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# API - Nov 8, 2022 - Bean

Added

### New User LegalPersonType: Partnership

Verifying some specific legal structures is now more efficient thanks to a new legal entity type: PARTNERSHIP.

The Legal User `LegalPersonType` parameter now includes the “PARTNERSHIP” value. The following endpoints have been updated accordingly:\
-Create a Legal User (Payer)\
-Create a Legal User (Owner)\
-Update a Legal User\
-View a Legal User

Please note that changing the LegalPersonType to “PARTNERSHIP” for an existing user will automatically result in:\
-A KYC downgrade to Light (default) verification \
-The `REGISTRATION_PROOF` document being flagged as `OUT_OF_DATE`

With this new `LegalPersonType`, Mangopay teams can better handle specific legal structures and speed up the validation process.

> **Note**
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> **Note**
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> The structures concerned by the PARTNERSHIP type usually involve a partnership of distinct sole proprietors and don’t always have some of the elements required for the BUSINESS type, such as a company number. \
> Examples of these structures include theGesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts (GbR) in Germany and theVennootschap onder firma (VOF) in the Netherlands.