diff --git a/lib/util/edit.test.ts b/lib/util/edit.test.ts
index fb2abab..34fe9d2 100644
--- a/lib/util/edit.test.ts
+++ b/lib/util/edit.test.ts
@@ -289,6 +289,53 @@ function a2() {}`,
   });
 
   describe('class declaration', () => {
+    it('should not remove decorators when exports are deleted', () => {
+      const fileService = new MemoryFileService();
+
+      fileService.set('/app/main.ts', ``);
+      fileService.set(
+        '/app/a.ts',
+        `@myDecorator
+export class A {}`,
+      );
+      fileService.set(
+        '/app/b.ts',
+        `@myDecorator
+export default class B {}`,
+      );
+      fileService.set(
+        '/app/c.ts',
+        `@firstDecorator
+@secondDecorator(() => [WithArgument])
+export default class C {}`,
+      );
+
+      edit({
+        fileService,
+        recursive,
+        entrypoints: ['/app/main.ts'],
+      });
+
+      assert.equal(
+        fileService.get('/app/a.ts'),
+        `@myDecorator
+class A {}`,
+      );
+
+      assert.equal(
+        fileService.get('/app/b.ts'),
+        `@myDecorator
+class B {}`,
+      );
+
+      assert.equal(
+        fileService.get('/app/c.ts'),
+        `@firstDecorator
+@secondDecorator(() => [WithArgument])
+class C {}`,
+      );
+    });
+
     it('should not remove export for class if its used in some other file', () => {
       const fileService = new MemoryFileService();
 
diff --git a/lib/util/parseFile.ts b/lib/util/parseFile.ts
index 7d2cce5..8b6430d 100644
--- a/lib/util/parseFile.ts
+++ b/lib/util/parseFile.ts
@@ -83,27 +83,47 @@ const getChange = (
     };
   }
 
-  // we want to correctly remove 'default' when its a default export so we get the syntaxList node instead of the exportKeyword node
-  // note: the first syntaxList node should contain the export keyword
+  /**
+   * The syntax list contains the keywords that can be found before the actual declaration.
+   * We want to remove everything that is not a decorator.
+   */
   const syntaxListIndex = node
     .getChildren()
     .findIndex((n) => n.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.SyntaxList);
 
   const syntaxList = node.getChildren()[syntaxListIndex];
+
+  if (!syntaxList) {
+    throw new Error('syntaxList missing');
+  }
+
+  const firstKeywordToDeleteIndex = syntaxList
+    .getChildren()
+    .findIndex((n) => n.kind !== ts.SyntaxKind.Decorator);
+
+  const firstKeywordToDelete =
+    syntaxList.getChildren()[firstKeywordToDeleteIndex];
+
+  if (!firstKeywordToDelete) {
+    throw new Error(
+      'Unexpected syntax list when looking for keywords after decorators',
+    );
+  }
+
   const nextSibling = node.getChildren()[syntaxListIndex + 1];
 
-  if (!syntaxList || !nextSibling) {
-    throw new Error('Unexpected syntax');
+  if (!nextSibling) {
+    throw new Error('No sibling after syntax list');
   }
 
   return {
     code: node
       .getSourceFile()
       .getFullText()
-      .slice(syntaxList.getStart(), nextSibling.getStart()),
+      .slice(firstKeywordToDelete.getStart(), nextSibling.getStart()),
     span: {
-      start: syntaxList.getStart(),
-      length: nextSibling.getStart() - syntaxList.getStart(),
+      start: firstKeywordToDelete.getStart(),
+      length: nextSibling.getStart() - firstKeywordToDelete.getStart(),
     },
   };
 };