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Nearly $40 Million in Utah-focused Deals, Announcements Regarding 14 Utah Entities, Including 7 Executive Changes — Say Hello to NEWS OF NOTE No. 3

Nearly $40 Million in Utah-focused Deals, Announcements Regarding 14 Utah Entities, Including 7 Executive Changes — Say Hello to NEWS OF NOTE No. 3

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ✅ L3Harris Technologies (Salt Lake City) has landed a $12.2 million U.S. Navy contract modification for work in Utah, while Salt Lake City-based Milestone Capital Partners closed $11.5 million of corporate notes; ✅ Ogden, Utah-based TAB Bank provided an $8 million working-capital facility to

The U.S. Army has Begun Exclusive Negotiations to Finalize Plans for Two Firms to Process Critical Minerals at Tooele Army Depot in Tooele County, Utah

The U.S. Army has Begun Exclusive Negotiations to Finalize Plans for Two Firms to Process Critical Minerals at Tooele Army Depot in Tooele County, Utah

Executive Summary: Two firms (one from Boca Raton, Florida and one from Sydney, Australia) have been conditionally selected by the U.S. Army "to design, finance, build, and operate critical mineral processing facilities on underutilized land on Army installations ..." to process and refine boron, dysprosium (Dy), and terbium

NEWS BRIEF: A Major Shareholder Plans to Sell 8 Million Common Shares of Pattern Stock in a Pattern Secondary Public Offering

NEWS BRIEF: A Major Shareholder Plans to Sell 8 Million Common Shares of Pattern Stock in a Pattern Secondary Public Offering

The stock sale gives a major Pattern shareholder a path to liquidity, but Pattern itself is not raising money through the transaction. 16 June 2026 — LEHI, Utah — Pattern Group (NASDAQ:PTRN) yesterday filed an S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an 8 million-

Lehi-Based Entrata Files to Go Public, Revealing a Profitable $509 Million Utah Software Platform

Lehi-Based Entrata Files to Go Public, Revealing a Profitable $509 Million Utah Software Platform

The Silver Lake-controlled property-management technology company has applied to list on the NYSE under the ticker ENT, giving Utah another potential public-market anchor in vertical software, AI-enabled property operations, and rental-housing infrastructure. LEHI, Utah, 1 June 2026 — After five-plus months of nibbling at the

Lake Mountain School District’s $19.75 Million Eagle Mountain Land Deal is Likely the First Step Toward a $500 Million-ish K-16 Campus in Western Utah County

Lake Mountain School District’s $19.75 Million Eagle Mountain Land Deal is Likely the First Step Toward a $500 Million-ish K-16 Campus in Western Utah County

The planned 100-acre campus would bring together a new high school, Mountainland Technical College, and Utah Valley University, turning western Utah County’s population boom into a major education, workforce, real estate, and public-infrastructure play. EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah — 27 May 2026 — The nascent Lake Mountain School District has

More Than $120 Million in Recent Utah Funding Shows Capital Moving Toward AI-Native Operating Infrastructure

More Than $120 Million in Recent Utah Funding Shows Capital Moving Toward AI-Native Operating Infrastructure

Recent funding rounds for Enzo Health, Findd, Fortem Technologies, pmtbox, and Tava Health point to a broader Utah capital signal: investors are backing companies embedded in the operating systems of behavioral health, commerce, healthcare, labor, and national defense. LEHI, LINDON, OREM, PROVO, and SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Utah’s latest

Utah’s Deal Market Rebounded to a Record 435 Transactions in 2025, Even as the Disclosed Total Deal Value Dropped to $17.2 Billion on a YoY Basis

Utah’s Deal Market Rebounded to a Record 435 Transactions in 2025, Even as the Disclosed Total Deal Value Dropped to $17.2 Billion on a YoY Basis

The biggest money signal from the MWCN's annual Deal Flow Report (2025) is not a new dollar-value record, because that is not accurate. Rather, it is that Utah’s deal engine kept running in 2025 across a record number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), public