Not by itself. A commercial brand connection must not be treated as a parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate relationship without the actual ownership and control evidence.
Identify the legal entities behind the signage
Explain who owns the foreign employer and proposed U.S. organization. A franchise agreement can describe commercial rights without establishing the intracompany relationship. The individual employment and requested role conditions remain necessary even if a qualifying relationship exists.
If the purchase was structured through a holding company, a family trust or the owner personally, the chain has to be traced entity by entity until common ownership and control appear at the top. If vendors or contractors perform a function, identify who controls their work and who remains accountable for the component, because that evidence helps test whether the applicant truly directs management rather than personally performs the operation. Where the successor comes from a different part of the group, the two threads meet at a single question, whether the employing entity abroad is itself a qualifying related company, and that question should be answered before either thread continues.