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> Organize your business and your tech correctly and you can have an owned foreign subsidiary that can comply with local laws.

I doubt it, a majority owned subsidiary is usually passed through for many legal purposes.

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If there's one thing I believe in, it's the ability of the rich to fabricate creative corporate structures to evade the laws of a particular jurisdiction, especially with the aid of a second jurisdiction with interest in that evasion.

Just make it complex enough to confuse juries beyond a prosecutors famously low appetite for losing and you'll be absolutely fine.

Yep, to the extent that short (at best, cause they are potentially fallible) of a warrant canary getting snuffled it is very possible that a company could set up a subsidiary for appearances.

Or, just buy bits of control interest outright (CryptoAG?)

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