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Would a UK.ltd company be able to easily hand over all the 'info' to the 'feds', though?

Very good point and this approach does afford a back-channel with plausible deniability.

After all - data held in a country is subject to the government of that country being able to demand/obtain access.

It doesn't matter where the data is.

I would be very surprised if the data was hosted overseas.