179.0802 Winding up.
(1) A dissolved limited partnership shall wind up its activities and affairs and, except as otherwise provided in s. 179.0803, the partnership continues after dissolution only for the purpose of winding up.
(2)
(a) In winding up its activities and affairs, a limited partnership shall discharge the partnership's debts, obligations, and other liabilities, settle and close the partnership's activities and affairs, and marshal and distribute the assets of the partnership.
(b) In winding up its activities and affairs, a limited partnership may do any of the following:
1. Amend its certificate of limited partnership to state that the partnership is dissolved.
2. Preserve the partnership's activities and affairs and property as a going concern for a reasonable time.
3. Prosecute and defend actions and proceedings, whether civil, criminal, or administrative.
4. Transfer the partnership's property.
5. Settle disputes by mediation or arbitration.
6. Deliver to the department for filing a statement of termination stating the name of the partnership and that the partnership is terminated.
7. Perform other acts necessary or appropriate to the winding up.
(3) If a dissolved limited partnership does not have a general partner, a person to wind up the dissolved partnership's activities and affairs may be appointed by the affirmative vote or consent of limited partners owning a majority of the rights to receive distributions as limited partners at the time the vote or consent is to be effective. All of the following apply to a person appointed under this subsection:
(a) The person has the powers of a general partner under s. 179.0804 but is not liable for the debts, obligations, and other liabilities of the partnership solely by reason of having or exercising those powers or otherwise acting to wind up the dissolved partnership's activities and affairs.
(b) The person shall deliver promptly to the department for filing an amendment to the partnership's certificate of limited partnership stating all of the following:
1. That the partnership does not have a general partner.
2. The name and street and mailing addresses of the person.
3. That the person has been appointed pursuant to this subsection to wind up the partnership.
(4) On the application of a partner, the circuit court may order judicial supervision of the winding up of a dissolved limited partnership, including the appointment of a person to wind up the partnership's activities and affairs, if any of the following applies:
(a) The partnership does not have a general partner and within a reasonable time following the dissolution no person has been appointed pursuant to sub. (3).
(b) The applicant establishes other good cause.
History: 2021 a. 258.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 179 - Uniform limited partnership law.
179.0105 - Partnership agreement; scope, function, and limitations.
179.0108 - Required information.
179.0110 - Nature, purpose, and duration of limited partnership.
179.0113 - Supplemental principles of law.
179.0115 - Reservation of name.
179.0116 - Registration of name.
179.0117 - Registered agent and registered office.
179.0118 - Change of registered agent or registered office by limited partnership.
179.0119 - Resignation of registered agent.
179.0120 - Change of name or address by registered agent.
179.0121 - Service of process, notice, or demand.
179.0122 - Delivery of record.
179.0124 - Filing fees; certified copies.
179.0201 - Formation of limited partnership; certificate of limited partnership.
179.0202 - Amendment or restatement of certificate of limited partnership.
179.0203 - Signing of records to be delivered for filing to the department.
179.0204 - Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order.
179.0205 - Liability for inaccurate information in filed record.
179.0206 - Filing requirements.
179.0207 - Effective date and time.
179.0208 - Withdrawal of filed record before effectiveness.
179.0209 - Correcting filed record.
179.0210 - Duty of department to file; review of refusal to file; delivery of record by department.
179.0211 - Certificate of status.
179.0212 - Annual report for department.
179.0301 - Becoming limited partner.
179.0302 - No agency power of limited partner as limited partner.
179.0303 - No liability as limited partner for limited partnership obligations.
179.0304 - Rights to information of limited partner and person dissociated as limited partner.
179.0305 - Limited duties of limited partners.
179.0306 - Person erroneously believing self to be limited partner.
179.0401 - Becoming general partner.
179.0402 - General partner agent of limited partnership.
179.04023 - Statement of partnership authority.
179.04025 - Statement of denial.
179.0403 - Limited partnership liable for general partner's actionable conduct.
179.0404 - General partner's liability.
179.0405 - Actions against partnership and partners.
179.0406 - Management rights of general partner.
179.0407 - Rights to information of general partner and person dissociated as general partner.
179.0408 - Reimbursement; indemnification; advancement; and insurance.
179.0409 - Standards of conduct for general partners.
179.0501 - Form of contribution.
179.0502 - Liability for contribution.
179.0503 - Sharing of and right to distributions before dissolution.
179.0504 - Limitations on distributions.
179.0505 - Liability for improper distributions.
179.0601 - Dissociation as limited partner.
179.0602 - Effect of dissociation as limited partner.
179.0603 - Dissociation as general partner.
179.0604 - Power to dissociate as general partner; wrongful dissociation.
179.0605 - Effect of dissociation as general partner.
179.0606 - Power to bind and liability of person dissociated as general partner.
179.0607 - Liability of person dissociated as general partner to other persons.
179.0701 - Nature of transferable interest.
179.0702 - Transfer of transferable interest.
179.0704 - Power of legal representative of deceased partner.
179.0801 - Events causing dissolution.
179.0803 - Rescinding dissolution.
179.0804 - Power to bind partnership after dissolution.
179.0805 - Liability after dissolution of general partner and person dissociated as general partner.
179.0806 - Known claims against dissolved limited partnership.
179.0807 - Claims against dissolved limited partnership generally.
179.0810 - Disposition of assets in winding up; when contributions required.
179.0811 - Administrative dissolution.
179.0813 - Appeal from denial of reinstatement.
179.0901 - Direct action by partner.
179.0905 - Special litigation committee.
179.0906 - Proceeds and expenses.
179.1002 - Registration to do business in this state.
179.1003 - Foreign registration statement.
179.1004 - Amendment of foreign registration statement.
179.1005 - Activities not constituting doing business.
179.1006 - Noncomplying name of foreign limited partnership.
179.1009 - Transfer of registration.
179.10101 - Grounds for termination.
179.10102 - Procedure for and effect of termination.
179.10103 - Appeal from termination.
179.1011 - Withdrawal of registration of registered foreign limited partnership.
179.1012 - Action by attorney general.
179.1102 - Relationship of subchapter to other laws.
179.1105 - Reference to external facts.
179.1123 - Approval of merger; amendment; abandonment.
179.1124 - Filings required for merger; effective date.
179.1131 - Interest exchange authorized.
179.1132 - Plan of interest exchange.
179.1133 - Approval of interest exchange; amendment; abandonment.
179.1134 - Filings required for interest exchange; effective date.
179.1135 - Effect of interest exchange.
179.1141 - Conversion authorized.
179.1142 - Plan of conversion.
179.1143 - Approval of conversion; amendment; abandonment.
179.1144 - Filings required for conversion; effective date.
179.1145 - Effect of conversion.
179.1151 - Domestication authorized.
179.1152 - Plan of domestication.
179.1153 - Approval of domestication; amendment; abandonment.
179.1154 - Filings required for domestication; effective date.
179.1155 - Effect of domestication.
179.1161 - Restrictions on approval of mergers, interest exchanges, conversions, and domestications.
179.1201 - Uniformity of application and construction.
179.1202 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.