VIAVI Solutions ( VIAV ) penned a deal to acquire Spirent Communications ( SPNUF ) (OTC:SPMYY) for approximately £1.0 billion ($1.3 billion) in a cash offer. The acquisition price values Spirent based on the British pound sterling to U.S. dollar exchange rate on March 4, 2024. Spirent offers products, services and managed solutions that address technologies’ test, assurance and automation challenges, including 5G, software-defined...

March 5 (Reuters) - Haemonetics Corp ( HAE ): * HAEMONETICS ANNOUNCES DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE ATTUNE MEDICAL * HAEMONETICS WILL ACQUIRE ATTUNE MEDICAL FOR AN UPFRONT CASH PAYMENT OF $160 MILLION * : PLANS TO FINANCE THIS ACQUISITION THROUGH A COMBINATION OF CASH-ON-HAND AND A DRAW UNDER ITS REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY * EXPECTS TRANSACTION TO BE IMMEDIATELY ACCRETIVE TO...

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - The lawyers who successfully voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package as excessive admitted their request for a $6 billion fee is unprecedented, but by some measures, it might be cheap. The fee request, like Musk's pay package targeted in the case, defies easy comparisons. A judge in Delaware in the coming weeks will be...

PARIS, March 5 (Reuters) - France's Thales on Tuesday unveiled higher than expected sales, cash and profits for 2023, pushing its shares sharply higher despite becoming the latest aerospace player to feel pressure in the oversupplied satellite business. Operating profit rose by an underlying 11% to a record 2.13 billion euros ($2.31 billion) - topping 2 billion euros for the...