How to find out who owns a company in Georgia
Georgia names the organizer on the articles and the officers on the annual registration, and both are free to search.
Short answer: Search the entity on the Georgia Secretary of State’s Corporations Division site. The articles of organization name the organizer, and the annual registration names the officers — both public, both free.
Two filings, two kinds of name
The organizer is whoever signed the company into existence. That’s often the owner, but it can equally be a lawyer or a filing service. The annual registration is the better source: it’s refreshed every year and names the people actually running the company.
If the two disagree, trust the more recent annual registration.
How to search
- Open the Corporations Division business search.
- Search by business name, or by registered agent or officer name to work backwards from a person.
- Open the record and check the filing history.
- Open the most recent annual registration for current officers and the principal office address.
A Georgia-specific catch
Georgia LLCs aren’t required to list members, only an organizer and a registered agent. A single-member LLC formed through an online service can therefore show no owner at all. When that happens, the annual registration is your best shot, followed by the trade name registration filed at county level.
Working metro Atlanta
Most Georgia formation activity sits inside the metro, and the principal office address on the annual registration is the field to filter on if you’re building a territory rather than researching one company.
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