CT Corporation, or the Corporation Trust Company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer, a multi-national information services company based in the Netherlands with operations in more than 35 countries. CT Corporation is part of Wolters Kluwer Financial & Corporate Compliance, which provides a wide range of technology-enabled lending, regulatory and investment compliance solutions, corporate services, and legal entity compliance solutions. The portfolio includes BizFilings, Compliance Solutions, CT Corporation, OneSumX, eOriginal, Expere, TeamMate, GainsKeeper, NRAI, and Lien Solutions. CT has more than 950 employees in 46 cities nationwide. As of 2005, CT Corporation was the largest registered agent service company in the world.[2]
CT Corporation has been in the registered agent business since its founding in New Jersey in 1892.[3] The original charter of the company was handwritten and stated that its purpose was "to carry on a general agency business, especially the acting as an agent of and trustee for corporations."
In 1895, what was then the Corporation Trust Company began assisting lawyers with the details of incorporating and qualifying corporations in all states and territories. They opened their first office in New York City in 1899. In 1955, they exceeded 75,000 units of statutory representation (including domestic and foreign units). [citation needed]
In 1995 CT Corporation and Commerce Clearing House (CCH) were acquired by Wolters Kluwer, a multi-national information services company based in the Netherlands with operations in 26 countries. CT becomes a sister company of CCH within the Wolters Kluwer organization. In 2002 CT acquired Business Filings, Inc., an online incorporation firm based in Madison, Wisconsin. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company is now known as BizFilings.
In 2006, after being acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2004, Summation Legal Technologies becomes CT Summation joining CT TyMetrix in CT Corporation's Litigation Solutions group. CT Corporation announced its reorganization in 2006 into four business units: Compliance & Governance, UCC Solutions, Litigation Solutions, and Trademark Solutions. CT now includes CT Corporation, CT Lien Solutions, CT Summation, CT TyMetrix and CT Corsearch.
In 2018, CT Corsearch was sold to Audax Private Equity and became an independent company.[4][non-primary source needed]
March 6, 2023, CT Corporation became part of the Financial & Corporate Compliance (FCC) division within Wolters Kluwer. FCC provides a wide range of technology-enabled lending, regulatory and investment compliance solutions, corporate services, and legal entity compliance solutions.
In 2025, Wolters Kluwer completed its acquisition of Registered Agent Solutions, Inc. (RASi) to further bolster CT Corporation’s corporate services offerings and expand its presence with small businesses, middle-market companies, and law firms in the U.S.
CT’s technology-enabled expert services support the entirety of the business lifecycle while providing transactional support for the M&A deal workflow. CT customers include 70% of the Fortune 500, more than 15,000 law firms, including 95% of the AmLaw 100 and well over 300,000 companies and businesses of all sizes.
CT Corporation is a leading U.S. provider of corporate services and entity management solutions for businesses of all sizes. Its offerings include hCue-powered entity management, business license services, UCC filing and search, annual report management, assumed name portfolio management, service of process handling and transactional filings such as incorporations and dissolutions.
Effective April 1, 2025, Catherine Wolfe was appointed as Executive Vice President and General Manager of CT Corporation.
Awards
Wolters Kluwer was named a Gold-level winner in the 2024 Globee® American Business Awards[5] for its work in helping businesses comply with beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA).
Wolters Kluwer earned a 2024 Fintech Breakthrough Award for excellence in developing its beneficial ownership reporting platform.
In 2022, Stevie Awards judges applauded CT Corporation’s significant improvements to the client onboarding experience for its business license managed services.[6]
CT Corporation’s Entity Managed Services won the 2022 Best in Biz Award. CT Corporations bronze award-winning submission to Best in Biz’s “Most Resilient Company of the Year” category touted enhancements made to the company’s Entity Managed Services offering CT Corporation’s UCC Hub earned a 2022 Best in Biz Award with an “Enterprise Service of Year” trophy.
Corporate Vision magazine named UCC Hub a 2021 Legal Technology Launch of the Year Award in its competitive Technology Innovators category.
CT Corporation’s Global Corporate Services and Entity Managed Services earned Technology Enablers of the Year award in by The New World Report.
CT Corporation’s UCC Filing Hub was included as one of the 2020 Emerging Legal Technologies by the National Law Journal. CT Corporation earned a Silver-level recognition for Customer Service Success in the 2020 Stevie Awards.
The UCC Hub’s functionality that enables ongoing management of UCCs was honored with a Silver Award by the 2020 Best in Biz Awards.
CT Corporation’s hCue was awarded the 2020 Silver Golden Bridge Award for empowering corporate secretarial, treasury, tax, accounting, governance, and compliance departments across organizations to more effectively manage corporate records.
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