Private equity firm Veritas Capital Fund Management has agreed to buy aircraft parts manufacturer Chromalloy Gas Turbine from Carlyle Group for more than $1.6bn, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.
Chromalloy will be Veritas Capital’s latest acquisition in the aerospace and defense sector. In 2015, Veritas acquired aircraft servicing firm StandardAero Aviation for about $2bn and sold it to Carlyle for more than $5bn in 2018. Veritas sold engineering firm Alion Science and Technology to Huntington Ingalls Industries for $1.65bn in cash in 2021.
New York-based Veritas has more than $40bn in assets under management spread across technology, engineering services, and aerospace and defense.
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