Michigan Registered Agent

You should hire us first and then do your business registration filing, because you can’t form an LLC or corporation in Michigan without a valid registered agent. You’ll get all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you place an order.

You can do a Michigan business name search.

• Type in the name of the company you’re searching for.
• In the results, you’ll find the registered agent’s name and registered office street address.

If you want to legally notify a Michigan business through their registered agent, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.

Service on your registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you actually receive the documents your Michigan registered agent signs for, once they accept the documents, you’ve been notified. This is a serious responsibility that we do not take lightly. This is how it works:

• A process server, the county sheriff, or any third party will walk into our office and hand us the documents (service of process), which we sign for.
• The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they served us.

Note: If you’ve hired Northwest, you’ve received your documents long before the process server hands in their affidavit to the court, because we scanned them to your online account within minutes of having been served.

In Michigan, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Resignation of Resident Agent form to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA). For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Michigan.

There are several reasons why you need a registered agent:

• To become a legitimate, registered Michigan business, the state forces you to appoint a Michigan registered agent. Sorry.
• The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs will reject your filing if you don’t appoint a registered agent that can legally operate in Michigan.
• So the general public has a reliable way to send important mail or legal notices to every registered Michigan business.

Hiring a professional registered agent service like Northwest takes the burden of these responsibilities off your shoulders, letting you concentrate on actually running your business.

Absolutely! We’re the only national registered agent service that allows our clients to list our addresses for everything when you’re filing, helping keep your private addresses off of public records.

We don’t want ALL of your business mail. It’s not what we do. And it wouldn’t serve you well, because without a unique address or suite number, any mail we receive on your behalf would come to Northwest Registered Agent, care of you.

But we understand that businesses and clients sometimes reach out to you through your registered agent. That’s why we give you five FREE scans of regular business mail a year. You can request to forward additional documents for $15 per document.