Incorporation & Corporate

Registered Office

The official address where a corporation receives legal documents and keeps required records.

Every corporation must maintain a registered office in its jurisdiction of incorporation, and it must be a real address rather than a post office box. Government notices and court documents are validly delivered there.

Why it matters: a stale registered office means you may not learn about a lawsuit or a government notice until a deadline has already passed.

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