Freshfields Advises Centre Lane Partners on its Sale of Vexos to East West Manufacturing

Global law firm Freshfields advised Centre Lane Partners, LLC (CLP) on the sale of its portfolio company Vexos, Inc. (Vexos) to East West Manufacturing, an integrated manufacturing solutions company (IMS) and portfolio company of BDT & MSD Partners. Vexos is an award-winning electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and custom material solutions (CMS) company, with operations across North America and Asia. Vexos supports OEMs in the industrial, medical, computing, communications, aerospace, defense and space, and automotive markets. Learn more about this transaction here. 

The Freshfields M&A team was led by Partners Paul Humphreys and Ryan Blicher and Senior Associate Philip Turpin and included international Associate Mads Rosleff Oebro and Associate Ruth Levy. Counsel Sean McClay and Associates Jebril Reeves and Josh Rudd advised on finance matters; Partner Claude Stansbury, Senior Associate Joshua Critchlow and Associate Dominik Luczak advised on tax matters; Partner Lori Goodman, Counsel Andrew Herman and Associates Juan Pastor and Naveed Rashid advised on employee compensation and benefits matters; Partner Mena Kaplan, Counsel Daniel Spencer and Associate Rhea Khakhria advised on IP matters; Partner Marin Boney, Senior Associate Chris Kraft and Associate Eleanor Liu advised on antitrust matters; Partner Jeremiah Nelson and Associate Kate Koudouna advised on real estate matters; Partner John Rousakis advised on environmental matters; Associate Jackson Myers advised on data privacy matters; Partner Stephanie Brown Cripps and Associate Keian Razipour advised on sanctions matters; Partner Eric Johnson advised on Vietnam matters; Partner Alan Wang and Associate Tracy Gu advised on PRC matters and Partner Danny Li and Senior Associate Vincent Ko advised on Hong Kong matters.