The United States remains the deepest capital market on earth and the default venue for venture and growth investment, mergers and acquisitions, and the resolution of high-value disputes. It is the place a company goes when the next round, the next acquirer, or the next exit is the point of the structure.
Delaware sits at the center of that gravity. Through the Court of Chancery, a dedicated non-jury business court, the state has accumulated over a century of corporate case law, giving directors, sponsors, and counsel an unusually clear read on how a given decision will be tested. That predictability, paired with the General Corporation Law and a modern LLC Act, is why holding companies, venture-backed startups, and joint ventures so reliably incorporate there. For operating footprints, founders and families also reach for Wyoming, Nevada, and Texas, weighing privacy, cost, and the absence of state income tax against where the business actually runs.
There is a second, quieter reason international clients look to the United States. It is one of the few major economies that does not participate in the OECD Common Reporting Standard, exchanging financial-account information bilaterally and through FATCA rather than under CRS. Set against strong rule-of-law and creditor protections, that posture shapes how many cross-border families and operating groups think about U.S. situs. None of it displaces U.S. tax, any Corporate Transparency Act reporting that still applies, or a client's own home-country obligations. The value is certainty, and the rules, while demanding, are known.