The company or companies benefiting from the contributions resulting from the transaction referred to in Article L. 236-27 and the company contributing part of its assets shall be jointly and severally liable to the bondholders and non-bondholder creditors of the company contributing part of its assets, in place of the latter, without such substitution entailing novation with regard to them.
The maximum amount of the joint and several liability of any company involved in the demerger is limited to the value, on the date on which the transaction takes effect, of the net assets allocated to it.