The contracts often say that. In practice, it's never used and vendors generally behave pretty reasonably. I work for a company that has made numerous acquisiti

The contracts often say that. In practice, it's never used and vendors generally behave pretty reasonably. I work for a company that has made numerous acquisitions over the past few years. Sometimes it's not an acquisition and the other company has dissolved and the key people have accepted positions with us without transferring any assets or liabilities. I've never had a vendor forbid us from transferring licenses in either case. In fact, they usually reach out pretty quickly to update the name, contact info, etc. With some of the niche enterprise stuff, it's good business for them because the alternative probably means losing a customer. They'd rather let us keep using the software and likely pay for at least one annual renewal than try to hit us up for new licenses and we tell them to take a hike. Even huge vendors will do it though. Microsoft has let me transfer licenses before. That kind of language in the contract is basically to prevent you from selling/transferring the license to some other unrelated company.