Utah’s Ultradent Agrees to Be Acquired for $900 Million by Mitsui Chemicals, with a Global Dental Products HQ to be Established in South Jordan, Utah

Mitsui Chemicals said it completed its acquisition of U.S. oral care company Ultradent Products on Aug. 14, 2026, earlier than the expected September timeline, after competition and foreign investment approvals were obtained. It plans to move its oral care global HQ function from Japan to a U.S. holding company and will review the deal’s impact on consolidated financial results.

NYT reports “buy now, pay later” lenders are expanding into essential bills. Flex and Zip offer loans for broadband, electricity, insurance, rent-related costs, and other payments, while Affirm has begun tenant rent extensions. Separately, Paramount asks a federal judge to require 12 states to cover delay costs tied to its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, seeking a $1.88B bond; a merger halt and quarterly $650M fee are central.

TTM Technologies agreed to buy Epiq Design Solutions for about $1.1B in cash, according to TTM. Epiq makes AI-enabled software-defined radios and related RF and space hardware. JPMorgan, Bank of America and Barclays committed financing. TTM estimates 2.3x net leverage at closing and 1.5x to 1.7x within 12 to 18 months.

Einride said it will buy 500 Tesla Semis, adding them in phases over the next 24 months starting September, and offer them to Amazon and other customers. Einride will manage the trucks via its Saga AI fleet software. The company expects the deal to triple its fleet and convert up to $800 million in potential long-term annual recurring revenue, using third-party financing.

According to Reuters, Alphabet’s Google won a Spirit Airlines bankruptcy auction to buy Spirit’s internal business data for $10 million, outbidding offers including a $7.5 million bid from Mercor. The dataset includes about 100 million emails and 500 million Teams chats. Google says it will receive de-identified data after PII scrubbing, pending a U.S. bankruptcy judge’s approval.

Morningstar DBRS said American Family Mutual Insurance will acquire Bowhead Specialty Holdings under a definitive agreement, and the deal should not change Bowhead’s credit ratings or trends. DBRS cited American Family’s improving 2025 statutory net income of $3.2B and expects broader resources and distribution. Transaction values Bowhead at about $1.2B, expected to close before end-2026.