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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000930413-22-000788"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GFF"
cik: "0000050725"
company_name: "GRIFFON CORP"
filed_at: "2022-04-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T05:53:50.758164+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Griffon sells Telephonics defense business to TTM Technologies for $330M cash

## Summary
- Sale price of $330M in cash; expected close in Q2 2022 subject to regulatory approvals.
- Griffon CEO says transaction strengthens balance sheet and allows focus on core businesses.
- Lazard and Dechert LLP advised Griffon; J.P. Morgan and O'Melveny & Myers advised TTM.
- Telephonics is a provider of defense electronics for U.S. and allied military.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000930413-22-000788
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GFF
- cik: 0000050725
- company_name: GRIFFON CORP
- filed_at: 2022-04-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50725/000093041322000788/0000930413-22-000788-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50725/000093041322000788/c103579_8k-ixbrl.htm

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