| Registered Agents There are a couple of ways to search for
the registered agent of a company:
Westlaw is the quickest and
easiest resource to use to find this type of information.
The database to use would be Combined Corporate
Records & Business Registration Records, the
database identifier for which is CORP-ALL. You can
also search states individually by using the state
abbreviation such as CORP-CA for California. Other
information that can be obtained from this database is
the business address and date of incorporation or names
and addresses of officers.
You can also find the registered
agent of a company by going directly to the websites of
the individual Secretaries of State. Rather than
searching for each state website, a good resource that
has created a page with links to all 50 states is the National
Registered Agents, Inc. (NRAI). NRAI http://www.nrai.com is a professional registered agent
service for business entities. One of the features on
NRAI's website is their Research Center http://www.nrai.com. Within the Research Center, NRAI has
provided links to State Online Databases, Secretaries of
State, State Revenue Departments, State Insurance
Departments, Banking Commissions and State Legislatures.
Once you select the Research
Center page, there is a list of links on the left side.
Select "State Web Links" and then on the
next page select "Online Database" at
the top of the page in the second column. This link will
take you to a list of states with links to their
corporate pages (called either Corporate Information,
Corporate Inquiries, Corporate Database, Business Name
Searches, Corporate Searches, etc.). Since each database
is created by the individual state, the quality,
availability and detail vary greatly. Some databases are
free, some fee-based and some a combination of both. This
resource can be good to use since some of the databases
are free, sometimes the databases provide more detailed
information than Westlaw, and sometimes they provide
different information than Westlaw. It can either be a
good place to start or a good place to double check your
information. The down side is that it can be hit or miss
depending on the state that you need to search.
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