M&A Deal Summary

United Bank Acquires Bank of Georgetown

On November 9, 2015, United Bank acquired financial services company Bank of Georgetown for 269M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is United Bank’s 17th transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is United Bank’s 5th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is United Bank’s 18th transaction in the United States.
  • This is United Bank’s 2nd transaction in District of Columbia.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-11-09
Target Bank of Georgetown
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) United Bank
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 269M USD
Advisor(s) Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc. (Financial)
Covington & Burling (Legal)

Target

Bank of Georgetown

Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Bank of Georgetown is a privately held community bank.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

United Bank

Charleston, West Virginia, United States

Category Company
Founded 1982
Sector Financial Services
Employees2,716
Revenue 1.0B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

United Bank is a bank holding company with full service banking offices in West Virginia, Virginia, Washington, DC, Maryland, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. United Bank was founded in 1982 and is based in Charleston, West Virginia.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 18 of 22
Sector (Financial Services) 17 of 21
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 18 of 19
State (District of Columbia) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 18 of 22
Year (2015) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 5 of 21
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-01-31 Virginia Commerce Bancorp

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Virginia Commerce Bancorp has $2.8 billion in assets and 28 banking offices, one residential mortgage origination office and one wealth management office. VCBI locations are in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. With the acquisition of VCBI, United’s assets will grow to approximately $11.2 billion.

Buy $467M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-08-18 Cardinal Financial

McLean, Virginia, United States

Cardinal Financial Corp. is a financial holding company serves the washington metropolitan region through its wholly-owned subsidiary Cardinal Bank with over 30 conveniently located banking offices. Cardinal, with $4.2 billion in assets, provides banking services through its subsidiary bank, Cardinal Bank, which has a network of 30 branches throughout Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C

Buy $912M