Where it is incorporated, and who to serve.
Every registration statement a company files carries, on its cover, the name, address and telephone of its agent for service — the person who accepts legal papers on the company’s behalf. The SEC’s form requires it. This page reads it off the latest one, with the state of incorporation and a link to that state’s registry. Search a company, or search an agent to see every company that agent fronts. A company that discloses no agent on any registration statement is listed below as not disclosing.
Nothing here is legal advice. The agent for service on the SEC form and the registered agent of record at the state registry are usually, not always, the same; the registry is linked on every card so you can check.
Not disclosing the agent
… of the … companies looked at have no agent for service on any registration statement in their record.
That is a red flag on this wire. It means the paper that is supposed to say who accepts service does not, and a shareholder who wants to serve the company has to find out for themselves at the state registry.
Write to the SEC
If a company you hold does not disclose its agent, or the agent you find is not the one on file, a letter to the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance says so on the record. Search the company above; the card carries a Letter to the SEC button that fills one in with the company’s name, its CIK, the forms it filed and what is missing. Print it, sign it, send it by certified mail. Keep the receipt.
The letter states facts from the SEC’s own record and asks the staff to look. It alleges nothing.