(a) When a merger takes effect:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 61-1-906

  • domestic: means a partnership that has filed an application for registration as a registered limited liability partnership under §. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
  • foreign: means a partnership that:
    (A) Is formed under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Partnership: means an association of two (2) or more persons to carry on as co-owners of a business or other undertaking for profit formed under §. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
  • Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
  • Secretary of state: means the secretary of state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(1) The separate existence of every partnership or limited partnership that is a party to the merger, other than the surviving entity, ceases;
(2) All property owned by each of the merged partnerships or limited partnerships vests in the surviving entity;
(3) All obligations of every partnership or limited partnership that is a party to the merger become the obligations of the surviving entity; and
(4) An action or proceeding pending against a partnership or limited partnership that is a party to the merger may be continued as if the merger had not occurred, or the surviving entity may be substituted as a party to the action or proceeding.
(b) The secretary of state of this state is the agent for service of process in an action or proceeding against a surviving foreign partnership or limited partnership to enforce an obligation of a domestic partnership or limited partnership that is a party to a merger. The surviving entity shall promptly notify the secretary of state of the mailing address of its chief executive office and of any change of address. Upon receipt of process, the secretary of state shall mail a copy of the process to the surviving foreign partnership or limited partnership.
(c) A partner of the surviving partnership or limited partnership is liable for:

(1) All obligations of a party to the merger for which the partner was personally liable before the merger;
(2) All other obligations of the surviving entity incurred before the merger by a party to the merger, but those obligations may be satisfied only out of property of the entity; and
(3) All obligations of the surviving entity incurred after the merger takes effect, but those obligations may be satisfied only out of property of the entity if the partner is a limited partner.
(d) If the obligations incurred before the merger by a party to the merger are not satisfied out of the property of the surviving partnership or limited partnership, the general partners of that party immediately before the effective date of the merger shall contribute the amount necessary to satisfy that party’s obligations to the surviving entity, in the manner provided in § 61-1-807 or in the provisions of any limited partnership act of the jurisdiction in which the party was formed, as the case may be, as if the merged party were dissolved.
(e) A partner of a party to a merger who does not become a partner of the surviving partnership or limited partnership is dissociated from the entity, of which that partner was a partner, as of the date the merger takes effect. The surviving entity shall cause the partner’s interest in the entity to be purchased under § 61-1-701 or another statute specifically applicable to that partner’s interest with respect to a merger. The surviving entity is bound under § 61-1-702 by an act of a general partner dissociated under this subsection (e), and the partner is liable under § 61-1-703 for transactions entered into by the surviving entity after the merger takes effect.
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