California Foreign Corporation Formation
In California, you may register your exiting corporation registered elsewhere to
do business in California by completing and filing an Application for Registration
of Foreign Corporation Name. This form is provided by, and filed with, the Department
of Business Services of the Secretary of State.
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Steps to Form a California Foreign Corporation
A Foreign Corporation filing allows a business from one state to expand into another
state. In California, a form called the Statement and Designation by Foreign Corporation
is used to become a foreign corporation:
- Corporation: You must provide name of your entity exactly as it is was registered
with your initial state of incorporation. If the legal name of your corporation
is the same as a corporation that is already registered in California, you will
need to adopt an assumed name for use in the state at the time of filing. Have ClickAndInc.com
perform a preliminary business name search
so that you can be aware of this issue ahead of time and avoid a rejection.
- Place of incorporation: You will list your original state of incorporation.
- Principle office: You must list your principle executive office. This may or may
not be a California address.
- Agent: An individual, or an already-existing entity, must be provided in your application
as the contact person for your business. If an individual, you must provide their
complete street address, which cannot be a PO box. If an outside corporation or
LLC, the business’s name and jurisdiction (which will be California, unless a foreign
entity registered in California is acting as the agent) must be provided to enable
California to look up the entity’s corporate records.
- Signature: A corporate office must execute the form.
Additional Requirements for a California Foreign Corporation
You are required to obtain and submit a Certificate of Good Standing (sometimes
known elsewhere as a Certificate of Existence) along with your foreign corporation
registration; this certificate must be dated within 6 months of filing. When ClickAndInc.com
handles your California Foreign
Corporation registration for you, we will take care of obtaining the certificate.
Or, if you only need a
Certificate of Good Standing, we’d be happy to obtain just the certificate
for you.
Other Types of Businesses in California
For information on other types of businesses in California, please explore the links
below.
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