It's also a preventative thing. If I find an LLC I want to do business with, now I can look at who owns it to see if that changes anything. Otherwise, I can't.

It's also a preventative thing. If I find an LLC I want to do business with, now I can look at who owns it to see if that changes anything. Otherwise, I can't. For me personally, I like having them public because one LLC might become a client, and I want to be sure that client is who they say they are and not owned by a company that I won't do business with. For example, maybe Microsoft decides they want to get support from me. I don't want to support Microsoft. So they have one of their existing shell companies act like a potential client. If LLC records are not public, I can't know it's really Microsoft and reject them. If they are public, I can do the legwork to find out and reject them.