Tag Archives: divestiture

Executives from Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT), Parsons (NYSE: PSN) and Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) said they believe divestitures of smaller business units resulting from major mergers and acquisitions in the past two years could drive the next wave of M&As in the government contracting market, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.

Harris (NYSE: HRS) and L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) set June 29, Saturday, as the closing date for their all-stock merger deal after they secured the regulatory clearances needed to complete the transaction.

A McAleese & Associates report says the merged company of L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) and Harris (NYSE: HRS) would invest 4 percent of $18B combined revenue in independent research-and-development efforts.

Arlington Capital Partners and NWI Holdings have respectively finalized their acquisitions of the fabrication and machining businesses from Triumph Group. Triumph Group said Monday it will refocus investment efforts on intellectual property systems and proprietary technology products designed for aftermarket and original equipment manufacturing clients. The deals include divestitures of …

Several top government contractors and industry experts attended Baird’s 2018 Government Services and Defense Conference. “2018 has been a transformational year of M&A at scale in the government services and defense market,” Jean Stack, managing director for global investment banking at Baird, told GovConWire. Stack added that she expects 2019 to …

Valiant Integrated Services has wrapped up its approximately $135 million cash acquisition of Cubic’s (NYSE: CUB) global defense services business. Bradley Feldmann, Cubic chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement published Friday the completion of the divestiture is a significant step for the company as it works to achieve and bring …

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) has agreed to sell its public safety and security system integration business to Securitas Electronic Security for approximately $69 million in cash. Eric DeMarco, Kratos president and CEO, said in a statement published Wednesday the divestiture concludes the execution of the company’s strategy to transition …

Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has agreed to sell its maritime energy communications business to global satellite services company SpeedCast International for $425 million in the military radio maker’s first divestiture since its August agreement with activist hedge fund Jana Partners. This move is part of Harris’ larger effort to examine non-core businesses and …

Three GovCon Index-listed government contractors and one also included in the S&P 500 composite index posted quarterly financial results before markets opened Tuesday. Co-listed Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) posted fiscal year 2017 first quarter results above Wall Street’s consensus forecasts and in conjunction announced a $425 million sale of its CapRock communications business as …

Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has put some parts of its critical networks division up for sale in a transaction that could be worth more than $1 billion, Reuters reported Tuesday. Mike Stone and Michael Flaherty write the potential divestiture includes Harris’ information technology services operation and comes a month after the Melbourne, Florida-based communications technology …