Department of State Filing services
We can help you form, amend, change, merge, qualify or dissolve.
We can file your UCCs, designations, and trademark or servicemark applications.
Name Reservation
If you are not ready to form the entity, but want a specific name, reserve it!
Limited Liability Company
What type of entity do you want?
That is a question best answered by your accountant and/or attorney and depends on your specific circumstances.
Call us at 1-800-832-1220 for more details.
TradeMark and ServiceMark
If you have a specific logo or catchy phrase to advertise your goods or services and you want to protect it, file it with the State.
If you plan to go bigger, i.e. national, call us for information about registering your idea/artwork at the Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C.
Business Corporation
If you have your document ready, email it to us and let us know if you want a certified copy back and/or a corporate kit for that new business.
If you want us to prepare and file the document for you, CLICK HERE for a New York, Delaware or New Jersey corporation.
Limited Partnership
Need to check availability. You will be required to publish legal notices.
Registered Limited Liability Partnership
Would not need consent nor would you need to check name availability.
Professional Corporation
f you are an attorney, you will need a good standing certificate from the Appellate Division to which you were admitted to practice law.
If you are forming for a different profession, you need to obtain consent of the Education Dept. Call or email us for more details.
Assumed Name (DBA)
For entities that want to do business using a different (shorter? more descriptive?) name, e.g., D & D Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a Donuts & Drivel.
Document and Information Retrieval
We can help you form, amend, change, merge, qualify or dissolve.
We can file your UCCs, designations, and trademark or servicemark applications.
Current Corporate Status
Is the entity domestic, foreign, active or inactive and why?
Dissolved voluntarily or by proclamation?
Current or past due with its Biennial Statement?
Is a Registered Agent or business location listed?
Is the Chairman’s name on file?
Franchise Tax Search
NYS Dept. of Taxation and Finance. Is the entity current with its franchise taxes? This report will not tell you amounts due, if any.
It will simply tell you the periods of time for which reports and/or taxes are due.
Corporate History
to the publicDocuments on file at the Department of State.
By-laws and Operating Agreements are not filed with the Dept. of State.
Also, the name of a director/member/owner of a for-profit business corporation is not required to be made public, therefore may not be available; however if a Biennial Statement has been filed, the Chairman’s name and address will be available to the public.
UCC and Federal Tax Lien Searches
On file at the Department of State. Do you want the face pages only or the face pages and any attachments that may be on file?
State Tax Lien and Judgment Search
Filed at the county level and can be obtained when doing a search on the county level.
Title Services *
* services provided through licensed/authorized third parties
Private Investigation Services *
* services provided through licensed/authorized third parties
Miscellaneous Services
We also visit many state offices on a regular basis to file, serve process, or retrieve documents.
Tell us what you need, we will find it!
NYS Library
Need documents from former cases copied?
NYS Department of Professional Licensing
Obtain consent from here if you are a licensed professional wanting to form a business entity.
NYS Appellate Division
Third Department.
NYS Archives
Many court and other documents end up here.
NYS Court of Appeals
Current and recent decisions and/or opinions in a snap!
NYS Department of Insurance
We serve process and can obtain good standings and copies of annual statements, etc.
NYS Public Service Commission
Opinions and Orders and other documents generally available.
United States District Court
Northern District of New York is just down the street.
If the case is not very old, it may be in Albany and can be retrieved.
If it is a closed case, it may be in the National Records Center (archives) in Lee’s Summit, MO.
We can assist you in obtaining documents from there as well.
Albany County Clerk
Supreme Court Record Room.
United States Bankruptcy Court
Northern District of New York Clerk’s Office is just down the street.