Ningbo Lawrence Automotive Interiors and NBHX sell minority stake in HELBAKO

GÖRG has compre­hen­si­vely advi­sed Ningbo Lawrence Auto­mo­tive Inte­ri­ors Co., Ltd. on the sale of the mino­rity share­hol­ding in HELBAKO GmbH held by its subsi­diary NBHX Auto­mo­tive System GmbH. The buyer of the shares is WITTE Auto­mo­tive GmbH in Velbert.

Ningbo Lawrence Auto­mo­tive Inte­ri­ors Co., Ltd. is a China-based company that specia­li­zes in the deve­lo­p­ment and manu­fac­ture of inte­rior compon­ents for the auto­mo­tive indus­try. Among other things, the auto­mo­tive supplier produ­ces trim elements, func­tional compon­ents and surface solu­ti­ons for various vehicle segments. Ningbo Lawrence Auto­mo­tive Inte­ri­ors Co., Ltd. is a subsi­diary of the NBHX Group.

The medium-sized auto­mo­tive supplier HELBAKO, based in Heili­gen­haus (North Rhine-West­­pha­­lia), deve­lops and produ­ces elec­tro­nic assem­blies for control­ling nume­rous car compon­ents. In addi­tion to its head­quar­ters in Germany, the company has another site in Romania. 

With a team led by part­ner Florian Wolff, GÖRG advi­sed Ningbo Lawrence Auto­mo­tive Inte­ri­ors Co., Ltd. on all legal aspects of the tran­sac­tion, inclu­ding the struc­tu­ring of the tran­sac­tion, the draf­ting and nego­tia­tion of the tran­sac­tion docu­ments and the imple­men­ta­tion of the sales process.

With its China Desk, GÖRG has many years of expe­ri­ence in advi­sing on invest­ments and cross-border tran­sac­tions invol­ving China. A team of German-Chinese lawy­ers with inter­cul­tu­ral exper­tise regu­larly advi­ses Chinese and Euro­pean compa­nies on invest­ments and legal issues in Germany/Europe as well as in and from China and East Asia. 

Advi­sors Ningbo Lawrence Auto­mo­tive Inte­ri­ors Co., Ltd. and NBHX Auto­mo­tive System GmbH : GÖRG Part­ner­schaft von Rechts­an­wäl­ten mbB

Florian Wolff, photo © GOERG (Lead, Part­ner, Corporate/M&A, Frank­furt am Main)
Dr. Chris­tian Bürger (Part­ner, FDI/Merger Control, Cologne)
Dr. Jia Ding, LL.M. (Coun­sel, Corporate/M&A, Frank­furt am Main)
Phil­ipp Sche­rer (Senior Asso­ciate, Liti­ga­tion and Arbi­tra­tion, Hamburg)
Leonie Hofmann (Asso­ciate, Corporate/M&A, Frank­furt am Main)