Business search · Connecticut
Connecticut business search
The Connecticut Secretary of the State, Business Services Division keeps the official record of every company, LLC and corporation registered in Connecticut. Look one up by name and see status, entity type, formation date, officers and registered agent. Clerkfield reads Connecticut's open data directly, and every result shows the source and the date of the data.
What Connecticut's records include
The fields a Clerkfield result returns for Connecticut, taken from the state's own record.
- Account number and legal name
- Business type, such as LLC, Stock or Non-Stock
- Status and sub-status
- Registration date
- Mailing address
- Principals (officers, members, managers) with titles and the addresses they filed
- Registered agent
- Every other field in the state's table, such as annual report due date, place of formation and NAICS code
Not in Connecticut's free records
Nothing we know of: the free records carry every field listed here.
Types of business Connecticut registers
- LLC
- Stock
- Non-Stock
- Limited Partnership
- LLP
- Statutory Trust
- B Corp
- Religious
What Connecticut's statuses mean
Connecticut uses its own words for a business's standing. Clerkfield keeps the state's wording in every result and marks each one active or inactive.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Active | Registered and in existence. Check that the annual report due date is still in the future too. |
| Forfeited | The state dissolved the business, for example for overdue annual reports. It may only wind up its affairs until it is reinstated. |
| Dissolved | The business was closed, normally by its owners. |
| Revoked | A business from another state lost its authority to do business in Connecticut. |
| Withdrawn | A business from another state gave up its Connecticut registration. |
| Merged | The business merged into another and no longer exists on its own. |
| Expired Reservation | Only a name was reserved, and the reservation ran out. Not a business. |
How to search Connecticut records by hand
The state's own search is at service.ct.gov.
- Open the business search on service.ct.gov (linked from business.ct.gov).
- Type the business name or the account number and search.
- Open the matching record and read the status, sub-status and annual report due date.
- Check the principals and the registered agent listed on the record.
- For a formal document, order a certificate of legal existence through business.ct.gov.
Fees and how current the data is
How current it is
Clerkfield queries the Secretary of the State's public-domain business tables on data.ct.gov at each check. The state refreshes them daily; each result shows the date of the last refresh.
Good to know about Connecticut records
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The state's table also holds name reservations and rejected filings. Clerkfield leaves those out because they are not businesses.
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Connecticut publishes the business table, the principals and the agents as free open data, so officers come from the state's own records.
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Connecticut uses the word Forfeited for a business the state dissolved, so read it as dissolved, not as a tax penalty.
Liens on Connecticut businesses
Clerkfield also searches Connecticut UCC filings, by business or by lender, from the Connecticut Secretary of the State, Business Services Division.
Connecticut UCC search-
From the Secretary of the State's own business registry tables on data.ct.gov: the business master, the principals and the agents. They are public domain and refreshed daily.
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The state dissolved it, for example for overdue annual reports. A forfeited business may only wind up its affairs until it is reinstated.
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Look for status Active and an annual report due date that is still in the future. Both are in the state's record and in Clerkfield's result.
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Yes, as filed. The principals table names officers, members and managers with titles, but an owner who was never filed will not appear, so a missing name means review.
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The state's table includes reserved names and rejected filings, which are not businesses. Clerkfield leaves them out so a reserved name is never mistaken for a company.