Georgia Foreign LLC Registration

Georgia carves 13 activities out by statute. On their own, none of them requires a foreign LLC to register.

• Maintaining or defending a lawsuit, administrative proceeding, or arbitration, or settling claims or disputes
• Holding meetings of managers, members, or other owners, or carrying on internal company affairs
• Maintaining bank accounts, savings and loan share accounts, custodial or agency arrangements, or brokerage accounts
• Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of membership interests, or appointing trustees or depositaries for them
• Effecting sales through independent contractors
• Soliciting or procuring orders, by mail or through employees or agents, where the orders require acceptance outside Georgia before becoming binding and the contracts involve no local performance other than delivery and installation
• Making loans, or creating or acquiring evidences of debt, mortgages, or liens on property, or recording them
• Securing or collecting debts, or enforcing rights in property securing them
• Owning real or personal property, and nothing more
• Conducting an isolated transaction not in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature
• Effecting transactions in interstate or foreign commerce
• Serving as trustee, executor, administrator, or guardian, or in a like fiduciary capacity where Georgia law permits
• Owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, an interest in another person organized under Georgia law or transacting business in Georgia

Under O.C.G.A. Section 14-11-702(b), all 13 statutory items. Georgia's isolated-transaction carve-out has NO time limit. Subsection (d) states this Code section does not establish a standard for taxation or service of process.

• https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/