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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

NEWS OF NOTE: Lunar Resources Plans $85 Million Utah Factory, HealthEquity and the Utah Jazz Enter Sponsorship Deal, a $44 Million Refinancing, and Five Other Newsworthy Items Comprise this Week's Writeup

NEWS OF NOTE: Lunar Resources Plans $85 Million Utah Factory, HealthEquity and the Utah Jazz Enter Sponsorship Deal, a $44 Million Refinancing, and Five Other Newsworthy Items Comprise this Week's Writeup

This edition of NEWS OF NOTE tracks recent Utah-related business, capital, real estate, public-finance, defense-tech, sports-business, industrial, land, and wealth-management announcements tied to over 25 organizations, including Lunar Resources, HealthEquity, the Utah Jazz, Ken Garff, ClearShift, Bartlett, Savage, Raymond James, Palladyne AI, the Utah DWR,

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

With the 2026 Legislative Session Opening Today, What is the State of Utah's Economy?

With the 2026 Legislative Session Opening Today, What is the State of Utah's Economy?

With a $30.8 recommended Fiscal 2027 budget from Utah Governor Spencer Cox staring them in the face, Utah's part-time legislators open the 2026 Legislative Session today with projections that they will introduce nearly 1,200 bills over the next six weeks, a close to 33% increase

Utah’s Agricultural Capital at Risk

Utah’s Agricultural Capital at Risk

A $2.3 Billion Industry Confronts Concentration, Succession, and Land Loss {AUTHOR'S NOTE: Utah agriculture is often spoken of in cultural or political terms, terms like heritage, lifestyle, rural identity. A recent Report published by the Kem C. Gardner POLICY INSTITUTE reframes the conversation more clearly and, frankly,

Bridging the AI Chasm Between Hype and Promise

Bridging the AI Chasm Between Hype and Promise

It seems that each day media and social media headlines are trumpeting the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI). And clearly for good reason as generative AI models are crafting content on a daily basis and more and more agentic systems are automating complex workflows on a daily basis. In

NEWS BRIEF: Utah-based Boostly Snags $22 Million in "Significant" Growth Funding Led by Private Equity Firm, PeakSpan Capital

NEWS BRIEF: Utah-based Boostly Snags $22 Million in "Significant" Growth Funding Led by Private Equity Firm, PeakSpan Capital

Just six months after landing a $5.6 million Seed Round of funding, Lehi, Utah-based Boostly has jumped into the big leagues by accepting what it describes as $22.0 million in "significant ... growth capital" as a Series A round of funding. According to the Boostly news