South Carolina § 33-44-801 - Events causing dissolution and winding up of company's business.

§ 33-44-801. Events causing dissolution and winding up of company's business.

A limited liability company is dissolved, and its business must be wound up, upon the occurrence of any of the following events:

(1) an event specified in the operating agreement;

(2) consent of the number or percentage of members specified in the operating agreement;

(3) an event that makes it unlawful for all or substantially all of the business of the company to be continued, but a cure of illegality within ninety days after notice to the company of the event is effective retroactively to the date of the event for purposes of this section;

(4) on application by a member or a dissociated member, upon entry of a judicial decree that:

(a) the economic purpose of the company is likely to be unreasonably frustrated;

(b) another member has engaged in conduct relating to the company's business that makes it not reasonably practicable to carry on the company's business with that member;

(c) it is not otherwise reasonably practicable to carry on the company's business in conformity with the articles of organization and the operating agreement;

(d) the company failed to purchase the petitioner's distributional interest after giving effect to provisions of the operating agreement modifying or superseding the provisions of Section 33-44-701; or

(e) the managers or members in control of the company have acted, are acting, or will act in a manner that is unlawful, oppressive, fraudulent, or unfairly prejudicial to the petitioner;

(5) on application by a transferee of a member's interest, a judicial determination that it is equitable to wind up the company's business:

(a) after the expiration of the specified term, if the company was for a specified term at the time the applicant became a transferee by way of member dissociation, transfer, or entry of a charging order that gave rise to the transfer; or

(b) at any time, if the company existed at will at the time the applicant became a transferee by way of member dissociation, transfer, or entry of a charging order that gave rise to the transfer.

HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 343, SECTION 2; 1998 Act No. 442, SECTION 6; 2004 Act No. 221, SECTION 30.