Registered agents · national profile
GOULD & RATNER LLP
GOULD & RATNER LLP is on file as registered agent for 318 entities under this exact filed name across 1 of the state registers we index, as published by Illinois Secretary of State, Department of Business Services. Counts are per register at its snapshot date and are floors: the same brand can file under different legal names in different states, and different filed names are never merged.
Received something from GOULD & RATNER LLP?
This name appears on public state business registers as a registered agent — the party a company appoints to receive service of process (lawsuits, subpoenas) and official state correspondence on its behalf. It is a forwarding role, and the agent is chosen by the company, not by whoever is writing to it. GOULD & RATNER LLP is on file this way for 318 entities across 1 register we index, which is what this page measures — and is itself a reason to think the name on your letter is a real firm rather than an invention.
Most often an agent is passing on a document addressed to a company that appointed it: a court filing, a state notice, or a reminder that a filing is due. Hearing from an agent is not itself a claim against you, and the agent is normally not a party to whatever the document concerns.
If it reads as a penalty or a fee demand, verify before paying. Solicitations designed to resemble state or agent correspondence are common. What a register actually says about a company — including who its agent of record is — is public, and you can read it yourself: Illinois .
CorpFacts is not GOULD & RATNER LLP, is not affiliated with any registered agent, and cannot act for one or answer questions about a particular document. An agent's own contact details appear on the register entry of the company that appointed it. This page describes what the role is; it is not legal advice about anything you have received. For the role in general, see what a registered agent is, which covers this at more length.
- Entities represented
- 318
- Registers listing this name
- 1
- Largest register
- Illinois
By register
In the Illinois register it is on file for 318 entities, the 59th-largest of the 101 listed agents — under 1% of the register's 1,174,344 existing registrations. Its most common client entity type there is "Domestic Limited Liability Company" (about 61% of its registrations). About 95% of its clients are recorded as "goodstanding" at the register's snapshot. Its oldest still-listed client was formed in the 1930s.
318 entities in view
Per-register detail
| Register | Entities | Snapshot | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 318 | 2026-09-04 | Profile + entity list → |
How these figures are made
Every number on this page is a count over the state registration files themselves, at each register's snapshot date — no estimates, no third-party data. An agent appears in our index when its filed name is organization-shaped and it is on file for 200 or more entities in a register; person-named agents are never listed, regardless of volume. Counts are floors: registers file the same agent under varying punctuation and spelling, variants merge only when the difference is mechanical, and a brand filing under different legal names in different states is shown as its separate names. Being listed states only what the registers state: that this name appears as registered agent on that many filings.
If this listing names you personally rather than an organization, or states something the register does not, contact us — we verify and correct or remove listings, and person-named agents are removed on request.
CorpFacts is an independent reference site. It is not affiliated with the IRS, the SEC, any state Secretary of State, or any other government agency, and it is not a filing service — we never file anything on your behalf and never charge for a federal form the IRS issues free. Records here summarize official public sources; confirm anything you rely on at the source. Nothing on this site is legal, tax or financial advice.