Vol. 29 No. 3, March - March 2015
Index
- 2015 Utah legal elite.
- A systematic review: understanding the intellectual property audit.
- Bankruptcy bargaining: negotiating with businesses in financial distress.
- Funding roadblocks: address legal matters early to avoid hurdles later.
- Law firms.
- Peggy Hunt: a champion of education in Law.
- Play for a win-win: making a case for early principled mediation in business disputes.
- Richard Tingey: the diverse roles of in-house counsel.
- Rookie mistakes: five employment law pitfalls for startups.
- Sean Reyes: Utah's Lawyer-in-Chief.
- Seeking counsel: what to expect when hiring an attorney for the first time.
- Corrections.
- Grab a bite.
- Duke's jewelers: a business built on family values.
- UB: connections.
- Fiscal fitness.
- Alt blogger conference draws wide audience.
- Salt Lake City--Hyatt Hotels Corporation opened Hyatt House Salt Lake City/Downtown.
- Salt Lake City--MaritzCX closed a transaction to combine the businesses of Maritz Research Inc. and Allegiance Software, Inc., creating a new independent company, MaritzCX.
- Salt Lake City--Newmark Grubb Acres announced the sale of 34.81 acres of industrial land located in Salt Lake City's industrial district at 3800 W. California Ave.
- Salt Lake City--The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) OF UTAH was honored for Advocacy Excellence during BOMA International's 2015 Winter Business Meeting.
- Salt Lake County--Salt Lake County joined an economic development network created by the Global Cities Initiative (GCI).
- West Valley City--Firearms silencer manufacturer Silencerco released the shortest possible hearing-safe versions of its Octane and Osprey pistol silencers.
- Riverton--the owners and management of Owell Precast have chosen Olympus Precast.
- Salt Lake City--Attorneys from Ballard Spahr advised and represented Scatec Solar North America, Inc., and its Norwegian parent, Scatec Solar ASA, in closing on $157 million in a recent financing for construction of a utility-scale solar power plant in Utah.
- Salt Lake City--C.R. England implemented a $.04 pay increase for all training miles driven by company trainers working in the organization's national and regional divisions.
- Salt Lake City--Devpoint Labs, a Utah web development bootcamp.
- Salt Lake City--Kickstart Seed Fund announced the close of its $39 million Fund III at StartSLC Festival, the startup and technology festival.
- Salt Lake City--Multiling Corp., which deals with intellectual property (IP) translations and related support services for foreign patent filings.
- Salt Lake City--Plano, Texas-based Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning acquired Salt Lake City-based Mountainwest Home Services.
- Salt Lake County--OpenTable, a provider of online restaurant reservations and part of The Priceline Group, honored the 2015 Diners' Choice Award winners for the Top 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in America.
- Sandy--peer-to-peer lending company Prosper Marketplace acquired Sandy-based American Healthcare Lending.
- Kimberly Henrie: bringing business to the beehive state.
- AlphaGraphics.
- C.R. England.
- CREW Network.
- Ivy V. Estabrooke, Ph.D., executive director of the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative (USTAR).
- LifeVantage Corporation.
- Myriad Genetics, Inc.
- Remember My Service (RMS) Military Productions.
- The Alliance of Community Health Plans.
- The Governor's Office of Economic Development.
- The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium.
- United Way.
- VCBO Architecture.
- Romney urges investment in both personal, financial lives.
- Salt Lake City- XMission secured legal counsel to begin pursuit of spammers through the court system.
- Salt Lake City--Black Diamond Equipment and the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) announced that Black Diamond will expand its manufacturing operations in Utah.
- Salt Lake City--ClearOne introduced a new version of its digital wireless microphone products, now with support for Dante technology.
- Salt Lake City--Following a year-long development process led by Utah Clean Energy.
- Salt Lake City--Hungry Media, LLC, a student-owned and operated digital content studio, was the winner of Westminster College's Opportunity Quest Business Plan Competition.
- Salt Lake City--Lineagen, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company focused on disorders of childhood development.
- Salt Lake City--Orabrush, Inc. spun off its online video marketing business as an independent company, Molio, Inc.
- Salt Lake City--The Sorenson Legacy Foundation granted a total of $1.5 million in order to help combat the Ebola epidemic to three separate international health organizations.
- Taylorsville--Mountainstar Healthcare and St. Mark's Hospital are building Utah's newest satellite emergency department in Taylorsville to address that community's increasing need for local healthcare services.
- Noah Cahoon: taking flight as a young entrepreneur.
- Lehi--Attask renamed the company under the new corporate brand Workfront.
- Lehi--B.O.S.S. Retirement Solutions, a retirement income maximization company, announced new tools to help retirees and pre-retirees maximize Social Security income during retirement.
- Orem--Woodbury Corporation broke ground on a $500 million upgrade to University Place.
- Provo--Dark Energy, a Provo startup in portable power storage solutions.
- Provo--Nelson Family Mortuary broke ground on its new facility in North Provo at 4780 N. University Ave.
- Provo--Peak Capital Partners, a Utah-based apartment investment and management company, acquired Northgate Apartments at the Gateway.
- Saratoga Springs--Cafe Rio Mexican Grill opened its 27th Utah restaurant.
- Spanish Fork--Spanish Fork Community Network (SFCN), a municipal broadband services provider in Utah, selected San Antonio-based Alianza's Cloud Voice Platform as its next-gen voice solution.
- Bret Wedding.
- Clearfield--Vista Outdoor Inc., which previously operated as the Sporting Group of Alliant Techsystems Inc.
- Layton--Retro Fitness opened an 11,000-square-foot facility at its first Utah location at 495 W. 1425 North at the Layton Hills Mall.
- Lehi--Myheritage, a source for discovering, preserving and sharing family history.
- Logan--Frontier Scientific, Inc. acquired the assets of the entomology division of Bio-Serv, Inc.
- Orem--FirstWest Benefit Solutions announced the launch of its newest division, FirstWest Human Resource Solutions.
- Provo--an alternate reality game called DUST was created to encourage teens, especially girls and minorities, to get excited about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
- Provo--Ancestry, the online family history resource, plans to build a new company headquarters at The Corporate Center at Traverse Mountain in Lehi.
- Provo--In a new partnership with Utah's Stem Action Center, Central Utah Clinic is donating 100 STEM kits to distribute to middle schools in Utah.
- Reid Robison.
- Utah State University begins production of biosynthetics for commercialization.
- Centerville--Office Evolution opened its new Centerville location, featuring two day offices.
- Farmington--Oakwood Homes, a Colorado-based private home builder that recently made its entry into the Utah housing market largely through acquisition of Henry Walker Homes, is bringing townhome and single-family living to Davis County in a new Farmington community called Avenues at the Station.
- Farmington--Pluralsight acquired Code School, an online learn-to-code destination, for $36 million.
- Logan--Great Value Colleges released a new online article that picks 30 top online colleges in the United States for 2015, and Utah State University's virtual program ranked 13th overall.
- Marshall Moore.
- Ogden--Comcast Business announced that Ogden City is using its ethernet services to provide faster internet access and high-performance connectivity between 18 municipal locations, including its city hall.
- Park City--Stein Eriksen Lodge embarked on an $8 million renovation project.
- Park City--Summit Sotheby's International Realty was selected to exclusively represent residential real estate sales by Victory Ranch, a new private, four-season residential destination just minutes from Deer Valley and Park City.
- Park City--Sunrise Holdings, LLC, in partnership with Lantern Asset Management and Resort Finance America, acquired Hyatt Escala Lodge.
- ULI Group discusses future of transportation along Wasatch Front.
- Green Gate Village Historic Inn: a prominent piece of St. George's past.
- HintonBurdick CPAs & Advisors.
- Price--Peczuh Printing, Inc. acquired Lindon-based Printing Resource, Inc.
- Southern Utah University.
- Southern Utah University: Mark Miller.
- St. George--Town & Country Bank announced net income of $1.4 million or $1.13 per share for the year ending on Dec. 31, 2014.
- Judd's Store: a step back in time.
- Around Utah facts.
- Keeping health care local: University of Utah Health Care teams up with community hospitals in five states to improve access to care.
- Year in review: a look back at employment law news of 2014.
- Have it all: the entrepreneur's elusive search for balance.
- Utah oil prices 101: the best source for information about the Utah economy.
- Unleashing the brand: a well-established tech firm starts at zero with new branding.
- More data, more jobs: inside the U's big data certification program.
- Smooth operator: when is the right time to hire a COO?