El fabricante de coches el\u00e9ctricos e.GO Mobile, con sede en Aquisgr\u00e1n, ha presentado una solicitud de procedimiento de blindaje ante el Juzgado Local de Aquisgr\u00e1n, una forma especial de insolvencia en r\u00e9gimen de autoadministraci\u00f3n. Al parecer, el inversor chino que ten\u00eda previsto entrar en la startup alemana no pudo participar como estaba previsto debido a los efectos de la pandemia del Covid-19.<\/p>\n
El tribunal ya ha accedido a la solicitud y ha nombrado administrador provisional a Biner B\u00e4hr, de White & Case. Adem\u00e1s, Paul Fink, del bufete de abogados FRH, especializado en derecho de reestructuraci\u00f3n e insolvencia, se incorporar\u00e1 al consejo de administraci\u00f3n como agente general. El procedimiento paraguas de protecci\u00f3n es una forma especial de insolvencia en r\u00e9gimen de autoadministraci\u00f3n: el objetivo del procedimiento es presentar un plan de insolvencia. Durante el procedimiento, la empresa conserva el poder de disposici\u00f3n como deudora y puede seguir actuando por su cuenta. Esto significa que s\u00f3lo existen motivos de insolvencia, pero la empresa a\u00fan no es insolvente.<\/p>\n
\"Nuestros inversores, predominantemente estrat\u00e9gicos, nos han prestado un gran apoyo hasta este momento y han hecho posible que seamos la \u00fanica startup de Europa que ha llevado un coche el\u00e9ctrico a la producci\u00f3n en serie. Ahora, comprensiblemente, tienen otras prioridades\", afirm\u00f3 el fundador y consejero delegado de la empresa, G\u00fcnther Schuh, en una declaraci\u00f3n p\u00fablica.<\/p>\n
Schuh no especific\u00f3 cu\u00e1les eran estas \"otras prioridades\". En enero de este a\u00f1o, la empresa anunci\u00f3 que estaban formar una empresa conjunta con un fabricante chino<\/a> para gestionar la producci\u00f3n a gran escala en China. Lo m\u00e1s probable es que este socio chino no haya podido seguir adelante como estaba previsto debido a la continua resonancia de la pandemia del Covid-19. En un entrevista publicada a finales de enero<\/a>, Schuh confirm\u00f3 que la empresa ya hab\u00eda reunido 310 millones de euros de inversores. En aquel momento, Schuh dijo que se necesitaban 105 millones de euros para poder valerse \"por s\u00ed misma\". \"Hemos conseguido m\u00e1s de 50 millones de esta cantidad en forma de capital de nuestro socio chino\", declar\u00f3 el consejero delegado de e.GO. \"Se han firmado los contratos, la transferencia del dinero est\u00e1 en marcha\".<\/p>\n Sea como fuere, las declaraciones anteriores se hicieron antes de la crisis de Corona. Ahora parece que, a pesar de los contratos firmados, el acuerdo no ha llegado a buen puerto. Esto significar\u00eda que un importante proyecto de futuro se ha marchitado, mientras que las dificultades en Alemania han seguido arreciando.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El fabricante de coches el\u00e9ctricos e.GO Mobile, con sede en Aquisgr\u00e1n, ha presentado ante el Tribunal Local de Aquisgr\u00e1n una solicitud de procedimiento de blindaje protector, una forma especial de insolvencia en<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":85766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9930],"tags":[3701,8149,4633,9961,16900,20193,7405],"class_list":["post-130945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","tag-bev","tag-e-go-life","tag-e-go-mobile","tag-germany","tag-gunther-schuh","tag-insolvency","tag-startup"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" Last year, for example, only 526 vehicles were produced instead of the announced 3,300. According to preliminary figures, a loss of around 50 million euros was incurred for 2019 \u2013 with just 20 million euros in sales. Already in October e.GO Mobile had to struggle with significant financial troubles. “Financing via the market” was not possible at that time. The company only escaped insolvency because shareholders brought in 100 million euros.<\/p>\n This saving injection of money has apparently now been omitted. Nevertheless, according to the public statement, Schuh continues to make big plans and wants to “grow strongly in 2021 and 2022” \u2013 the company also sticks to its forecast of a positive operating cash flow from the second half of 2020. “That’s why we want to keep all our employees on board and hope that our customers and suppliers will remain loyal to us during this self-management phase,” said Schuh.<\/p>\n The CEO described the insolvency in self-management as a “new challenge from outside” and pointed to numerous problems in the past, such as when Opel parts were no longer allowed to be used for e.GO vehicles after Opel was taken over by PSA, or when suppliers brought in new restrictive governance codes according to Dieselgate and unilaterally terminated existing supply contracts. Or just recently when the German government increased the environmental bonus, meaning that e.GO Mobile had to raise the price of the Life by 2,000 euros, which robbed them of their market advantage and significantly impeded their chances in the following financing rounds. The effects of the Corona crises was then just the last drop in the bucket.<\/p>\n At the same time, the four-seater e-vehicle e.GO Life has been in series production since spring 2019 and delivering to customers since autumn 2019. “That is why we want to keep all our employees on board and hope that our customers and suppliers will remain loyal to us during this self-managed phase,” says Prof. G\u00fcnther Schuh. “We have already achieved 80% of what is actually impossible in Germany. And we are creative and tough: we are German engineers! We will also survive this crisis.” Schuh reiterated that the company is making “essential solutions for sustainable mobility of tomorrow.”<\/p>\n