Company name change for US businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — company name change is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to IRS. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside corporate compliance more broadly, that stays with your CPA or enrolled agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for company name change — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Company name change sits inside corporate compliance, alongside Annual report & franchise tax compliance, Registered agent / office change, Charter & bylaws amendment. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

No. Unlike most other Delaware Division of Corporations filings, a name-change Certificate of Amendment has to be submitted by mail or in person. That mail-only mechanic is the main reason turnaround runs several business days to about two weeks under standard processing, though 24-hour and same-day expedites are available for an added fee.

Delaware's own filing fee is $214 for a domestic corporation (more if authorized shares also increase in the same amendment) and $220 for a domestic LLC, per the Division of Corporations' fee schedule. A certified copy, often wanted by banks, is an additional $50, and expedited processing is $100 for 24-hour or $200 for same-day.

No. The state filing and the IRS's EIN record are separate systems. The IRS record gets updated separately, typically via Form 8822-B or by reflecting the new legal name on the company's next federal return. Until that update goes through, the EIN record still shows the old name.

No. The Certificate of Amendment attaches to the existing Certificate of Incorporation or Certificate of Formation — Delaware does not reissue the founding document. The company's original formation date and filing history carry through unchanged.

No separate reservation step is required. The new name's availability is checked against Delaware's name index at the point the amendment is filed — we run that check before drafting the certificate for signature so the version submitted is one that will clear.

The registered agent's file, the IRS EIN record, every bank account tied to the EIN, state tax registrations, and any business licence or permit issued under the old name. None of these update automatically off the Delaware filing — each is a separate record that needs its own update, which is what the downstream checklist tracks.

Most banks want a certified copy, not just the plain stamped filing, before they will update an account name. We flag this up front and typically order the certified copy in the same filing pass so a second request-and-wait cycle with Delaware is not needed later.

Whatever the company's own governing documents require — at minimum a board resolution, and a shareholder or member vote if the charter or operating agreement calls for one on a charter amendment. We draft the resolution alongside the amendment and confirm it is passed and recorded before the certificate goes out.

Not automatically, and that is a legal question, not a filing one. Trademark clearance under the new name and whether existing contracts require a renaming notice or counterparty consent are questions we flag to the client's attorney rather than resolve ourselves — a filing agent prepares and files the paperwork, it does not make that legal call.

An authorized officer or manager of the company signs it, per the standard signature authority set out in the governing documents. CapEasy drafts the certificate from an attorney-approved template, confirms the resolution and the name-availability check are in place, and files it as a paid filing agent — the signature and the underlying decision to change the name are the company's.

Delaware allows a single Certificate of Amendment to cover more than one change, including a name change alongside an authorized-share increase, and the filing fee scales with what is being changed. We prepare the amendment to cover exactly what the board has approved, whether that is the name alone or bundled with another charter change.