6 7 8 9 10

sources in this section

  1. Brønnøysund register entry: DEEL NORWAY AS (925270253) Brønnøysund Register Centre
  2. Research source · src-088 identified by category only · Research
  3. Corporate registry source · src-092 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  4. Corporate registry source · src-103 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  5. Corporate registry source · src-022 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  6. Corporate registry source · src-050 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  7. Corporate registry source · src-113 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  8. Danish Central Business Register record: Deel Solutions ApS (43974610) Danish Business Authority (CVR)
  9. Corporate registry source · src-058 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  10. Corporate registry source · src-114 identified by category only · Corporate registry

4Estonia and Lithuania

analysisEstonia's e-Business Register lists DEEL INC as the sole shareholder of LETSDEEL ESTONIA OÜ (registry code 16186188, formerly Huntley Osaühing) since 2 September 2023, with Alexandre Bouaziz on the management board since 5 July 2021 and Stanley Dale Broome since 22 April 2026. The register records Bouaziz as a beneficial owner since 8 October 2025 in his capacity as a board member, not through a shareholding; an aggregator page had earlier said he was not a beneficial owner of any Estonian company. On 13 October 2026 the register flagged that the company had not filed its 2025 annual report and that a deletion notice had been published, a procedure that ends if the report is filed; its revenue was €313,612 for 2024. 1 2 3

analysisA Lithuanian business-data site lists Bouaziz as manager since 14 February 2024 of Probonas, UAB, an employment-services company in Vilnius with an average of 170 insured employees; the site does not name its owner, so its connection to Deel rests on his role. 4

sources in this section

  1. Corporate registry source · src-015 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  2. Corporate registry source · src-052 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  3. Corporate registry source · src-079 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  4. Corporate registry source · src-025 identified by category only · Corporate registry

5Spain, Germany and other European entities

analysisSpain's commercial-registry gazette recorded on 15 February 2023 that DEEL INC had become sole shareholder of Provenzal Verdon Corporat SL (Madrid sheet M-765581), formed in April 2022 and renamed Letsdeel Spain SL in April 2023, and that Alexandre Bouaziz had replaced the previous sole administrator. The company has appointed numerous holders of powers of attorney, including in August 2026 a group that includes Dor Barda, and has had Adn Versa Auditores SLP as auditor since April 2026. 1 2 3

analysisAn aggregator reproducing the German register lists Deel Germany GmbH (Munich, HRB 264857), formerly the shelf company Blitz 21-101 GmbH owned in 2021 by Blitzstart Holding AG, as providing payroll, compliance, employer-of-record and immigration services; its free view does not show the current shareholder. The same aggregator's network shows Bouaziz as managing director of Deel Germany, chief executive of Deel Finland Oy and former president of Deel France SAS, and Deel Inc. as owner of the Danish and Spanish companies; it marks these relations as unverified, though the Danish and Spanish holdings are confirmed by registry data. 4

sources in this section

  1. Corporate registry source · src-051 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  2. BORME gazette entries for Madrid, including PROVENZAL VERDON CORPORAT SL (later LETSDEEL SPAIN SL) (BORME-A-2023-37-28) Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado · Feb 2023
  3. Corporate registry source · src-112 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  4. Corporate registry source · src-042 identified by category only · Corporate registry

6Ireland

analysisIrish company-data summaries list two companies with the Deel name at the same company-service address in Tullamore: Deel Hr Ireland Limited (CRO 683509), a holding company set up on 1 December 2020, and Lets Deel Ireland Solutions Limited (CRO 750843), set up on 20 October 2023, each with one shareholder. The free summaries do not name directors or shareholders, so their ownership by Deel, Inc. is not established in the retained record. A third company, Deel Ireland EOR Limited, was the employer in the 2026 Workplace Relations Commission decision described on the page on regulators and tribunals. 1 2 3

sources in this section

  1. Corporate registry source · src-035 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  2. Corporate registry source · src-070 identified by category only · Corporate registry
  3. Court record source · src-053 identified by category only · Court record

7Omnipresent

analysisAccording to a commercial financial-data service summary published by a financial-information website, Deel, Inc. completed the acquisition of the UK employer-of-record provider Omnipresent Group Limited on 9 October 2025; no price is given. Companies House records Alexandre Bouaziz as the person with significant influence or control of Omnipresent Group (company 12327661) since 30 September 2025; before that the company had stated from January 2021 that it had no registrable person, and from November 2019 its founders Matthew Wilson and Guenther Eisinger each held more than 25%. Its board changed after 30 September 2025: Michael Henry Crisp-Ginzo joined that day, Eisinger left and Philippe Bouaziz joined on 10 December 2025, and Dor Barda on 20 April 2026. 1 2 3

analysisOmnipresent Group has held 75% or more of its subsidiary Omnipresent Consulting Group Limited (company 13851637) since January 2022, and Alexandre Bouaziz was recorded as a person with significant influence or control of the subsidiary from 30 September to 19 December 2025. Its directors have included Uriel Eldan, Stanley Dale Broome, James Michel Mallet and, from 1 October 2026, Vanya David Ande Alfred Bouaziz; the register states no family relationship between Vanya Bouaziz and the Deel founders. The current directors' correspondence address is 167-169 Great Portland Street, London, which was LETS DEEL LTD's registered office from October 2022 to March 2026. 4 5

timeline · 2017–2025

  1. Deel, Inc., first named Lifeslice, Inc., is created in Delaware
  2. Alex Bouaziz becomes a director of LETS DEEL LTD in the United Kingdom
  3. Deel completes the acquisition of Omnipresent Group Limited

cite this dossier

DossierTwist, “Deel: ownership, group and the Rippling litigation”, dt.009, 17 October 2026, https://dossiertwist.com/dossiers/deel/

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