Lady Cobham furious as Advent pays £42m dividend

Owners of Cobham get bumper payout from aerospace specialist, sparking renewed anger over £4bn takeover By Alex Lawson And Helen Cahill, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 17 July 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 17 July 2021 The US private equity owners of Cobham have received a bumper payout from the aerospace specialist, sparking … Read more

Cobham confirms it is eyeing up Ultra Electronics

Another British engineer could be about to fall into foreign private equity hands after Cobham confirms it is eyeing up Ultra Electronics By Francesca Washtell And Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 25 June 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 25 June 2021 Another prestigious British engineer could be about to fall into … Read more

New takeover rules came ‘too late’, says Lady Cobham 

New takeover rules came ‘too late’ to save my family’s aerospace firm, says Lady Cobham By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 November 2020 | Updated: 22:30 GMT, 11 November 2020 Lady Cobham has lamented the fact that tough new takeover rules came too late to save the prestigious aerospace company … Read more

Cobham under fire over break-up ploy

Lady Cobham has called on Ministers to intervene after the US owner of defence giant Cobham launched a major break-up of the £4billion British firm. City sources said private equity firm Advent had quietly sold off Cobham’s shareholding in a Royal Air Force refuelling company and appointed heavyweight bankers to sell its antenna manufacturing unit … Read more

Sell-off fear as US firm splits Cobham up into nine divisions

Sell-off fear as Cobham’s new American owner splits defence giant up into nine divisions Advent International bought Cobham for £4billion earlier this year  Cobham has been split in nine divisions; it was previously run as four divisions By Ben Harrington For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:32 BST, 20 June 2020 | Updated: 22:32 BST, … Read more

Advent International, which bought Cobham, eyes Clinigen

Advent International – the buyout firm that acquired Cobham for £4bn – eyes up £1.5bn bid for Clinigen By Ben Harrington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 13 June 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 13 June 2020 One of Britain’s most successful pharmaceutical entrepreneurs could be in line for a windfall after it emerged … Read more

Cobham is VITAL to defend Britain – we can’t let a foreign buyer break it up, says Lady Cobham

Lady Cobham has blasted the planned US takeover of the British defence company bearing her name – saying it puts the UK’s national security at risk and should be stopped by the Government. The widow of Sir Michael Cobham, who built up the firm over 25 years – said the proposed £4billion takeover by private … Read more

Cobham family says we MUST protect UK defence, or we will lose ‘irreplaceable’ assets

Prominent member of Cobham family says we MUST protect UK defence, or we will lose ‘irreplaceable’ assets By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:59 BST, 15 December 2019 | Updated: 23:59 BST, 15 December 2019 The UK appears to be the last major military power to prioritise the protection of domestically-owned and controlled … Read more

Cobham adapts oxygen tech for fighter jets to build NHS ventilators 

Defence giant Cobham adapts fighter jet oxygen system technology to build NHS ventilators By Francesca Washtell and Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 6 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 6 April 2020 Cobham has become the latest business to join the effort to make ventilators for the NHS. The British defence … Read more