Tennessee § 48-21-109 - Entity conversion.

§ 48-21-109. Entity conversion.

A domestic business corporation may become a domestic unincorporated entity pursuant to a plan of entity conversion. A domestic business corporation may become a foreign unincorporated entity if the entity conversion is permitted by the laws of the foreign jurisdiction. A domestic unincorporated entity may become a domestic business corporation. If the organic law of a domestic unincorporated entity does not provide procedures for the approval of an entity conversion, the conversion shall be adopted and approved, and the entity conversion effectuated, in the same manner as a merger of the unincorporated entity. If the organic law of a domestic unincorporated entity does not provide procedures for the approval of either an entity conversion or a merger, a plan of entity conversion shall be adopted and approved, the entity conversion effectuated, and dissenters' rights exercised, in accordance with the procedures in this chapter and chapter 23 of this title. Without limiting this subsection (c), a domestic unincorporated entity whose organic law does not provide procedures for the approval of an entity conversion shall be subject to subsection (e) and § 48-21-111(7). For purposes of applying this chapter and chapter 23 of this title: The unincorporated entity, its interest holders, interests, and organic documents taken together, shall be deemed to be a domestic business corporation, shareholders, shares, and charters, respectively, and vice versa, as the context may require; and If the business and affairs of the unincorporated entity are managed by a group of persons that is not identical to the interest holders, that group shall be deemed to be the board of directors. A foreign unincorporated entity may become a domestic business corporation if the organic law of the foreign unincorporated entity authorizes it to become a corporation in another jurisdiction. If any provision of a debt security, note or similar evidence of indebtedness for money borrowed, whether secured or unsecured, or a contract of any kind, issued, incurred or executed by a domestic business corporation before January 1, 2013, applies to a merger of the corporation and the document does not refer to an entity conversion of the corporation, the provision shall be deemed to apply to an entity conversion of the corporation until such time as the provision is amended on or subsequent to January 1, 2013. Acts 1986, ch. 887, § 11.07; 1994, ch. 776, §§ 42, 43; T.C.A., § 48-21-107 ; Acts 2012, ch. 1051, § 39. Textbooks. Tennessee Forms (Robinson, Ramsey and Harwell), Nos. 5-806, 5-810.