{"id":2544,"date":"2017-09-29T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T09:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a3space.org\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2017-09-29T15:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:14:04","slug":"northrop-grumman-corp-to-acquire-orbital-atk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/?p=2544","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman Corp to acquire Orbital ATK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Northrop Grumman Corporation, a leading global security company, and\u00a0Orbital ATK, Inc., a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Northrop Grumman will acquire Orbital ATK for approximately\u00a0$7.8 billion\u00a0in cash, plus the assumption of\u00a0$1.4 billion\u00a0in net debt. Orbital ATK shareholders will receive all-cash consideration of\u00a0$134.50\u00a0per share. The agreement has been approved unanimously by the Boards of Directors of both companies. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2018 and is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory and Orbital ATK shareholder approval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can find out more\u00a0about this acquisitoin via this <a href=\"http:\/\/investor.northropgrumman.com\/phoenix.zhtml?c=112386&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=2301136\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop Grumman Corporation, a leading global security company, and\u00a0Orbital ATK, Inc., a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Northrop Grumman will acquire Orbital ATK for approximately\u00a0$7.8 billion\u00a0in cash, plus the assumption of\u00a0$1.4 billion\u00a0in net debt. Orbital ATK shareholders will receive all-cash consideration of\u00a0$134.50\u00a0per &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/?p=2544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Northrop Grumman Corp to acquire Orbital ATK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.a3space.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}