advice needed; dividing business act. among LLC to avoid legal issues

[Natasja]

Hi,

I cannot go in great detail about this since I'm currently waiting on a reply of several law firms but would be willing to share more details privately if someone shows to have extensive knowledge about this. Our goal is to divide business activities among the LTD/LLC we have in order to operate legally.

So we have the following setup:

Company A (non-USA LTD) ships products to customers in USA.
Company B (non-USA LTD) maintains the website and forward orders to Company A.

We want to work together with an US company which enables us to accept payments from US customers directly via their software. This company requires us to have an US LLC, so we need to setup an US LLC (company C) in order to meet their legal requirements. BUT selling the products through the US LLC is unlawful according to US law. So we question if it's possible to accept payments via the website maintained by company B, through the US LCC without the US LCC being seen as the one who MADE the sale (you probably need to read that sentence again lol).

So for example if someone clicks 'pay with creditcard' on the website maintained by company B, we want the payments to be going through company C without company C being seen as the one who is responsible for the actual sale.


Thanks in advance for the advice.

 

[Natasja]

anyone care to o advice ?

 

[Andrew Gooden]

anyone care to o advice ?

anyone care to o advice ?

anyone care to o advice ?

It seem like you need to wait for your lawyer to advice you here since you want it to be legal. However, you could set up company A and collect payment through Company B. Company A act as an Affiliate or a go between that introduce buyer to seller, but payment is paid thought company B. Company B should be set up as a foreign LLC of Canada, Japan or UK as they are the USA strongest trading partners next to China.