How to find out who owns a company in Oregon
Oregon requires a real person with a real mailing address on the articles, which puts it ahead of most of the country.
Short answer: Search the entity on the Secretary of State’s business registry. Oregon requires at least one member or manager, with a mailing address, on the articles of organization — and the annual report refreshes it on the formation anniversary.
Oregon names people, not just agents
This is the part that matters. Many states let an LLC form with nothing but a registered agent on file. Oregon doesn’t — the articles must carry at least one member or manager along with an address for them. So an Oregon record usually gives you a human being from day one.
How to search
- Open the Oregon business registry search.
- Search by business name or registry number.
- Open the record for registered agent, principal place of business and associated names.
- Check the most recent annual report for the current version.
Anniversary renewals spread the corrections out
Oregon renews on the formation anniversary rather than a fixed statewide date. Practically, that means corrections arrive throughout the year instead of all at once, and no month is systematically staler than another. It’s a small thing that makes Oregon data more evenly reliable than states with a single annual deadline.
When the name is a filing service
Where a commercial agent organised the filing, the associated names may all belong to that service. Oregon’s fallback is the assumed business name registration, which names the individuals or entities behind the trading name.
If you need this at scale
For every new Oregon entity as it files, with members and managers parsed from the articles, see Oregon formation data.
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