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So Humboldt, Texas-based Third Coast Bank Shares, the parent company of Third Coast Bank, agreed to acquire Elk City, Oklahoma-based Great Plains Bank Shares, Inc., the parent company of Great Plains National Bank, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $240 million.

Under the deal terms, Third Coast expects to issue 5.57 million shares of common stock to Great Plains shareholders.

Third Coast shareholders would own approximately 78% of the combined company, while Great Plains shareholders would hold the remaining 22%, according to the October 7th press release.

Per the merger agreement, Thunder Merger Sub A wholly owned Third Coast subsidiary will merge with Great Plains, with Great Plains shareholders receiving Third Coast common shares in exchange for their holdings.

Great Plains will then merge into Third Coast.

while Great Plains National Bank will combine with Third Coast Bank.

So we'll keep an eye on that and see what happens there.

Then we get Virginia-based Town Bank to acquire North Carolina lender Blue Harbor.

So Portsmouth, Virginia-based Town Bank agreed to acquire Mooresville, North Carolina-based Blue Harbor Bank in a transaction valued at approximately $154 million.

Under the agreement, Blue Harbor shareholders will receive $12.70 in cash and basically 1.0534 shares of TownBank, common stock for each Blue Harbor share, according to an October 6 press release, based on TownBank's 10-day volume-weighted average price of $36.15 as of October 2nd.

The consideration represents an implied value of $50.78 per share per Blue Harbor share.

About 75% of the transaction will be paid in town bank stock.

Then we get into Byline's deal for Illinois Estate will not preclude it from other M&A.

Byline's Bancorp most recent acquisition announcement is not expected to take the company out of the M&A game.

Byline said October 6th that it agreed to acquire Chicago-based Illinois Estate Bancorp in an 86.7 million transaction.

That would mark Byline's sixth bank deal since 2016.

Analysts anticipate Byline staying open to other deal options because this transaction poses little integration risk given Byline's experience with M&A and the digestible size of Illinois estate, which has total assets of roughly $617 million or about 6% of the buyer's total assets.

So yeah, we'll keep an eye on that one.

Nebraska's Pinnacle Bancorp to buy Texas Community Bank.

So acquiring South Star Bank expands Pinnacle's Texas presence currently concentrated in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Austin and the central part of the state.

So, Omaha, Nebraska-based Pinnacle Bancorp will acquire Southern Bank Shares parent company of Moulton, Texas-based South Star Bank, the bank said Thursday.

The Texas lender has about $1.4 billion in assets and 16 branches and a loan production office across Austin and other cities in the central part of the state, according to a news release.

Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

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