Comment by DannyBee

There are many ways to accomplish this, for example, doing it as an asset purchase instead of acquiring all the stock.

In the former, you can take the assets (including employee contracts) without the liabilities.

There's actually a reasonable quora answer (for once) on this, saving me from writing it up for you :)

https://www.quora.com/What-happens-to-legal-contracts-financ...