Agreements intended to prohibit the lessee from assigning his lease or the rights he holds under this chapter to the purchaser of his business or enterprise or to the beneficiary of the universal transfer of his business assets are also deemed unwritten, regardless of the form they take.
In the event of a merger or demerger of companies, in the event of a universal transfer of a company’s assets and liabilities carried out under the conditions provided for in article 1844-5 of the Civil Code or in the event of the contribution of part of a company’s assets carried out under the conditions provided for in article L. 236-27 of this Code, the company resulting from the merger, the company designated by the demerger agreement or, failing that, the companies resulting from the demerger, the company benefiting from the universal transfer of assets or the company benefiting from the contribution are, notwithstanding any stipulation to the contrary, substituted for the company in whose favour the lease was granted in all the rights and obligations arising from that lease.
In the event of a transfer or in the cases provided for in the second paragraph, if the guarantee obligation can no longer be ensured under the terms of the agreement, the court may substitute any guarantees that it deems sufficient.