Investing.com– Boeing Co (NYSE:) has agreed to reacquire Spirit Aerosystems Holdings Inc (NYSE:) for over $4 billion, ending months of hypothesis over the deal because the planemaker struggled with a brand new security disaster, Reuters reported on Sunday.
Boeing pays $37.25 for every share in Spirit in an all inventory deal, the Reuters report mentioned, valuing the plane elements maker at $4.7 billion.
The deal will see the break-up of Spirit, with a few of its belongings going to French planemaker Airbus Group SE (EPA:), over antitrust considerations.
Boeing will convey Spirit again beneath its wing after the planemaker spun off the corporate in 2005. The transfer additionally comes as Boeing grapples with a renewed security scandal after the mid-air opening of a door on a 737 MAX 9 jet uncovered a slew of security and high quality points.
The renewed disaster comes after two crashes of the 737 MAX jet killed over 350 individuals in 2018 and 2019, and ramped up regulatory scrutiny towards the corporate.
A separate Reuters report mentioned the U.S. Justice Division sought to criminally cost Boeing with fraud over the 2 crashes.
