Louisiana Foreign LLC Registration

What triggers foreign qualification in Louisiana?

• Physical office or place of business
• Employees working in the state

Activities that do NOT require registration in Louisiana

The following activities are explicitly carved out by statute. On their own, they do not require a foreign LLC to register in Louisiana.

• Maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding
• Holding meetings of managers or members, or carrying on internal company affairs
• Maintaining bank accounts
• Maintaining offices or agencies for transfer, exchange, and registration of the company's own membership interests, or appointing trustees or depositories for them
• Soliciting or procuring orders, by mail or through employees or agents, if the orders require acceptance outside the state, including preliminary steps
• Creating evidences of debt, mortgages, or liens
• Securing or collecting debts, or enforcing rights in the property securing them
• Transacting business in interstate or foreign commerce
• Conducting an isolated transaction completed within 30 days that is not one of repeated transactions of like nature
• Acquiring or disposing of property or a property interest, outside regular business activity

Under La. R.S. 12:1343. Louisiana has NO independent-contractor safe harbor and NO passive property-ownership safe harbor. No tax or service-of-process disclaimer.