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Company Shareholder Searches: Why You Should Use a Professional Search Firm

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Do you need help searching for shareholders and their family members? HeirSearch can assist in locating company shareholders and their heirs.

Shareholders searches are necessary if you need to:

  • Identify the circumstances of a shareholder no one has heard from in years to buy them out
  • Locate a securityholder who is considered an “unresponsive payee” because a check that was sent to the securityholder was not negotiated before the earlier of the following scenarios: a) a paying agent sending the next regularly scheduled check or b) the elapsing of six months after the sending of the not yet negotiated check
  • Locate heirs of shareholders who bought into a company a long time ago and have since passed away
  • Identify the living family of a deceased stockholder to obtain information about the estate and disposition of property or to acquire the rights to a specific product or trade secret
  • Find a former employee to deliver funds from a profit-sharing plan

Since 1967, we have harnessed our forensic genealogy expertise to complete shareholder searches. We are proud to have achieved a success rate of 97% across our heir searches. We will complete your searches faster, more effectively, and cost-efficiently than your in-house searches.

We offer no-cost, no-obligation consultations, even if you are not planning to start your shareholder search immediately.

Get in touch with us to learn more about how HeirSearch can help with your shareholder searches.