Banner Corporation Announces Additional Exercise of Underwriters' Over-Allotment Option in Connection With Common Stock Offering
July 02 2010 - 4:05PM
Banner Corporation (Nasdaq:BANR) (the "Company"), the parent
company of Banner Bank and Islanders Bank, today announced that the
underwriters of the Company's recent public offering of common
stock have exercised their over-allotment option for an additional
7,139,000 shares, at a price to the public of $2.00 per share.
Together with the 78,500,000 shares the Company issued on June 30,
2010 (including 3,500,000 shares issued pursuant to the
underwriters' initial exercise of their over-allotment option), the
Company has issued a total of 85,639,000 shares in the offering,
resulting in estimated net proceeds, after deducting underwriting
discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, of
approximately $162.0 million. The Company and the underwriters
have agreed that there will be no further exercise of the
over-allotment option. In total, the underwriters purchased
10,639,000 shares of the 11,250,000 shares available under the
over-allotment option.
D.A. Davidson & Co. served as sole book-running manager of
the offering, and Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P. and McAdams
Wright Ragen served as co-managers.
This announcement shall not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there
be any offer or sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in
which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to
registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such
jurisdiction. Offers will be made only by means of a
prospectus and a related prospectus supplement, copies of which may
be obtained from D.A. Davidson & Co., 8 Third Street North,
Great Falls, MT 59401 (800) 332-5915, Sandler O'Neill +
Partners, L.P., 919 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10022
(800) 635-6859, and McAdams Wright Ragen, 925 4th Avenue,
Suite 3900, Seattle, WA 98104 (888) 567-6297.
About the Company
Banner Corporation is a $4.6 billion bank holding company
operating two commercial banks in Washington, Oregon and
Idaho. Banner serves the Pacific Northwest region with a full
range of deposit services and business, commercial real estate,
construction, residential, agricultural and consumer
loans. Visit Banner Bank on the Web at
www.bannerbank.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements within
the meaning of the "Safe-Harbor" provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are
necessarily subject to risk and uncertainty and actual results
could differ materially due to various risk factors, including
those set forth from time to time in our filings with the SEC. You
should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and
we undertake no obligation to update any such statements.
CONTACT: D. Michael Jones, CEO
Mark J. Grescovich, President
Lloyd W. Baker, CFO
(509) 527-3636
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