Pacific Premier Bankcorp (PPBI)

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Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc. Announces Completion of Acquisition of First Associations Bank

Date : 03/18/2013 @ 6:00AM
Source : Business Wire
Stock : Pacific Premier Bancorp (MM) (PPBI)
Quote : $12.68 0.09 (0.71%) @ 4:59PM

Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPBI) (“Pacific Premier” or the “Company”) today announced that, on Friday March 15, 2013, it completed the acquisition of First Associations Bank (“FAB”), a Dallas, Texas-based state chartered bank exclusively focused on serving homeowners associations ("HOAs") and HOA management companies nationwide. The acquisition of FAB is expected to add approximately $375.7 million in assets and approximately $319.8 million in deposits.

Effective immediately, FAB will operate as a division of Pacific Premier Bank. John Carona, FAB’s largest shareholder and director, has been added as a director on the Boards of Directors of the Company and Pacific Premier Bank.

Under the terms of the definitive agreement, FAB shareholders, in exchange for their shares of FAB common stock, will be entitled to receive an aggregate of $37.2 million in cash and 1,279,217 shares of Pacific Premier common stock. The value of the total deal consideration was approximately $56.7 million, which includes $16.0 million of stock consideration (based on the closing stock price of Pacific Premier common stock on March 15, 2013), $37.2 million of cash consideration and $3.5 million of cash consideration to the holders of FAB stock options and warrants.

“We are very pleased to complete our acquisition of FAB and welcome its national roster of HOA-related clients to Pacific Premier,” said Steven R. Gardner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Premier Bancorp. “We have been actively preparing for the integration of FAB into our operations over the past several months, including solidifying relationships with its largest customers, identifying additional banking talent that can further build our HOA-related business, and repositioning our balance sheet to take advantage of the liquidity and low-cost deposit base provided by FAB. As a result of the upfront planning we have done, we believe we are well positioned to quickly realize the synergies projected from this transaction and also continue growing our share of the national market for HOA banking services in the coming years.”

On a pro forma combined basis with the FAB acquisition and the proposed acquisition of San Diego Trust Bank, Pacific Premier is expected to have total assets of $1.7 billion.
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