The court shall determine the leasing, rental or supply contracts for goods or services necessary to maintain the business in the light of the observations of the debtor’s co-contractors transmitted to the liquidator or the administrator where one has been appointed.
The judgment adopting the plan entails the assignment of these contracts, even where the assignment is preceded by the management lease provided for in Article L. 642-13.
These contracts must be performed under the conditions in force on the day the proceedings are opened, notwithstanding any clause to the contrary. By way of derogation, any clause imposing on the transferee of a lease joint and several provisions with the transferor shall be deemed unwritten.
The court may, if a lease contract subject to Chapter V of Title IV of Book I relating to one or more buildings or premises used for the business’s activity is included in the transfer plan, authorise in the judgment adopting the plan the transferee to add related or complementary activities to the activity provided for in the contract. The court shall rule after hearing or duly summoning the lessor.
In the event of the assignment of a leasing contract, the lessee may only exercise the purchase option in the event of payment of the sums remaining due within the limit of the value of the asset set by mutual agreement between the parties or, failing that, by the court on the date of the assignment.
The agreement in execution of which the settlor debtor retains the use or enjoyment of assets or rights transferred by way of security into a trust estate may not be assigned to the assignee, unless the beneficiaries of the trust agreement agree.
The co-contractor whose contract has not been the subject of the assignment provided for in the second paragraph may ask the juge-commissaire to order its termination if its continued performance is not requested by the liquidator.