How to find out who owns a company in Nevada
Nevada has a reputation for corporate secrecy that its own filing requirements don’t entirely deserve — the initial list names managers within 30 days.
Short answer: Search the entity on SilverFlume, the Secretary of State’s business portal. Nevada requires an initial list of managers or managing members within 30 days of formation, and that list is public.
Nevada is more open than its reputation suggests
Nevada markets itself on privacy, and people assume ownership is hidden. It isn’t, at least not at the management layer. The initial list — and the annual list after it — names managers or managing members, and both are public record.
What Nevada doesn’t publish is the beneficial owner behind a manager who happens to be another entity. That’s where the privacy reputation actually comes from.
How to search
- Open SilverFlume or the Secretary of State’s business entity search.
- Search by entity name or business identification number.
- Open the record and look for the officers or managers section.
- Check the most recent annual list, which supersedes the initial one.
The out-of-state problem
A large share of Nevada entities are formed by people who live and trade somewhere else, using a Las Vegas or Carson City agent address. The manager named may be genuine while the address is a mail suite, so the record tells you who but not where.
When that happens, search the manager’s name in the state where the business actually operates — a Nevada LLC doing business in California generally has to register there too, and California asks for more.
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