Company: SPR
Filing Date: 2025-01-17
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001104659-25-004487
Chunk: 1

Company: Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-17
Form: 425
Chunk 1
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240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company¨

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.¨

Item 8.01 Other Events.

As previously reported, on June 30, 2024,
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (“Spirit”), The Boeing Company (“Boeing”) and Sphere Acquisition Corp.,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing (the “Merger Sub”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”)
providing for the merger of Merger Sub with and into Spirit (the “Merger”) and for Spirit to be the surviving corporation
in the Merger, upon the completion of which Spirit would be a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing.

In connection with the Merger, Boeing filed a registration
statement on Form S4 on August 12, 2024 and an amendment thereto on November 27, 2024 (such registration statement,
as amended, the “Registration Statement”), which contained a proxy statement of Spirit for the solicitation of proxies from
holders of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Spirit (“Spirit Common Stock”) in connection with the
special meeting of holders of Spirit Common Stock relating to the Merger and a prospectus of Boeing with respect to the shares of common
stock, par value $5 per share, of Boeing to be issued in the Merger (the “Proxy Statement/Prospectus”). The Registration Statement
was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 20, 2024. On December 20,
2024, Spirit filed with the SEC the definitive Proxy Statement/Prospectus, which was first mailed to holders of Spirit Common Stock on
or about December 26, 2024.

On August 29, 2024, a purported stockholder
of Spirit filed a lawsuit against Spirit and the board of directors of Spirit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
New York (the “Federal Action”). The Federal Action, captioned Murphy v. Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. et al.,
Docket No. 1:24-cv-06539, alleges, among other things, that the Registration Statement fails to disclose certain allegedly material
information in violation of