Key legal question
Whether the bankrupt company could continue the lease-transfer proceedings in its own name after bankruptcy.
Extracted holding
No. The right to conduct the proceedings belonged to the bankruptcy estate because the claim concerned assets/liabilities to be liquidated in bankruptcy; the company’s organs no longer had standing.
Extracted reasoning
A pending claim can still be pursued by the bankrupt company only if it is not part of the estate. Here, the lease-transfer request affected the estate and its passive/active composition, so arts. 204 and 740 al. 5 CO, together with the bankruptcy rules, placed procedural control with the estate.