CLASNotes Blog

The Delaware Division of Corporations has announced its 2016 Year-End Holiday Schedule.  Please refer to the schedule below for details on the office's closures and what services CLAS will be able to provide.

Effective November 1, 2016, the California Secretary of State has adopted updated Statement of Information Forms for Corporations. Per the state, the following changes have been made:

Three states (Connecticut, Maryland and North Carolina) have new laws taking effect during the month of October. Please see below for summaries of the laws that will go into effect this month. 

If you are involved in a transaction where you need to submit official documents to a foreign country, you will want to have a basic understanding of when Apostilles are necessary and when you may be faced with the more prolonged Legalization

Delaware and four other states (Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, and New Hampshire) have new laws taking effect during the month of August. Please see below for summaries of the laws that will go into effect this month.

There is a new business tax in the state of Nevada, the Commerce Tax, and every business must file an initial tax return by August 15, 2016. Although the tax is imposed on businesses with a Nevada gross revenue exceeding $4 million in the

The summer months traditionally see many new business compliance laws taking effect - and July, 2016 is no exception. Below are summaries of the laws that will go into effect this month: 

When a formation or foreign qualification document is submitted for filing, the filing office will perform a thorough review of the document before accepting it into the state’s records. One of the first things the state looks at is the business name

When requesting a UCC search as part of a pre-funding due diligence investigation, do you ask your service provider to report filings found under similar names? What if you are self-searching using an online system, do you employ flexible

The June 1, 2016 deadline for Delaware Alternative Entities (i.e. LLC, LP and GP) to pay their annual tax for 2015 has come and gone. This year, like every year, countless entities have missed the deadline and are now delinquent