Dutch Enterprise Chamber Orders Wingtech and Nexperia China Not to Interfere With Nexperia's Business, Backed by Heavy Penalties
Nexperia said on November 12 that the Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal had on November 11 imposed additional immediate measures, backed by significant penalties, on its Chinese parent Wingtech, Nexperia China, suspended former chief executive Zhang Xuezheng and members of Wingtech's leadership. The chamber found that actions by Wingtech and Nexperia China had undermined its earlier rulings. Reuters reported that Wingtech could not immediately be reached for comment.
The orders require those parties to refrain from interfering with Nexperia's normal business activities, including partnerships, capacity expansion, intellectual property licensing, financing and the ordinary management or disposal of assets; to respect the powers of the independent court-appointed officials, Guido Dierick and Arnold Croiset van Uchelen, including their exploration of a possible long-term solution and of market interest; to withdraw claims in China insofar as they seek to undermine the Dutch rulings; and to refrain from enforcing Dongguan court injunctions of November 2 that would block the sale, transfer or encumbrance of Nexperia intellectual property or assets.
Earlier, a November 2 judgment of The Hague district court, corrected on November 5, granted an anti-anti-suit injunction covering the whole EU: Nexperia China may not rely on or enforce within the EU a March 31 order of the Jiangsu High People's Court, obtained at its request, that barred the Dutch Nexperia entity from asserting intellectual property rights worldwide. Breach carries a penalty of 1 million euros per day, capped at 100 million euros. In the same judgment, the Dutch entity's request for a trademark injunction was dismissed for lack of urgency, Nexperia China's counterclaims were also dismissed, and Nexperia China was ordered to pay 20,891.97 euros in costs. Recent claims that 'Nexperia China won a key round' refer only to that single trademark request dismissed on urgency grounds, not to the direction of the judgment as a whole.
The control fight began with the Dutch government's intervention at Nexperia in September 2025. GSM reported on November 3 that Nexperia had sued Wingtech and Zhang in the Netherlands, estimating damages at $2 billion.
(Source: Reuters)
Source: Reuters
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