Comment by DOsinga

The Germans requiring everything on paper with people witnessing signatures is of course rather silly, but whether it takes 3 weeks to form a company or 3 days is ultimately not going to be a real difference. I think the thing here is more that American companies have trouble handling non American companies and hence the flip. I sold a Dutch B.V. to an American company once except they didn't want to buy the company because they didn't understand it and instead we ended up selling the assets and taking a tax hit.

Also if you are in the EU you can just start an Estonian company and run that in Germany