Britain had an East India Company first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_%28disambiguation%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

Britain had an East India Company first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_%28disambiguation%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_%28disambig... http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2014/04/worlds-first-multinational http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2014/04/worlds... It's up for debate who was the first multinational. No doubt both set the bar very high for those to follow, but I do think blackwater spinoff dyncorp with child sex slaves will take some beating, particularly with respect to the prevailing moral climate of the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynCorp#Bosnia_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynCorp#Bosnia_incidents