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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63352</law_id><section_number>13.1-1073.1</section_number><catch_line>Abandonment of merger</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="13.1">Corporations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="12">Virginia Limited Liability Company Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="13">Merger</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Unless otherwise provided in the plan of merger or in the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> under which a <span class="dictionary">foreign <span class="dictionary">limited liability company</span></span> or a domestic or foreign <span class="dictionary">other business entity</span> that is a <span class="dictionary">party to a merger</span> is organized or by which it is governed, after a plan of merger has been approved as required by this article, and at any time before the certificate of merger has become effective, the plan may be abandoned by a <span class="dictionary">domestic <span class="dictionary">limited liability company</span></span> that is a party to the plan without action by its <span class="dictionary">members</span> in accordance with any procedures set forth in the plan or, if no procedures are set forth in the plan, by a vote of the <span class="dictionary">members</span> of the <span class="dictionary">limited liability company</span> that is equal to or greater than the vote cast for the plan pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Action on a plan of merger" href="/13.1-1071/">13.1-1071</a>, subject to any contractual rights of other parties to the plan of merger. <a id="paragraph-230874" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1073.1/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If a merger is abandoned after articles of merger have been filed with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> but before the certificate of merger has become effective, in <span class="dictionary">order</span> for the certificate of merger to be abandoned, all parties to the plan of merger shall sign a statement of abandonment and deliver it to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> for filing prior to the effective time and date of the certificate of merger. If the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> finds that the statement of abandonment complies with the requirements of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, it shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a certificate of abandonment, effective as of the date and time the statement of abandonment was received by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, and the merger shall be deemed abandoned and shall not become effective. <a id="paragraph-230875" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1073.1/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The statement of abandonment shall contain: <a id="paragraph-230876" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1073.1/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The name of each domestic and <span class="dictionary">foreign <span class="dictionary">limited liability company</span></span> and <span class="dictionary">other business entity</span> that is a party to the merger and its <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction of formation</span> and entity type; <a id="paragraph-230877" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1073.1/#C1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> When the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> will be a domestic stock or nonstock corporation created by the merger, the name of the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> set forth in the articles of merger; <a id="paragraph-230878" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1073.1/#C2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The date on which the articles of merger were filed with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>; <a id="paragraph-230879" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1073.1/#C3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The date and time on which the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>&#x2019;s certificate of merger becomes effective; and <a id="paragraph-230880" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1073.1/#C4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> A statement that the merger is being abandoned in accordance with this section. <a id="paragraph-230881" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1073.1/#C5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2016, c. 288; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 487.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
