Legacy Business: Financial Services Investing

1st United Bancorp, Inc. was acquired by Valley National Bancorp (NYSE: VLY) in 2014.

American Business Bank, headquartered in downtown Los Angeles, offers a wide range of financial services to the business marketplace. Clients include wholesalers, manufacturers, service businesses, professionals and non-profits. American Business Bank has six Loan Production Offices in strategic locations including: North Orange County in Anaheim, Orange County in Irvine, South Bay in Torrance, San Fernando Valley in Woodland Hills, Riverside County in Corona and Inland Empire in Ontario.

American Chartered Bancorp, Inc. was acquired by MB Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBFI) in 2016.

AMERISAFE, Inc. is a specialty provider of workers’ compensation insurance focused on small to mid-sized employers engaged in hazardous industries, principally construction, trucking, logging and lumber, manufacturing, and agriculture. AMERISAFE actively markets workers’ compensation insurance in 27 states

Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. was acquired by Old National Bancorp (NASDAQ: ONB) in 2016.

Avenue Financial Holdings, Inc. was acquired by Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNFP) in 2016.

Banc of California, Inc. is a bank holding company of Banc of California, N.A. The Bank operates full-service branches located throughout Southern California providing customized and innovative banking and lending solutions to businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals throughout California.

The Bancorp, Inc. is dedicated to serving the unique needs of non-bank financial service companies, ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to those on the Fortune 500. The company’s only subsidiary, The Bancorp Bank, has been repeatedly recognized in the payments industry as the Top Issuer of Prepaid Cards (US), a top merchant sponsor bank and a top ACH originator. Specialized lending distinctions include National Preferred SBA Lender, a leading provider of securities-backed lines of credit, and one of the few bank-owned commercial vehicle leasing groups in the nation.

BancTec USA, Inc. was acquired by SourceHOV in 2014.

Bank Leumi Le-Israel is the holding company for Bank Leumi USA, a relationship- driven boutique bank with global ties that has been operating in the United States for more than 60 years with its headquarters in New York City and with offices in Chicago, IL, Los Angeles and Palo Alto, CA and Aventura, FL. Bank Leumi USA offers a complete range of commercial and private banking solutions for businesses and individuals.

Bankwell is a commercial bank that serves the banking needs of residents and businesses throughout Fairfield and New Haven Counties, Connecticut.

BCSB Bancorp, Inc. was acquired by F.N.B. Corporation (NYSE: FNB) in 2014.

Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. is a national financial services organization that owns Wealth Management, Trust, and Commercial and Private Banking affiliates with offices in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, and Florida. The Company’s affiliates serve the high net worth marketplace with high quality products and services of unique appeal to private clients. The Company also provides strategic oversight and access to resources, both financial and intellectual, to support affiliate management, marketing, compliance and legal activities.

Bridge Capital Holdings was acquired by Western Alliance Bancorporation (NYSE: WAL) in 2015.

Carolina Bank Holdings, Inc. was acquired by First Bancorp (NASDAQ: FBNC) in 2017.

CNB Financial Corporation is a financial holding company that conducts business primarily through CNB Bank, CNB Financial Corporation’s principal subsidiary. CNB Bank is a full-service bank engaging in a full range of banking activities and services, including trust and wealth management services, for individual, business, governmental, and institutional customers. CNB Bank operations include a private banking division and full-service offices in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. CNB Bank’s divisions include ERIEBANK, based in Erie, Pennsylvania with offices in northwest Pennsylvania and northeast Ohio; FCBank, based in Worthington, Ohio with offices in central Ohio; and BankOnBuffalo, based in Buffalo, New York with offices in northwest New York. CNB Bank is headquartered in Clearfield, Pennsylvania with offices in central and north central Pennsylvania.

Codorus Valley Bancorp, Inc. is the largest independent financial services holding company headquartered in York, Pennsylvania. Codorus Valley primarily operates through its financial services subsidiary, PeoplesBank, A Codorus Valley Company. PeoplesBank offers a full range of consumer, business, wealth management, and mortgage services at financial centers located in communities throughout South Central Pennsylvania and Central Maryland.

Community & Southern Holdings, Inc. was acquired by Bank OZK (NASDAQ: OZK) in 2016.

Community Bancshares, Inc. was acquired by Superior Bancorp in 2006.

Community Capital Bancshares is a bank holding company of its wholly-owned bank subsidiary, AB&T National Bank. AB&T National Bank’s main office is located in Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, with additional full-service branches in Albany and Leesburg, Georgia. The bank provides a full range of banking services to individual and corporate customers in its primary market areas of Dougherty and Lee County, Georgia.

Community National Bank was acquired by Bridge Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: BDGE) in 2015.

Enterprise Financial Services Corp is a bank holding company headquartered in Clayton, Missouri. Enterprise Bank & Trust, a Missouri state-chartered trust company with banking powers and a wholly owned subsidiary of Enterprise, operates branch offices in Arizona, Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico. Enterprise Bank & Trust offers a range of business and personal banking services and wealth management services. Enterprise Trust, a division of Enterprise Bank & Trust, provides financial planning, estate planning, investment management and trust services to businesses, individuals, institutions, retirement plans and non-profit organizations.

Equity Bancshares, Inc. is the holding company for Equity Bank, offering a full range of financial solutions, including commercial loans, consumer banking, mortgage loans, trust and wealth management services and treasury management services, while delivering the high-quality, relationship-based customer service of a community bank.

Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Jericho, New York, with one branch office in Garden City, New York and an administrative office in Boca Raton, Florida. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Esquire Bank, National Association, is a full-service commercial bank dedicated to serving the financial needs of the legal industry and small businesses nationally, as well as commercial and retail customers in the New York metropolitan area. The bank offers tailored products and solutions to the legal community and their clients as well as dynamic and flexible merchant services solutions to small business owners.

First Capital Corporation was acquired through a series of asset purchases by Ares Commercial Finance in 2015.

First Foundation, a financial institution founded in 1990, provides personal banking, business banking and private wealth management. The Company has offices in California, Nevada and Hawaii with headquarters in Irvine, California.

First Merchants Corporation is a financial holding company headquartered in Muncie, Indiana. The Corporation has one full-service bank charter, First Merchants Bank. The Bank also operates as First Merchants Private Wealth Advisors (as a division of First Merchants Bank).

First NBC Bank Holding Company was acquired by Hancock Whitney Corporation (NASDAQ: HWC) in 2017.

Florida Bank Group, Inc. was acquired by IBERIABANK Corporation (NASDAQ: IBKC) in 2015.

Heritage Oaks Bancorp was acquired by Pacific Premier Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: PPBI) in 2017.

Illini Corporation was acquired by United Community Bancorp, Inc. in 2016.

Katahdin Bankshares Corp., parent company of Katahdin Trust Company, founded in 1918, is a community bank offering financial services to individuals and businesses through full-service branches in Northern Maine and the greater Bangor and Portland Regions with a suite of digital banking solutions.

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. is the holding company for Metropolitan Commercial Bank. The Bank provides a broad range of business, commercial and personal banking products and services to small and middle-market businesses, public entities and affluent individuals in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1999, the Bank is headquartered in New York City and operates locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Great Neck, Long Island. The Bank is also an active issuer of debit cards for third-party debit card programs.

MSB Capital Corporation, parent company of United Midwest Savings Bank, which operates in Columbus, Ohio and previously operated in northern Florida.

NewBridge Bancorp was acquired by Yadkin Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: YDKN) in 2016.

Northwest Bank merged with Western Capital Bank in 2012.

Park Cities Financial Group, Inc. is the holding company of Dallas Capital Bank, a one branch bank that provides commercial banking and financial planning advisory services.

Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation is a New Jersey bank holding company. Founded in 1921, Peapack-Gladstone Bank is a commercial bank that provides innovative private banking services to businesses, non-profits and consumers, which help them to establish, maintain and expand their legacy. Through its private banking locations in Bedminster, Morristown, Princeton and Teaneck, its Private Wealth Management Division, and its branch network and online platforms, Peapack-Gladstone Bank offers an unparalleled commitment to client service.

Presidio Bank provides business banking services to small and mid-size businesses, including professional service firms, real estate developers and investors, and not-for-profit organizations, and to their owners who desire personalized, responsive service with access to local decision makers. Presidio Bank offers clients the resources of a large bank combined with the personalized services of a neighborhood bank. Presidio Bank is headquartered in San Francisco, California and currently operates five banking offices in San Francisco, Walnut Creek, San Rafael, San Mateo and Palo Alto.

Private Bancorp of America, Inc. is the holding company for CalPrivate Bank. CalPrivate Bank provides a Distinctly Different banking experience through unparalleled service and creative funding solutions to high net worth individuals, professionals, locally owned businesses and real estate entrepreneurs. Customers are serviced through offices in Coronado, San Diego, La Jolla, Newport Beach, South Bay LA and Beverly Hills as well as efficient electronic banking offerings. The Bank also offers various portfolio and government guaranteed lending programs, including SBA and cross-border Export-Import Bank programs.

The Bank currently operates retail/business banking offices in Riverside County and San Bernardino County (Inland Empire). Provident Bank Mortgage operates two wholesale loan production offices and nine retail loan production offices located throughout California.

QCR Holdings, Inc. is a relationship-driven, multi-bank holding company serving the Quad Cities, Cedar Rapids, Cedar Valley, Des Moines/Ankeny, Springfield and Rockford communities through its wholly owned subsidiary banks which provide full-service commercial and consumer banking and trust and wealth management services.

Radius Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company of Radius Bank, a one-branch financial institution headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Radius operates a branchless banking model, generating deposits via online and mobile platforms to provide traditional community bank activities combined with specialty finance lines of business to generate loan growth without the overhead of a branch network. In addition to these services, Radius offers sophisticated treasury management services to pension fund, union, municipal, and not-for-profit entities, while remaining a leader in technology-based banking.

Reliance Bancshares, Inc. was acquired by Simmons First National Corporation (NASDAQ: SFNC) in 2019.

SBM Financial, Inc. was acquired by Camden National Corporation (NASDAQ: CAC) in 2015.

Description: Shelf-charter bank holding company established in 2010 by the principals of the Related Companies. The corporation returned capital to its investors in 2011.

Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc., a Missouri corporation was organized in 1994 and is the parent company of Southern Bank, a 125-year-old savings institution with operations throughout Missouri and Arkansas. Substantially all of the Company’s consolidated revenues are derived from the operations of the Bank, and the Bank represents substantially all of the Company’s consolidated assets and liabilities.

Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance, Inc. was acquired by Tower Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWGP) in 2009.

Square 1 Financial, Inc. was acquired by PacWest Bancorp (NASDAQ: PACW) in 2015.

State Bancorp, Inc. was acquired by Valley National Bancorp (NYSE: VLY) in 2012.

State Bank Financial Corporation was acquired by Cadence Bancorporation (NYSE: CADE) in 2019.

Sterling Bancorp, whose principal subsidiary is Sterling National Bank, specializes in the delivery of services and solutions to business owners, their families and consumers within the communities it serves through teams of dedicated and experienced relationship managers. Sterling National Bank offers a complete line of commercial, business, and consumer banking products and services.

Stonegate Bank was acquired by Home BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOMB) in 2017.

Territorial Bancorp Inc., headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, is the stock holding company for Territorial Savings Bank. Territorial Savings Bank is a state-chartered savings bank which was originally chartered in 1921 by the Territory of Hawaii. Territorial Savings Bank conducts business through its branch offices in the state of Hawaii.

TGR Financial, Inc. is the parent company for First Florida Integrity Bank, a commercial bank serving markets in southwest Florida. First Florida Integrity Bank remains the largest community bank headquartered in Collier County, measured by deposit market share.

Tidelands Bancshares, Inc. was acquired by United Community Banks, Inc. (NASDAQ: UCBI) in 2016.

TriState Capital Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSC) is a bank holding company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., providing commercial banking, private banking and investment management services to middle-market companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals. Its TriState Capital Bank subsidiary serves middle-market commercial customers through regional representative offices in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Edison, N.J., and New York City, as well as high-net-worth individuals nationwide through its national referral network of financial intermediaries. Its Chartwell Investment Partners subsidiary serves institutional clients and TriState Capital’s financial intermediary network.

U.S. Century Bank is a locally-owned and managed community bank founded in Miami, Florida in 2002 to serve the financial needs of South Florida’s communities. With locations in Miami-Dade County, the Bank is recognized as one of the largest community banks headquartered in Miami and is one of the few remaining Hispanic banks in the nation, earning it the FDIC designation of a Minority Depository Institution.

United America Indemnity Group, Inc. provides property and casualty insurance through its subsidiaries. United America Indemnity Group, Inc. was formerly known as U.N. Holdings II, Inc. and changed its name to United America Indemnity Group, Inc. in 2005. The company is based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. United America Indemnity Group, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Global Indemnity Limited.

Unity Bancorp, Inc. is a financial service organization headquartered in Clinton, New Jersey. Unity Bank provides financial services to retail, corporate and small business customers through its retail service centers located in Bergen, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Warren Counties in New Jersey and Northampton County in Pennsylvania.

Washington Banking Company was acquired by Heritage Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: HFWA) in 2014.

WashingtonFirst Bankshares, Inc. was acquired by Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: SASR) in 2018.

Western New England Bancorp, Inc. is a Massachusetts-chartered stock holding company and the parent company of Westfield Bank, CSB Colts, Inc., Elm Street Securities Corporation, WFD Securities, Inc. and WB Real Estate Holdings, LLC. Western New England Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiaries are headquartered in Westfield, Massachusetts and operate 22 banking offices located in Agawam, Chicopee, East Longmeadow, Feeding Hills, Holyoke, Ludlow, South Hadley, Southwick, Springfield, Ware, West Springfield and Westfield, Massachusetts, and Granby and Enfield, Connecticut.