>> If the EU comany is a subsiduary of the US company, then it will have to follow its orders and won't really be separate. Accenture and other US consultancie

>> If the EU comany is a subsiduary of the US company, then it will have to follow its orders and won't really be separate. Accenture and other US consultancies with global operations faced this problem when bidding for government contracts. They created a global parent corporation (in Accenture's case it was Luxembourg and in many cases it is Bermuda.) The US portion of the business is owned by the global parent. The EU portion of the business is owned by the global parent as well. Same for other subsidiaries.