Not worth fighting it, of course. But unless they bought the company out of bankruptcy, you don't get to choose to buy a company's assets but ignore their liabi

Not worth fighting it, of course. But unless they bought the company out of bankruptcy, you don't get to choose to buy a company's assets but ignore their liabilities. That would be like buying a company that owes money on a building and telling the bank that you won't be making payments because you are keeping the building, but not the debt. That's why a big part of mergers and acquisitions is researching all the possible liabilities that may exist for the company to be acquired.