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United States company records, by state

The United States has no single federal company register — company records are filed with each state. Choose the state of registration to search and buy an official US company record, with its registry filings.

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Official register
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Priced by state
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At a glance

United States at a glance

Documents included
Set by each state register
Controlling entities
Recorded at state level
Shareholders & beneficial owners
Recorded at state level
How to order
Search by state, then by company name
Price per record
Priced by state
How US records work

One country, fifty-plus registers

Company registration in the United States is administered by each state's Secretary of State, not by a federal registry. To retrieve a US company record, start from the state where the company is registered — the search picker lets you drill down to the state and buy the record with its filings.

Both halves, one purchase

What you receive

A Company Record is two things delivered together — the verified report and the official documents behind it, for one price.

The KYB report

The company, verified from the source

Company particulars, the people in control, and the shareholders and beneficial owners — with the ownership chain resolved, retrieved at the moment you buy from the official register.

  • Registered company data & status
  • Directors, officers & controlling parties
  • Shareholders & beneficial owners, where the register publishes them
The registry filings

The official documents on file

Every record comes with the standard set of registry documents needed for AML and KYB compliance — the official filings, straight from the source register.

  • The standard AML & KYB compliance document set
  • Official copies, straight from the register
  • Further filings on the register — available on request
About the register

State business registries (Secretaries of State)

The United States has no national commercial register. A company is formed under the law of an individual state, and the filing office is a state agency, in most states the Secretary of State's office. Federal guidance from the Small Business Administration confirms that LLCs, corporations, partnerships and nonprofit corporations register with state agencies, and that the federal Employer Identification Number is a tax identifier issued for federal tax purposes, not a company registration. What a company record contains, and which documents can be obtained, is set by each state register.

Delaware carries particular weight in the state system. Its Division of Corporations, part of the Delaware Department of State, reports that more than 2,000,000 business entities have made Delaware their legal home, including more than 66 percent of the Fortune 500, and it provides entity search, status checks and certificates of good standing. For public companies, the SEC's EDGAR database provides free public access to registration statements, prospectuses and periodic reports filed on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, together with event reports on Form 8-K.

Beneficial ownership sits outside the state registers. Under FinCEN's final rule, effective 14 August 2026, US companies are exempt from beneficial ownership information reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act, and only certain foreign companies registered to do business in the United States must report. Shareholder and beneficial-owner details therefore appear on the public record only where a state register publishes them.

Three steps

How it works

No account manager needed to get started.

1

Request

Tell us the company in United States you need a record for.

2

We retrieve

Our Registry Services team sources the record directly from the official register.

3

Receive

Your record and its filings are delivered to you.

Good to know

United States company records — questions

Are these official records?
Yes. Records are sourced directly from United States' official company register — registry data only, nothing aggregated, resold, or editorialised.
What exactly is a "Company Record"?
Two things in one purchase: the KYB report (company data, controlling parties, shareholders and beneficial owners) and the standard set of official registry documents needed for AML and KYB compliance.
Can I get additional filing documents?
Every record includes the standard document set for AML and KYB compliance. If you need a document beyond that set, contact us and we'll find out whether the register holds it.
Does the record include shareholders and beneficial owners?
That depends on which register the record comes from. Company records for United States are ordered by scope — you pick it in the search — and each register publishes its own set of fields. Open the scope you need to see what a record from it contains.
How current is the information?
It is retrieved from the register at the time we fulfil your request, so it reflects the register's current state.
Which register holds company records in the United States?
There is no single federal register. Each state's filing office, in most states the Secretary of State, registers the companies formed or qualified there, and the content of the record is set by that state's register. The Company Records report for a US company reflects what the relevant state register publishes.
Why do so many US company searches involve Delaware?
The Delaware Division of Corporations, part of the Delaware Department of State, states that more than 2,000,000 business entities have made Delaware their legal home, including more than 66 percent of the Fortune 500. Its public tools include entity search, name availability, entity status checks and certificates of good standing. For a Delaware company, the Company Records report reflects what the Delaware register publishes.
Does SEC EDGAR cover private companies?
EDGAR is the SEC's database, giving free public access to corporate filings such as registration statements, prospectuses, periodic reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q and event reports on Form 8-K. It is a filings database for companies that report to the SEC rather than a register of company formation, which remains a state matter handled by each state's filing office.
Is beneficial ownership information public in the United States?
Beneficial ownership reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act is made to FinCEN, not to the state registers. Under FinCEN's final rule effective 14 August 2026, US companies are exempt from the reporting requirement and only certain foreign companies registered to do business in the United States must report. At state level, shareholder or ownership details appear only where the individual state register publishes them, and the Company Records report follows what the register publishes.

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