(a)Conflict and Procedure When Conflict Arises. A contract or other transaction between an LLC and one (1) or more of its members, or between a member-managed LLC and an organization in or of which one (1) or more of its members are governors, directors, managers, officers, partners, fiduciaries or similar equivalent or have a material financial interest, is not voidable because the member or members or the other organizations are parties or because the member or members are present at the meeting of the members or a committee at which the contract or transaction is authorized, approved, or ratified, if:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 48-240-103

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Directors: means natural persons, designated in the charter or bylaws or elected or appointed by the incorporators, and their successors and natural persons elected or appointed to act as members of the board, irrespective of the names or titles by which such persons are described. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
  • Distribution: means a direct or indirect transfer of money or other property (except its own membership interests) with or without consideration, or an incurrence or issuance of indebtedness, (whether directly or indirectly, including through a guaranty) by an LLC to or for the benefit of any of its members in respect of membership interests. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Employee: includes an officer but not a director. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • Interest: means either or both of the following rights under the organic law of an unincorporated entity:
    (A) The right to receive distributions from the entity either in the ordinary course or upon liquidation. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • LLC: means a limited liability company, organized under chapters 201-248 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Manager: means a person elected, appointed, or otherwise designated as a manager by the governing body, and any other person considered elected as a manager pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Member: means a person reflected in the required records of an LLC as the owner of some governance rights of a membership interest of the LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Member-managed: means an LLC organized pursuant to this title that has elected pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Membership: means the rights and obligations a member has pursuant to a corporation's charter, bylaws and chapters 51-68 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
  • Membership interest: means a member's interest in an LLC consisting of a member's financial rights, a member's right to assign financial rights as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Operating agreement: means a written agreement described in §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Owners: means members in the case of an LLC, shareholders in the case of a corporation, partners in the case of general or limited partnerships and the equivalent with respect to other entities. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Person: includes individual and entity. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Voting power: means the total number of votes entitled to be cast for the election of directors at the time the determination of voting power is made, excluding a vote which is contingent upon the happening of a condition or event that has not occurred at the time. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
(1) The contract or transaction was, and the person asserting the validity of the contract or transaction sustains the burden of establishing that the contract or transaction was, fair and reasonable as to the LLC at the time it was authorized, approved, or ratified;
(2) The material facts as to the contract or transaction and as to the member’s or members’ interest are fully disclosed or known to the members and, unless the articles or operating agreement requires the specific approval of subdivision (a)(2)(A) or (a)(2)(B), the contract or transaction is approved in good faith by either:

(A) The owners of a majority of the voting power of the membership interests entitled to vote that are owned by persons other than the interested member or members; or
(B) The owners of a majority of the financial interest of the membership interests that are owned by persons other than the interested member or members;
(3) The material facts as to the contract or transaction and as to the member’s or members’ interest are fully disclosed or known to the members or a committee, and the members or committee authorizes, approves, or ratifies the contract or transaction in good faith by a majority of the membership interest entitled to vote or committee members, but the interested member or members must not be counted in determining the presence of a quorum and must not vote;
(4) The material facts of the transaction and the member’s or members’ interest were disclosed or known to a committee of not less than three (3) members, none of whom had a direct or indirect interest in the transaction, and such committee authorized, approved or ratified the transaction;
(5) The contract or transaction is a distribution described in chapter 236 of this title or a merger or sale of assets described in chapter 244 of this title; or
(6) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this section, the articles or operating agreement may define the standard of conduct of the members in a manner to reflect the understanding of the parties; provided, that such definition is not manifestly unreasonable under the circumstances.
(b)Material Financial Interest. For purposes of this section:

(1) A member does not have a material financial interest in a resolution fixing the compensation of a manager, employee, or agent of the LLC, even though the member is also receiving compensation from the LLC; and
(2) A member has a material financial interest in each organization in which the member, or the spouse, parents, children and spouses of children, brothers and sisters and spouses of brothers and sisters of the member, or other lineal descendants of the member, or any combination of them, has a material financial interest.
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