Convert or Create – Please let us know if you plan to convert an existing business (sole proprietorship, partnership, LLC, out-of-state corporation, etc.) into a California corporation or if you are creating a completely new corporation from scratch. By converting an existing business, you are indicating that you plan for your corporation to assume the owners, clients, accounts receivable, assets, and liabilities of the current business.
If creating a new corporation, please skip to item 3 “Name Choice”. If converting a business, please complete the following additional questions:
Name Choice – Please provide your top three preferred name choices. To see if a name is available, please check the Secretary of State website at http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/cbs.aspx.
Please remember to include the required professional language (i.e. Physical
Therapist, Physical Therapy) and incorporation language (i.e. Corporation,
Incorporated, Limited, Corp., Inc., Ltd., etc.1) If you would like us to reserve your name in advance of incorporation, please so indicate.
1Physical Therapy Limited Liability Companies are illegal in the state of California. This was the result of California Attorney General Opinion No. 04-103.
2By selecting this option, it confirms the name’s availability and reserves the name for 60-days. We will file the request in person and it usually takes the Secretary of State’s office 2-3 days to process the request. The only downside is that we must wait for the Secretary of State to indicate which name has been reserved, to place it onto the Articles of Incorporation at the time of filing.
3Some businesses prefer to acquire the local rights to acronyms or shortened versions of their corporation’s name. Please so indicate so that we can properly acquire.