How to find who owns an LLC

For a few years, the Corporate Transparency Act looked set to make company ownership a federal matter: companies would report their beneficial owners to FinCEN. In 2026 FinCEN finalized a rule that permanently removed that requirement for US companies and US persons. The federal beneficial-ownership registry is not a public source for who owns a domestic LLC. What’s left is what was always there: the state business register, UCC filings, litigation and property records.

What the state register tells you

Every US LLC is registered with a state filing office. That filing names the registered agent and, in most states, the members, managers or officers on record — the people on the public filing, not ownership percentages. It’s the first place to look, and it’s free. Start with the state business entity search for the state of formation.

What the register doesn’t show — and how to go further

A registered agent is often a commercial service, not the owner, and single-member LLCs can file with little more than an agent. When the register is thin, three other public trails help: UCC filings name the lenders who took security interests (a UCC search shows who has lent against the company), litigation and bankruptcy dockets name principals, and property and permit records tie a company to the people behind it. Netstate cross-references all of these to a single company profile, each field cited to its source.

Where to search, state by state

Each row links to the free Netstate business entity search for that state, the official filing office’s own search, and — where the state’s UCC index is loaded — a UCC lien search. The owner info on the filing column notes the state’s own term for the people it publishes.

Common questions

Netstate surfaces these public records for a person to review — it is not a consumer reporting agency and does not make eligibility decisions. Look up any company across every US state at Netstate, or read how we collect and cite the records in the methodology.