CT, or the Corporation Trust Company, is a

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, a multi-national information services company based in

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with operations in more than 35 countries. CT Corporation is the largest registered agent service firm in the world representing hundreds of thousands of business entities worldwide. It provides

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and services that legal professionals use. As a provider of registered agent services the company is not responsible for the business or legal affairs of the customers it serves.

History

The company now known as CT Corporation has been in the

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business since its founding in

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in 1892 with only 44 employees. The original charter of the company was handwritten and stated that its purpose was "to carry on a general agency business, especially the acting as agent of and trustee for corporations". In 1895, what was then the Corporation Trust Company began assisting lawyers with the details of incorporating and qualifying corporations in all states and territories. They opened their first office in

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in 1899. In 1955, they exceeded 75,000 units of statutory representation (including domestic and foreign units).

Notables

* In 1995 CT Corporation and

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(CCH) were acquired by

, a multi-national information services company based in the Netherlands with operations in 26 countries. CT becomes a sister company of CCH within the

organization. * In 2002 CT acquired Business Filings, Inc., an online incorporation firm based in

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. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company is now known as BizFilings. * CT announces its reorganization in 2006 into four business units: Compliance & Governance, UCC Solutions, Litigation Solutions, and Trademark Solutions. CT now includes CT Corporation, CT Lien Solutions, CT Summation, CT TyMetrix and CT Corsearch. In 2018, C
Corsearch
was sold to Audax Private Equity and became an independent company. * In 2006, after being acquired by

in 2004, Summation Legal Technologies becomes CT Summation joining CT TyMetrix in CT Corporation's Litigation Solutions group. * CT has more than 800 employees in 46 cities nationwide. CT Corporation is the largest

service company in the world. * As of January, 2007, CT Corporation represented 227,459 business entities in

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and over 16,663 active entities in

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. * CT Corporation's registered-agent service in

is at the Corporation Trust Center at 1209 North Orange Street which is famous for being the home of thousands of companies due to Delaware's incorporation laws.

References

External links

CT Corporation
— Official CT Corporation Website {{DEFAULTSORT:CT (Company) Legal software Legal software companies Business services companies of the United States Companies based in New York City 1892 establishments in New Jersey American companies established in 1892