DeHeng Assisted LÄPPLE Group in Global Business Optimization with Successful Divestment of Two Business Units

2025-10-27

Recently, LÄPPLE Group completed the divestment of its global rotary table business and automation business. This divestment marks a critical step for LÄPPLE Group, a global, independent supplier of stamping parts, body components, and standard parts, to focus on its core sectors, optimize its business portfolio, and enhance operational and capital efficiency. As the PRC legal counsel for this transaction, DeHeng leveraged its extensive experience and professional expertise in cross-border deals and provided comprehensive, integrated legal services, facilitating the successful completion of the business divestment for the client.

As a cross-border business divestment transaction, this project involved highly complex structural design and execution, requiring multi-jurisdictional coordination and strategy alignment. The transaction encompassed diverse types of assets, necessitating parallel progress within a tight timeline for sorting various assets and contracts, making employee transfer arrangements, and optimizing tax structures and transition mechanisms to ensure business continuity and stable succession of customer supply chains.

The DeHeng team was led by partner Lu Yaosong from DeHeng’s Shanghai Office, with primary support from lawyers Kang Jiaping, Bu Yun, Cheng Zheyuan, and Zang Yingqi from its cross-border M&A practice group. They closely collaborated with the international law firm ACT Legal to provide end-to-end services, including transaction structure design, drafting and revision of transaction documents, negotiation of key transaction terms, and support for closing and transition period implementation.