Register a Professional Corporation

If you are a professional Licensed with an affiliated professional association or body you can register your company as a Professional Corporation. Some examples of professionals allowed to form a Professional Corporation are Lawyers, Paralegals, CPA, Doctors, Dentists, etc.

Your proposed name must end with the words Professional Corporation If the name is available and satisfies the name rules of the province we will proceed to register with that name. Example: M. Richards Law Professional Corporation.

Note: Suitable for corporation who wish to have shareholders with voting power & non-voting power. Shareholders with voting power are decision makers while non-voting shareholders don't involve in any business decisions. Corporation will have Class A Common Voting Shares and Class B Common Non-voting Shares.

Custom Share Structure: For advanced users. With this option you can define shared classes. If you select custom share structure please provide the rights & restrictions for all the custom share classes in the box provided below.

A corporate minute book is a record of your corporation’s By-laws, rules, activities, minutes and such registry and legal documents. Typically, the corporate minute book is accessible at the head office of the Corporation or at the Corporation’s records office address.
What is the use of a minute?
Corporation regulations require that you have a properly maintained minute book with up to date information and changes made to the business. When you visit a bank to open an account for the business, the minute book is accepted as proof of shareholders' names.
What is included in a minute book?

• Articles of Incorporation
• By-laws of the Corporation
• Minutes of the directors’ and shareholders’
• Meetings/Resolutions
• Directors and officer’s registers
• Shareholder register and ledgers
• Share transfer register
• Share certificates

Agent for service: is a contact person for the corporation who resides in Alberta. Usually a director can be an agent of service.

The Board is made up Directors, Officers. & also incorporators. All directors must be professionals and are same with equal status and power. We call them Director 1. Director 2,etc for convenience of filing. Otherwise they all have same role in a corporation. You can add up to 3 directors. All directors are also the incorporators.