ESC Corporate Services

ESC Corporate Services (MGS PPSA AML CPSO), previously Dye & Durham and Teranet, is a private Ontario corporation that acts as a licensed government service provider under contract with the Ministry of Government Services (MGS). This company is best known by Canadian law firms and the business community as the direct link to the government whereby ESC Corporate Services acts as a facilitator of regulatory compliance by providing access government records and government's registration and filing services. The most widely used government services facilitated by ESC Corporate Services include Incorporations, PPSA searches and registrations, Security Searches and trade name registrations.

ESC Corporate Services is a licensed service provider under contract with the MGS. Licensed service providers under MGS contract have exclusive rights to facilitate access to government registries (records databases) and registration services in Ontario and across Canada. As such, ESC Corporate Services is licensed to legally provide a variety of government services to the legal and business communities. The contract with the MGS does not prohibit the development of any proprietary and value added services that a Licensed Service Provider deems necessary in order to retain its market share and improve its operational and customer service quality.

ESC Corporate Services was founded as Dye & Durham which itself was established in Toronto in 1874. It formally adopted the name Dye & Durham in 1911. Dye & Durham was an organization that originally sold legal forms, primarily in Ontario, and soon progressed to offer a complete line of office products and, most recently, as a search, registration and corporate supplies division of Teranet. As a result of acquisition from Dye & Durham and Teranet, ESC Corporate Services was established in January 2010 and started providing government services to the public as a licensed service provider under contract with the Government of Ontario. ESC Corporate Services' headquarters is located in the King Street and Spadina Avenue area of Toronto, Ontario.

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