On April 17, 2024, Massachusetts-based Hodess Cleanrooms, a leader in the cleanroom construction and advanced technology industry, announced that it had acquired Labworks International Inc. of Woodbridge, Ontario.

Labworks designs and builds precision-controlled environments for the safe storage of temperature and/or humidity sensitive items for the life sciences industry. It also designs and builds cleanrooms for healthcare, post-secondary institutions, pharmaceutical, government research facilities, and private industry.

Gowling WLG advised Labworks with respect to this transaction with a team that included David Howell, Aaron Goldstein and Ivan Boiarski (corporate/M&A), Shefali Rajaputra (employment) and Alex Ross (IP).