A. Whenever a foreign limited liability company that is registered to transact business in the Commonwealth is a party to a merger permitted by the laws of the state or other jurisdiction under whose laws it is organized, and that limited liability company is the surviving entity of the merger, it shall, within 30 days after the merger becomes effective, deliver to the Commission for filing a copy of the instrument of merger duly authenticated by the Secretary of State or other official having custody of limited liability company records in the state or other jurisdiction under whose law it is organized. However, the filing shall not be required when a foreign limited liability company merges with a domestic corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, business trust, or partnership; the foreign limited liability company's articles of organization or other constituent documents are not amended by the merger; and the articles or statement of merger filed on behalf of the domestic corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, business trust, or partnership pursuant to § 13.1-720, 13.1-1072, 13.1-1261, 50-73.48:3, or 50-73.131 contains a statement that the merger is permitted under the laws of the state or other jurisdiction in which the foreign limited liability company is organized and that the foreign limited liability company has complied with that law in effecting the merger.
B. Whenever a foreign limited liability company that is registered to transact business in the Commonwealth is a party to a merger permitted by the laws of the state or other jurisdiction under the laws of which it is organized, and that limited liability company is not the surviving entity of the merger, the surviving partnership, limited liability company, business trust, limited partnership, or corporation shall, if not continuing to transact business in the Commonwealth, within 30 days after the merger becomes effective, deliver to the Commission a copy of the instrument of merger duly authenticated by the Secretary of State or other official having custody of limited liability company records in the state or other jurisdiction under whose law it was organized, and comply in behalf of the predecessor limited liability company with § 13.1-1056. If a surviving business trust, registered limited liability partnership, limited liability company, limited partnership, or corporation is to continue to transact business in the Commonwealth and has not registered as a foreign registered limited liability partnership, limited liability company, business trust, or limited partnership or received a certificate of authority to transact business in the Commonwealth as a foreign corporation, as the case may be, it shall, within 30 days after the merger becomes effective, deliver to the Commission an application, if a foreign registered limited liability partnership, for registration as a foreign registered limited liability partnership, if a foreign limited liability company, for registration as a foreign limited liability company, if a foreign business trust, for registration as a foreign business trust, if a foreign limited partnership, for registration as a foreign limited partnership, or, if a foreign corporation, for a certificate of authority to transact business in the Commonwealth, together with a duly authenticated copy of the instrument of merger and also a copy of its partnership certificate, statement of registered limited liability partnership, articles of organization, articles of trust, certificate of limited partnership, or articles of incorporation and all amendments thereto, duly authenticated by the Secretary of State or other official having custody of registered limited liability partnership, limited liability company, business trust, limited partnership, or corporate records in the state or other jurisdiction under whose laws it is organized, formed, or incorporated.
C. Upon the merger of a foreign limited liability company with one or more foreign partnerships, limited liability companies, business trusts, limited partnerships, or corporations, all property in the Commonwealth owned by any of the partnerships, limited liability companies, business trusts, limited partnerships, or corporations shall pass to the surviving partnership, limited liability company, business trust, limited partnership, or corporation except as otherwise provided by the laws of the state or other jurisdiction by which it is governed, but only from and after the time when a duly authenticated copy of the instrument of merger is filed with the Commission.
1991, c. 168; 1992, c. 575; 1997, c. 190; 2004, c. 274; 2008, c. 108; 2016, c. 288.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 12 - Virginia Limited Liability Company Act
§ 13.1-1001. Reservation of power to amend or repeal
§ 13.1-1003. Filing requirements
§ 13.1-1003.1. Filings with the Commission pursuant to reorganization
§ 13.1-1004. Issuance of certificate by Commission; recordation of documents
§ 13.1-1006. Penalty for signing false documents
§ 13.1-1011. Articles of organization
§ 13.1-1011.1. Articles of correction
§ 13.1-1014. Amendment of articles of organization
§ 13.1-1014.1. Restatement of articles of organization
§ 13.1-1015. Registered office and registered agent
§ 13.1-1016. Change of registered office or registered agent
§ 13.1-1017. Resignation of registered agent
§ 13.1-1018. Service on limited liability company
§ 13.1-1018.1. Change of principal office
§ 13.1-1019. Liability to third parties
§ 13.1-1020. Parties to actions
§ 13.1-1021. Limited liability company property
§ 13.1-1021.1. Agency of members and managers
§ 13.1-1022. Management of limited liability company
§ 13.1-1023. Operating agreement
§ 13.1-1023.1. Remedies for breach of operating agreement by member or manager
§ 13.1-1024. Management of a limited liability company by a manager or managers
§ 13.1-1024.1. General standards of conduct for a manager
§ 13.1-1025. Limitation of liability of members and managers; exception
§ 13.1-1026. Business transactions of members or managers with the limited liability company
§ 13.1-1028. Information and records
§ 13.1-1029. Sharing of profits and losses
§ 13.1-1030. Sharing of distributions
§ 13.1-1031. Interim distributions
§ 13.1-1032. Resignation of member
§ 13.1-1034. Distribution in kind
§ 13.1-1035. Restrictions on making distribution
§ 13.1-1036. Liability upon wrongful distribution
§ 13.1-1037. Right to distribution
§ 13.1-1038. Nature of interest in limited liability company
§ 13.1-1038.1. Admission of members
§ 13.1-1039. Assignment of interest
§ 13.1-1040. Right of assignee to become member
§ 13.1-1040.1. Events causing member's dissociation
§ 13.1-1040.2. Effect of a member's dissociation
§ 13.1-1041.1. Member's transferable interest subject to charging order
§ 13.1-1042. Right of action; standing; condition precedent; stay of proceeding
§ 13.1-1046. Dissolution; generally
§ 13.1-1047. Judicial dissolution
§ 13.1-1047.1. Waiver of cancellation
§ 13.1-1049. Distribution of assets upon dissolution
§ 13.1-1049.1. Known claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 13.1-1049.2. Other claims against dissolved limited liability company
§ 13.1-1049.3. Court proceedings
§ 13.1-1050. Articles of cancellation
§ 13.1-1050.2. Automatic cancellation of limited liability company existence
§ 13.1-1050.3. Involuntary cancellation of limited liability company existence
§ 13.1-1050.4. Reinstatement of a limited liability company that has ceased to exist
§ 13.1-1050.5. Survival of remedy after cancellation of existence
§ 13.1-1051. Authority to transact business required; governing law
§ 13.1-1052. Application for certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1054. Name of foreign limited liability company
§ 13.1-1055. Amendments; amended applications for registration
§ 13.1-1056. Voluntary cancellation of certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1056.1. Automatic cancellation of certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1056.2. Involuntary cancellation of certificate of registration
§ 13.1-1056.3. Reinstatement of a certificate of registration that has been canceled
§ 13.1-1057. Transaction of business without registration
§ 13.1-1058. Actions by Attorney General
§ 13.1-1059. Transactions not constituting doing business
§ 13.1-1064. Penalty for failure to timely pay annual registration fees
§ 13.1-1066. Collection of unpaid bills for annual registration fees
§ 13.1-1067. Property title records
§ 13.1-1071. Action on a plan of merger
§ 13.1-1072. Articles of merger
§ 13.1-1073.1. Abandonment of merger
§ 13.1-1076. Action on plan of domestication by a domestic limited liability company
§ 13.1-1077. Articles of domestication
§ 13.1-1078. Surrender of articles of organization upon domestication
§ 13.1-1079. Effect of domestication
§ 13.1-1080. Abandonment of domestication
§ 13.1-1082. Entity conversion
§ 13.1-1083. Plan of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1084. Action on plan of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1085. Articles of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1086. Effect of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1087. Abandonment of entity conversion
§ 13.1-1089. Nature of protected series
§ 13.1-1090. Powers and duration of protected series
§ 13.1-1092. Relation of operating agreement, this article, and the other articles of this chapter
§ 13.1-1093. Additional limitations on operating agreement
§ 13.1-1095. Protected series designation; amendment
§ 13.1-1097. Registered office and registered agent
§ 13.1-1098. Service of process, notice, or demand
§ 13.1-1099. Effectiveness of notice
§ 13.1-1099.1. Annual registration fees
§ 13.1-1099.2. Associated assets
§ 13.1-1099.3. Associated members
§ 13.1-1099.4. Protected series membership interests
§ 13.1-1099.7. Limitations on liability
§ 13.1-1099.8. Claim seeking to disregard limitation of liability
§ 13.1-1099.9. Remedies of judgment creditor of associated member or protected series assignee
§ 13.1-1099.10. Enforcement of claim against non-associated asset
§ 13.1-1099.11. Events causing dissolution of protected series
§ 13.1-1099.12. Winding up dissolved protected series; voluntary cancellation
§ 13.1-1099.14. Protected series may not be party to entity transaction
§ 13.1-1099.16. Merger authorized; parties restricted
§ 13.1-1099.17. Plan of merger
§ 13.1-1099.18. Articles of merger
§ 13.1-1099.19. Effect of merger
§ 13.1-1099.20. Application of § 13.1-1099.10 after merger
§ 13.1-1099.25. Uniformity of application and construction
§ 13.1-1099.26. Effect on certain actions
§ 13.1-1099.27. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act