How to find out who owns a company in Arizona
Arizona requires members or managers on the articles themselves, and publishes them free. It’s one of the best states in the country for this.
Short answer: Search the entity on the Arizona Corporation Commission’s eCorp site. Arizona requires members or managers to be named on the articles of organization, so you usually get a person on the formation filing itself.
Start in the right place
Arizona is one of the few states where business registration doesn’t sit with the Secretary of State. The Arizona Corporation Commission handles it, which is why people searching “Arizona Secretary of State business search” often come up empty.
How to search
- Open the Corporation Commission’s entity search.
- Search by entity name, or by principal name to find every entity linked to a person.
- Open the record and look at the members or managers section — names and addresses are listed.
- Check the document history for amendments, which is where changes of control show up.
What “member-managed” and “manager-managed” tell you
Arizona records state which structure the LLC uses. Member-managed usually means the people named are the owners. Manager-managed means the named manager may be an employee or an outside firm rather than a stakeholder — worth knowing before you address someone as the owner.
When you find a statutory agent service instead
Phoenix and Tempe host a lot of commercial statutory agents, and their addresses repeat across thousands of unrelated entities. If the members section names a company rather than a person, you’ve found a filing service. The Arizona alternative is the trade name registration or a professional licence, both public.
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