First Financial Bancorp (Nasdaq: FFBC - News) announced today that it has commenced a public offering of $100 million of common shares in an underwritten public offering through Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P. and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, as representatives of the underwriters. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC and Raymond James & Associates, Inc. are also acting as underwriters for the offering.
The common shares will be offered pursuant to a preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus filed as part of an existing shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Form S-3. The company intends to grant the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 15% of the common shares sold to cover over-allotments, if any.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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