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Capital Bank Financial, a Miami company formed two years ago to buy distressed banks in the Southeast, has struck a deal to acquire Southern Community Financial (SCMF) in Winston-Salem, N.C., for $48.4 million.
March 27
Capital Bank Financial in Coral Gables, Fla., has upped the price it is paying for Southern Community Financial (SCMF) in Winston-Salem, N.C., by more than $3 million and will now pay all cash instead of a mix of cash and stock.
The $6.5 billion-asset Capital Bank announced in March that it would pay $2.88 per share for Southern Community and under the amended agreement it will now pay $3.11 per share, the $1.5 billion-asset Southern Community said in filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday. The total deal price now works out to $52 million, compared to $48.4 million.
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Southern Community's shares were up more than 13% on news of the amended agreement, to $3.03 midday Tuesday.
The deal, expected to close in the third quarter, would create an $8.1 billion-asset company with roughly 165 branches from southern Virginia to the Florida Keys. Capital is currently privately held but has filed a registration with the SEC to raise $300 million in a public offering.
The deal for Southern Community would be its seventh since the company was created in July 2010 for the purpose of acquiring distressed or underperforming banks.