How to move your LLC or corporation to Texas from New York [step-by-step]

Attorney and CPA Chad D. Cummings presents this powerful presentation on the decision by Apollo Global Management to establish its second headquarters in Austin and explains how to move a company out of New York while keeping the EIN, contracts, and bank accounts intact. The firm manages approximately one trillion dollars in assets and has been based in New York for its entire history. CEO Marc Rowan evaluated Austin, Miami, Palm Beach, and Nashville before selecting Texas, where most future hiring will occur. New York ranks 50th on the Tax Foundation’s 2026 State Tax Competitiveness Index while Texas ranks 7th and imposes no individual income tax. The same decision calculus that applies to a firm with four thousand employees applies to a firm with four. Headquarters location and state of incorporation should be deliberate choices, not defaults. Learn more: https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/move-business-out-of-new-york/