Literally, every single response here is wrong. The lack of knowledge of corporate structures is unbelievable.
Guys, if you're going to post on this stuff, make sure you actually know what you're doing and have done this before.
The mentioning of a "subsidiary" by someone for example. This has nothing to do with anything.
A company in the UK needs a minimum of 2 things :-
1) A director
2) A shareholder
A shareholder can be another company, and this is what a subsidiary is.
A director cannot be a company. It must be a person.
It does not need to be the same as the shareholder. It can be a nominee director.
However, the problem with UK Ltd's is they require a "PSC" register. Not a single person even mentioned that here, which makes me think not a single person has even created a basic Ltd company in the UK.
PSC register is "persons of significant control".
There is no way around this. You can't list a company or a nominee. It has to be you if you own more than 25% of the company.
I'm sure there's ways around it by using a complicated structure, but if you're at that level you'd have already made a call to Deloitte.
If you want an anonymous company then create a New Mexico LLC. Not even the US gov will know you own it.
Of course if you open a US bank account, you will disclose to your bank, and then the US gov will probably find out, but this generally isn't a problem.
Even if a US LLC owns a UK Ltd, you still need a person on the PSC register.