Deals
CommScope in $7.4 Billion Arris Deal as Gear Spending Falls
- Cable, phone M&A combined with slumping 4G sales forced deal
- Carlyle gives $1 billion in financing, adds two board members
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CommScope Holding Co. agreed to buy Arris International Plc for about $7.4 billion including debt payments, creating a U.S. powerhouse in telecommunications networking equipment.
The cash purchase is set at $31.75 a share, compared with Arris’s closing price of $27.79 a share on Wednesday, Hickory, North Carolina-based CommScope said in a statement on Thursday. Additionally, Carlyle Group LP will make a $1 billion minority equity investment in CommScope to help finance the transaction. Carlyle will add two representatives to the board of the combined company.