Any person who has made a control share acquisition or who holds of record ten percent (10%) or more of the outstanding shares of the corporation and who announces a good faith intention to make a control share acquisition may deliver to the corporation personally or by registered mail at its principal place of business and at its registered office in this state, a control share acquisition statement which shall contain the following:

(1) The identity of the acquiring person and any associate of the acquiring person;
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 48-103-304

  • Associate: when used to indicate a relationship with any person means:
    (A) A person that directly or indirectly controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, the person specified or who is or intends to act jointly or in concert with such specified person. See Tennessee Code 48-103-302
  • Business: includes every trade, occupation, profession, investment activity and other lawful purpose for gain or the preservation of assets whether or not carried on for profits. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Class: when used with reference to membership interests, means a category of membership interests that differs in one (1) or more rights or preferences from another category of membership interests of the LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Control: means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a person whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. See Tennessee Code 48-103-302
  • Control share acquisition: means the acquisition, directly or indirectly, by any person of ownership of, or the power to direct the exercise of voting power with respect to, issued and outstanding control shares. See Tennessee Code 48-103-302
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: means a corporation organized under the laws of Tennessee which has become subject to this part pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-103-302
  • Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity and any "associate" (as defined in subdivision (1)) of such individual or entity. See Tennessee Code 48-103-302
  • Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Registered office: means the place in this state designated in the articles as the registered office of the LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the bylaws or the board of directors has delegated responsibility under §. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • Secretary of state: means the person who holds the office of secretary of state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Series: means a category of membership interests, within a class of membership interests, that have some of the same rights and preferences as other membership interests within the same class, but that differ in one (1) or more rights and preferences from another category of membership interests within that class. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Share: means the unit into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • 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
(2) A statement that it is being made and delivered pursuant to the Tennessee Control Share Acquisition Act;
(3) If the acquiring person is not a resident of this state, an agreement that the acquiring person may be served with process in this state in any proceeding arising out of or relating to the control share acquisition and irrevocably appointing the secretary of state as its agent to accept service of process in any such proceeding, specifying the address to which a copy of such process shall be mailed by the secretary of state;
(4) The number and class or series of shares of the corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the acquiring person and each associate of the acquiring person prior to the control share acquisition;
(5) The number and class or series of shares acquired or proposed to be acquired pursuant to the control share acquisition and the range of voting power within which the control share acquisition is or, if consummated, would be, as such ranges are defined in § 48-103-302(4); and
(6) A description of the terms and conditions of the proposed or completed control share acquisition including, but not limited to, the prices paid by the acquiring person in a control share acquisition, the dates upon which the shares were acquired, and if the control share acquisition has not taken place, a statement by the acquiring person with respect to the acquiring person’s financial capacity to consummate the proposed control share acquisition together with a concise description of the material facts upon which the statement is based.
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