BAE Buys a $5.6 Billion Aerospace Business: The London Rush

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Defense giant BAE Systems unveiled a blockbuster acquisition this morning, setting it up to be the largest deal this year by a UK-based company. It will pay $5.6 billion in cash to buy Ball Corp.’s aerospace unit, which manufactures instruments and sensors for everything from space travel to weather forecasting. The deal, which BAE says will boost its margins and earnings in the first year, may also stir investors’ hopes of a uptick in M&A activity during what tends to be a summer lull.

Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet, manufactured by BAE Systems Plc, and other military aircraft during a visit by Romania's President Klaus Iohannis, Romania's Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca, and Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, to NATO forces at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Military Base in Constanta, Romania, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022.

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