body: Company A and Company B have a business relationship lasting for years. All kinds of agreements are in place between them. License Agreements, Supply Agreements, Development Agreements and so on.
  
  
  Company A gets acquired by Company C. After closing, former Company A now operates as Company AC.
  What happens to all the existing contracts where Company A was a Party?
  Do they get automatically transferred?
  
  
  Having to assign all the existing contracts seems to be an "impossible" task, but i do not know the leagl basis for the transfer. Can anyone shed some light both in US and European jurisdictions?
  
  
  
title: Do existing contracts get automatically transferred to the acquiring company?