(1) When a domestication becomes effective:

(a) The domesticated limited liability company is:

1. Organized under and subject to the organic law of this state; and
2. The same entity, without interruption, as the domesticating entity;

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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 605.1056

  • Articles of organization: means the articles of organization required under…. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Domesticated limited liability company: means the domesticating entity as it continues in existence after a domestication. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Domesticating entity: means a non-United States entity that approves a domestication pursuant to the law of its jurisdiction of formation. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Domestication: means a transaction authorized under ss. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Entity: means :
  • Interest: means :
    (a) A share in a business corporation;
    (b) A membership in a nonprofit corporation;
    (c) A partnership interest in a general partnership;
    (d) A partnership interest in a limited partnership;
    (e) A membership interest in a limited liability company;
    (f) A share or beneficial interest in a real estate investment trust;
    (g) A member's interest in a limited cooperative association;
    (h) A beneficial interest in a statutory trust, business trust, or common law business trust; or
    (i) A governance interest or distributional interest in another entity. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Interest holder: means :
    (a) A shareholder of a business corporation;
    (b) A member of a nonprofit corporation;
    (c) A general partner of a general partnership;
    (d) A general partner of a limited partnership;
    (e) A limited partner of a limited partnership;
    (f) A member of a limited liability company;
    (g) A shareholder or beneficial owner of a real estate investment trust;
    (h) A beneficiary or beneficial owner of a statutory trust, business trust, or common law business trust; or
    (i) Another direct holder of an interest. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Interest holder liability: means :
    (a) Personal liability for a liability of an entity which is imposed on a person:
  • 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.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Organic law: means the law of the jurisdiction in which an entity was formed. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Organic rules: means the public organic record and private organic rules of an entity. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
  • Person: means an individual, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited cooperative association, unincorporated nonprofit association, statutory trust, business trust, common law business trust, estate, trust, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or another legal or commercial 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 domestication: 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
  • 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
  • Transfer: includes :
    (a) An assignment. See Florida Statutes 605.0102
(b) All property of the domesticating entity continues to be vested in the domesticated limited liability company without transfer, reversion, or impairment;
(c) All debts, obligations, and other liabilities of the domesticating entity continue as debts, obligations, and other liabilities of the domesticated limited liability company;
(d) Except as otherwise provided by law or the plan of domestication, all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers, and purposes of the domesticating entity remain in the domesticated limited liability company;
(e) The name of the domesticated limited liability company may be substituted for the name of the domesticating entity in any pending action or proceeding;
(f) The articles of organization of the domesticated limited liability company are effective;
(g) The provisions of the private organic rules of the domesticated limited liability company which are to be in a record, if any, approved as part of the plan of domestication are effective; and
(h) The interests in the domesticating entity are converted to the extent and as approved in connection with the domestication, and the interest holders of the domesticating entity are entitled only to the rights provided to them under the plan of domestication.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in the organic law or organic rules of the domesticating entity, the domestication does not give rise to any rights that an interest holder or third party would otherwise have upon a dissolution, liquidation, or winding up of the domesticating entity.
(3) When a domestication becomes effective, a person who did not have interest holder liability with respect to the domesticating entity and becomes subject to interest holder liability with respect to the domesticated limited liability company as a result of the domestication has interest holder liability only to the extent provided by the organic law of the domesticating entity and only for those debts, obligations, and other liabilities that arise after the domestication becomes effective.
(4) When a domestication becomes effective, the interest holder liability of a person who ceases to hold an interest in a domestic limited liability company with respect to which the person had interest holder liability is as follows:

(a) The domestication does not discharge any interest holder liability under this chapter to the extent the interest holder liability arose before the domestication became effective;
(b) A person does not have interest holder liability under this chapter for any debt, obligation, or other liability that arises after the domestication becomes effective; and
(c) The organic law of the jurisdiction of formation of the domesticating entity and any rights of contribution provided under such law, or the organic rules of the domesticating entity, continue to apply to the release, collection, or discharge of any interest holder liability preserved under paragraph (a) as if the domestication had not occurred.
(5) When a domestication becomes effective, a domesticating entity that has become the domesticated limited liability company may be served with process in this state for the collection and enforcement of its debts, obligations, and liabilities as provided in s. 605.0117 and chapter 48.
(6) If the domesticating entity is qualified to transact business in this state, the certificate of authority of the domesticating entity is canceled when the domestication becomes effective.
(7) A domestication does not require the domesticating entity to wind up its affairs and does not constitute or cause the dissolution of the domesticating entity.