Court sounds out investors for stake in Nexperia

The Dutch Enterprise Chamber (Ondernemingskamer) has imposed extra measures on Wingtech, the Chinese owner of chipmaker Nexperia. The court acted at Nexperia's request. The officials the court appointed announced the step on Thursday.

The court-appointed director and the share administrator of Nexperia now want to find out how much interest investors have in the company. They are looking at interest in a majority stake as well as a minority stake.

Nexperia is based in Nijmegen. The company is at the centre of a long-running dispute with its current Chinese owner, Wingtech. The inquiry into outside investors is a separate step from the extra measures the court has now placed on Wingtech.

A crisis began at Nexperia in autumn 2025, when the Dutch government barred the company from making major changes. The government feared that Wingtech would move parts of the business from Europe to China.

The Enterprise Chamber is the Amsterdam court that handles disputes over how companies are run. The director and the share administrator it appointed are the officials who run the company's affairs and hold its shares while the dispute continues.