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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71876</law_id><section_number>13.1-897</section_number><catch_line>Effect of merger</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>6.2-1344</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="13.1">Corporations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="10">Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="11">Merger</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> When a <span class="dictionary">merger</span> becomes effective: <a id="paragraph-258963" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The domestic or <span class="dictionary">foreign corporation</span> or <span class="dictionary">eligible entity</span> that is designated in the plan of <span class="dictionary">merger</span> as the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> continues or comes into existence as the case may be; <a id="paragraph-258964" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The separate existence of every domestic or <span class="dictionary">foreign corporation</span> or <span class="dictionary">eligible entity</span> that is merged into the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> ceases; <a id="paragraph-258965" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Property owned by and, except to the extent that assignment would violate a contractual prohibition on assignment by operation of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, every <span class="dictionary">contract</span> right possessed by each domestic or <span class="dictionary">foreign corporation</span> or <span class="dictionary">eligible entity</span> that merges into the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> is vested in the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> without reversion or impairment; <a id="paragraph-258966" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> All liabilities of each domestic or <span class="dictionary">foreign corporation</span> or <span class="dictionary">eligible entity</span> that is merged into the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> are vested in the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span>; <a id="paragraph-258967" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> The name of the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> may, but need not be, substituted in any pending <span class="dictionary">proceeding</span> for the name of any <span class="dictionary">party</span> to the <span class="dictionary">merger</span> whose separate existence ceased in the <span class="dictionary">merger</span>; <a id="paragraph-258968" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#A5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A6" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> The <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> or <span class="dictionary">organic document</span> of the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> is amended to the extent provided in the plan of <span class="dictionary">merger</span>; <a id="paragraph-258969" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#A6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A7" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> The <span class="dictionary">articles of incorporation</span> or <span class="dictionary">organic document</span> of a <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> that is created by the <span class="dictionary">merger</span> becomes effective; and <a id="paragraph-258970" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#A7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A8" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> The <span class="dictionary">membership interests</span> of each domestic or <span class="dictionary">foreign corporation</span> that is a <span class="dictionary">party</span> to the <span class="dictionary">merger</span> and the <span class="dictionary">eligible interests</span> in an <span class="dictionary">eligible entity</span> that is a <span class="dictionary">party</span> to the <span class="dictionary">merger</span> that are to be converted under the plan of <span class="dictionary">merger</span> into <span class="dictionary">membership interests</span>, <span class="dictionary">eligible interests</span> or other securities, obligations, rights to acquire <span class="dictionary">membership interests</span>, <span class="dictionary">eligible interests</span> or other securities, cash, other property, or any combination of the foregoing, are converted, and the former holders of such <span class="dictionary">membership interests</span> or <span class="dictionary">eligible interests</span> are entitled only to the rights provided to them in the plan of <span class="dictionary">merger</span> or to any rights they may have under the <span class="dictionary">organic law</span> of the <span class="dictionary">eligible entity</span>. <a id="paragraph-258971" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#A8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Upon a <span class="dictionary">merger</span>&#x2019;s becoming effective, a <span class="dictionary">foreign corporation</span> or a foreign <span class="dictionary">eligible entity</span> that is the <span class="dictionary">survivor</span> of the <span class="dictionary">merger</span> is deemed to appoint the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> as its agent for <span class="dictionary">service of process</span> in a <span class="dictionary">proceeding</span> to enforce the rights of <span class="dictionary">members</span> of each <span class="dictionary">domestic corporation</span> that is a <span class="dictionary">party</span> to the <span class="dictionary">merger</span>. <a id="paragraph-258972" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> No corporation that is required by law to be a <span class="dictionary">domestic corporation</span> may, by <span class="dictionary">merger</span>, cease to be a <span class="dictionary">domestic corporation</span>, but every such corporation, even though a corporation of some other <span class="dictionary">state</span>, the <span class="dictionary">United States</span>, or another country, shall also be a <span class="dictionary">domestic corporation</span> of the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-258973" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-897/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 13.1-245; 1956, c. 428; 1975, c. 500; 1985, c. 522; 2007, c. 925.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
