Alberta Corporate Registries - Anything you Need to Know about Setting Up and Maintaining a Business

The Alberta Corporate Registries office is the 'keeper' of records for all businesses operating or doing business in Alberta. If you want to engage in business, you need to register and be 'recorded' in the Alberta Corporate Registries. Once you are registered, the Business Corporation Act mandates that you keep your business information up to date by filing annual returns. If you fail to do so, then the Business Corporation Act will strip your business from its active records.

Alberta Corporate Registries - AlbertaRegistry.net Helps you Before, During and After

You can go to any authorized Alberta registry agent to help you file your papers with the Alberta Corporate Registries. For the best information and overall convenience, go to an online authorized Alberta registry agent such as AlbertaRegistry.net. They offer Alberta corporate registries services such as the following:

Alberta Corporate Searches. This entails the Alberta corporate registries agent to conduct a search if your preferred business name is already in use by another entity.

NUANS Pre-Search. If you pay an Alberta corporate registries agent or firm to conduct a Newly Updated Automated Name Search (NUANS) pre-search, then they will simply conduct EXACT MATCH searches of your proposes business name against others.

NUANS Search. A full NUANS Search report from your Alberta corporate registries agent will provide you a list of exact matches and business names that are phonetically, visually or physically similar to yours.

Alberta Trade Name Searches. If you decide to register as a sole proprietor and want to use a trade name, the Alberta corporate registries agent will check out your proposed name for you.

Alberta Incorporation Registration. Authorized Alberta corporate registries agents make incorporation easy for you by providing forms that you just need to fill out. The forms require you to provide basic information about your proposed business such as its physical location, board of directors, and so on.

Alberta Annual Returns. As a fully operating business, you need to keep your financial records up to date and documented. An Alberta corporate registries agent can help you fill and file your annual returns. If you do not do this, you will be removed from the Alberta Corporate Registries records and any other firm (e.g., potential clients or investors) checking you out will not find you.

Amendments. Businesses change and sometimes this may prompt a business owner to change the structure of his business (e.g., from sole proprietorship to a corporation), change his business name or modify his list of directors. All these business modifications need to be filed and you can do this through your authorized Alberta corporate registries agent.

Partnerships. Say that your business has grown and that you now plan to acquire another business or be 'merged' with another firm to form a new company, you would then need to file an Articles of Amalgamation document. Through your Alberta corporate registries agent, you can fill out all the necessary forms (e.g., Articles of Arrangement, Notice of Address or Notice of Change of Address, Notice of Directors or Notice of Change of Directors, etc.) and have them file and make the required Alberta corporate registries registrations for you!

Dissolutions. Unfortunately, not all business endeavors succeed and one may find that ending his or her business is the best way to go. In this case, go to your Alberta corporate registries agent and fill out a form intending to dissolve your business. One this form is submitted by your Alberta corporate registries agent and you later find that you can still carry on, you would need to approach your Alberta corporate registries agent again and file for revocation of your submitted form stating your intention to dissolve your business.