(1) A domestic limited liability company may convert into a different type of domestic entity or into a foreign entity that is a foreign limited liability company or a different type of foreign entity by approving a plan of conversion. The plan must be in a record and contain the following:

(a) The name of the converting limited liability company.

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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 605.1042

  • Conversion: means a transaction authorized under ss. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Converted entity: means the converting entity as it continues in existence after a conversion. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Entity: means :
  • Filing entity: means an entity whose formation requires the filing of a public organic record. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Foreign limited liability company: means an unincorporated entity that was formed in a jurisdiction other than this state and is denominated by that law as a limited liability company. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Jurisdiction of formation: means , with respect to an entity:
    (a) The jurisdiction under whose organic law the entity is formed, incorporated, or created or otherwise comes into being; however, for these purposes, if an entity exists under the law of a jurisdiction different from the jurisdiction under which the entity originally was formed, incorporated, or created or otherwise came into being, then the jurisdiction under which the entity then exists is treated as the jurisdiction of formation; or
    (b) In the case of a limited liability partnership or foreign limited liability partnership, the jurisdiction in which the partnership's statement of qualification or equivalent document is filed. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Organic rules: means the public organic record and private organic rules of an entity. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Plan: means a plan of merger, plan of interest exchange, plan of conversion, or plan of domestication, as appropriate in the particular context. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Plan of conversion: means a plan under…. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Property: means all property, whether real, personal, mixed, tangible, or intangible, or a right or interest therein. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Public organic record: means a record, the filing of which by a governmental body is required to form an entity, and an amendment to or restatement of that record. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Type of entity: means a generic form of entity that is:
    (a) Recognized at common law; or
    (b) Formed under an organic law, whether or not some of the entities formed under that organic law are subject to provisions of that law which create different categories of the form of entity. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
(b) The name, jurisdiction of formation, and type of entity of the converted entity.
(c) The manner and basis of converting the interests and rights to acquire interests in the converting limited liability company into interests, securities, obligations, money, other property, rights to acquire interests or securities, or any combination of the foregoing.
(d) The proposed public organic record of the converted entity, if it will be a filing entity.
(e) The full text of the private organic rules of the converted entity which are proposed to be in a record, if any.
(f) Any other provision required by the law of this state or the organic rules of the converted limited liability company, if the entity is to be an entity other than a domestic limited liability company.
(g) All other statements required to be set forth in a plan of conversion by the law of the jurisdiction of formation of the converted entity following the conversion.
(2) In addition to the requirements of subsection (1), a plan of conversion may contain any other provision not prohibited by law.