Company and corporate documents

What businesses bring me

• Corporate resolutions and minutes signed by a director or officer.
• Certifications of incumbency and signature authority for a bank.
• Agreements, supplier contracts and letters of intent.
• Sworn statements by an officer for an agency or a court.
• Documents that will be used abroad by a parent company or a partner.

Who signs, and what I check

I verify the identity of the individual signing and complete the certificate for that signature. Companies do not sign; people sign on their behalf.

What I do not verify is whether that person has authority to bind the company. A notarization is not a statement that the signer is an authorized officer. If the bank or the registry needs that confirmed, they usually ask for a resolution or a certificate of incumbency alongside.

Directors in another country

This is where remote online sessions earn their keep. A director in Bogotá, Madrid or Caracas can sign a Florida-notarized document the same afternoon, with the identity verification the platform performs, and the company gets on with its business.

If the finished document is going abroad, it will probably need an apostille too, and I can guide that filing.

At your office

For several signatures — a board meeting, a closing, a batch of employee documents — it is quicker if I come to you. Lakeland and the rest of Polk County, at the hour that suits the business rather than the hour that suits an office counter.