Department of Financial Institutions
P O Box 7846
Madison, WI 53707-7846
Phone (608) 261-7577
(608) 266-8818 for TTY |
If sent by courier, Express or Priority US mail, address to:
Department of Financial Institutions
345 W. Washington Ave, 3rd Floor
Madison, WI 53703 |
| EXPEDITED SERVICE EXPEDITED SERVICE You may request expedited service for any document filing. It will receive attention by the close of the business day following that on which it is received. Clearly mark documents "FOR EXPEDITED SERVICE" and provide an additional $25.00 for each item.
NAME AVAILABILITY The availability of
a limited liability company name is determined at the time of
filing of the application for certificate of registration or
an application to reserve a name. No name can be assumed to
be available unless confirmed by written acknowledgement from
this department.
NAME RESERVATION A domestic or foreign
limited liability company may apply to reserve exclusive use
of a company name by delivering an written or telephone application
to the department. The application must include the name and
address of the applicant and the name proposed to be reserved.
If accepted, the name will be reserved for a period of 120 days.
The reservation may be renewed.
CONTINUING REQUIREMENTS To maintain its registration,
a foreign limited liability company must promptly file its annual
report, continuously maintain a registered agent and registered
office in Wisconsin, and promptly apply for an amended certificate
of registration in the event it changes its name, its date or state
of organization or if the vesting of management of the LLC is changed.
REGISTRATION EXCEPTIONS No certificate
of registration is required under Chapter 183 for:
- Maintaining, defending or settling any civil,
criminal, administrative or investigatory proceeding.
- Holding meetings of its member or managers
or carrying on other activities concerning its internal affairs.
- Maintaining financial institution accounts.
- Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer,
exchange and registration of the foreign limited liability
company’s own securities or interests or maintaining
trustees or depositories with respect to those securities
or interests.
- Selling through independent contractors.
- Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by
mail or through employes or agents or otherwise, if the orders
require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts.
- Lending money or creating or acquiring indebtedness,
mortgages and security interests in property.
- Securing or collecting debts or enforcing
mortgages and security interests in property securing debts.
- Owning, without more, property.
- Conducting an isolated transaction that is
completed within 30 days and that is not one in the course
of repeated transactions of a like nature.
- Transacting business in interstate commerce.
A foreign limited liability company shall not
be considered to be transacting business in this state solely
because it
- Owns a controlling interest in a corporation
that is transacting business in this state.
- Is a limited partner of a limited partnership
that is transacting business in this state.
- Is a member or manager of a limited liability
company or foreign limited liability company that is transacting
business in this state.
ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE A foreign limited
liability company intending to offer architectural or professional
engineering services or a charitable organization soliciting
donations in this state may have a registration requirement
with the Department of Regulation and Licensing. Phone (608)
267-1397.
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