How to find out who owns a company in Michigan
Michigan’s annual statement forces a correction every February, which makes its records fresher than most states of comparable size.
Short answer: Search the entity through LARA’s Corporations Division. Articles of organization name the organizer and resident agent, and the annual statement due each February refreshes the agent and registered office.
Start at LARA, not the Secretary of State
Michigan business registration sits with the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs rather than the Secretary of State, which is why searches for “Michigan Secretary of State business search” lead people to vehicle registration instead.
How to search
- Open the Corporations, Securities and Commercial Licensing Bureau entity search.
- Search by entity name or ID number.
- Open the record and view the filing history.
- Read the most recent annual statement, then the original articles.
What Michigan doesn’t require
Michigan LLCs aren’t obliged to name members or managers on the articles. Many filings therefore show an organizer and a resident agent and nothing else. The annual statement doesn’t add members either — it refreshes the agent and office.
When that’s all you have, the assumed name (DBA) filing is your best route, along with professional licence records, which LARA also administers — a useful coincidence, because contractors, cosmetologists and health practitioners are all named in the same department’s registries.
If you need this at scale
For every new Michigan entity as it files, with annual statement updates tracked, see Michigan formation data.
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