Michael Cobham News Today

Cobham Aerospace Communications is being sold by its American private equity owner to Thales, the French defence group, for $1.1 billion in cash.Advent is

In the manner of a latter-day Boudica, she saw it as her sacred duty to defend the valuable aerospace and satellite skills for the sake of Britain. Lady Cobham was falsely accused by her critics in the financial community – anxious to buy and break-up Cobham whatever the costs to UK plc – of only being interested in aggrandising the family name. Nothing could be further from the truth. If this was another country, the deal would not have been allowed, Lady Cobham says of the £4billion take...