On Thursday, Chinese company Wingtech said its control over Netherlands-based Nexperia should be restored, a day after the Dutch government suspended its seizure of the chipmaker, which has been at the center of a global supply chain crisis.
Despite the suspension, which China’s Ministry of Commerce welcomed on Wednesday, Beijing and now Wingtech have called for last month’s Dutch court ruling that stripped Wingtech of its control over Nexperia to be overturned as the next step in resolving the dispute.
Wingtech claimed that the Dutch government had avoided commenting on the court ruling.
“Wingtech Technology will never accept any attempt to ‘legalize’ illegal results, nor will it accept a ‘new normal’ of Nexperia fairness and governance created through illegal procedures,” it said in a lengthy statement.
The statement appears to preview a legal battle brewing in a Dutch court over control of Nexperia, a major maker of computer chips for the automotive and consumer electronics industries.
In recent weeks, Beijing has eased export controls imposed in early October on Nexperia chips packaged in China, providing temporary relief to automakers and their suppliers around the world.
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Nexperia was preparing at the beginning of 2025 to modify its corporate structure
However, it has warned that issues such as the court ruling must be resolved before supply chains return to normal.
Following the Dutch government’s intervention on September 30, Nexperia’s European directors successfully petitioned the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce to remove then-CEO Zhang Xuezheng, citing mismanagement. Wingtech has denied the allegations.
According to court documents, Nexperia was preparing in early 2025 to modify its corporate structure to avoid being included on the US “entity list,” which classifies companies as a security threat. Wingtech, for its part, has been on this list since December 2024.
Preliminary decisions by the Dutch court on October 1 and 7 transferred Wingtech’s shares to the control of a Dutch lawyer.
On Thursday, Wingtech accused the Dutch government of being the instigator and driving force behind these legal proceedings, and asked it to withdraw its participation and support.
The court told Reuters on Thursday that the court must decide “within a reasonable time” whether to order a full investigation into the alleged mismanagement. A date has not yet been set.
With information from Reuters
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