Bio

Lex Eley is a partner in Crowell & Moring's Corporate Group and has decades of international transactional, private equity, venture capital, and general corporate experience. Lex focuses his practice on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and business transactions. He has represented clients in global and regional transactions in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Lex’s transactional practice spans a variety of industries including government contractors, cybersecurity, information technology, consumer products, manufacturing and automotive. Lex's work for his clients is heavily weighted toward mergers and acquisitions, but has covered virtually all legal disciplines touching on his client's businesses. Lex served as outside general counsel to a pan-European manufacturing company for a number of years while he was resident in Europe. In addition to his transactional practice, Lex serves as general outside counsel to high growth companies, providing guidance regarding the myriad issues these companies face in obtaining capital and bringing products and services to market, often in the cybersecurity and government contracting sector. Lex has developed and implemented various exit strategies enabling clients to monetize their investments through mergers, divestitures, and public offerings, and has implemented numerous corporate restructurings, reorganizations, and recapitalizations.