How do you buy a corporation?

And is it possible to research a corporation's liabilities--like debts, liens, etc. What if the corporation is no longer registered as such--is it still a corporation?

You can buy a corporation in many different ways.

The simplest way to explain this is to build up the amount of stock you own of that company, if it is publicly offering stock. After you own more than 50% of the stock of the company, usually you will be able to make all of the decisions of the company. Thus, you have bought the corporation.

Also, you can be another corporation that offers a deal to the corporation you want to "buy" by offering a merger. This way, your company will merge with the other company at their own will. The two corporations are normally friendly to one another. You haven't really bought the other corporation, but the two corporations are now working as one.

You can also have a friendly takeover. This is when another company actually buys a lot of a corporation's stock, but this buying is agreed upon. After a while, one company owns the other.

There's another way of buying a corporation which is called a hostile takeover. Basically, you and others from one corporation decide to buy stock from another corporation. After you own a large amount of stock of the other corporation, you have a large say over what the company does (even if you don't have over 50% of the corporation's stock), even if the company doesn't like it. One thing you can do is called "greenmail". Basically, you tell the other company that you won't try to buy them, but what you do is sell the stock you have of their company at a very high price back to them, so you get profit from buying and selling their stock. Normally, companies can be so fearful that another company is going to buy them that they'll pay you the higher price of stock you are selling back.

However, there are tons of strategies for preventing hostile takeovers, and some people dedicate their careers to this sort of job.

Now to answer your subquestions. It isn't really possible to research everything about a corporation, and some corporations try to be more transparent than others (that is, they tell you more about their thoughts and debts and so on). And a corporation that isn't registered as such is no longer a corporation.

You Have To Have Alot Of Green Stuff.

A corporation is only a corporation while it maintains that legal status. You can buy the rights to the name of a former corporation.

You buy a corporation by buying all its stock or, if it is a small corporation, one or two officers/shareholders, you buy the business as a whole. A corporation must have a federal tax ID number and you can get a credit report as you would for a person.

If the corporation is no longer registered in its state of original registration, iot probably means the corporation was dissolved, voluntarily or otherwise (usually for failing to file annual reports). If your state corporations division has a web site, you can usually find all the filings from the original Articles of Organization to the most recent annual report.

If it has been dissolved, you can only buy the assets. It might not be worth buying the name, especially if it was not registered as a trademark or logo.

You could probaby buy it through stocks. Anything is possible.
I would say that it is not a corporation if it is not registered as one.

if you want to buy a corporation the easy way.... you can buy a shelf corporation. they run around $800 and up. the best thing you can do is get a corporation that is 5 years or older and its a c corporation. that way you can easly get credit for you corporation. If you want an established corporation go for corporations that are 5 years or older. you would want an asset and stock sale of the corporation. to see if the corporation has any liens or depts i suggest you pull A COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS REPORT FROM Dun & Bradstreet. also talk to a Corporate Attorney and A Business Broker to help you close the deal. i recomend reading this book form Garet Sutton called How to Buy & Sell Business, and Own your own corporation by Garet Sutton.

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