How to find out who owns a company in Louisiana
Louisiana names officers and members on the annual report, and organises everything by parish rather than county.
Short answer: Search the entity on the Secretary of State’s commercial database. Louisiana lists officers, members and managers with addresses on the annual report, and every record carries the parish of the registered office.
Louisiana names more people than most Southern states
The annual report requires officers and, for LLCs, members or managers, with addresses. Combined with the articles naming the incorporator or organizer, a Louisiana record usually gives you multiple real names rather than a single agent.
How to search
- Open the Commercial Division search.
- Search by business name or charter number.
- Open the record for agent, officers, members and parish.
- Check the most recent annual report for the current people.
Parishes, and why they matter
Louisiana uses parishes rather than counties, and generic data tools routinely mangle the field or drop it. Orleans, Jefferson and East Baton Rouge behave as separate markets, and the parish is the cleanest way to split them — if the tool you’re using preserves it.
A civil law quirk worth knowing
Louisiana is the only state built on civil law rather than common law, and its business filings use terminology that doesn’t always map neatly onto other states. If you’re normalising Louisiana data alongside 49 other states, that mismatch is where errors creep in.
If you need this at scale
For every new Louisiana entity as it files, with parish preserved as its own field, see Louisiana formation data.
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