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Duane Morris Partner Fred Dreher Guides F.N.B. Corp. in $100M Public Offering
Philadelphia, June 15 - Duane Morris partner Frederick W. Dreher led the legal representation for F.N.B. Corporation in its public offering of 21 million shares of common stock, a move expected to raise approximately $109.3 million for the Hermitage, Pennsylvania-based company. Also involved in the effort was Duane Morris partner John W. Kauffman.
Dreher practices in the areas of insurance, securities and banking law, and mergers and acquisitions. A member of the Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Dreher is a 1965 graduate of Harvard Law School and a graduate of Princeton University.
Kauffman focuses his practice on corporate and partnership law and securities regulation, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, Sarbanes-Oxley guidance, public and private equity financings, and bank and insurance company regulation. Kauffman is a 1986 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley-Boalt Hall School of Law, a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, where he earned a master's degree, and a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University.
About F.N.B. Corporation
F.N.B. Corporation, headquartered in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, is a diversified financial services company with total assets of $8.5 billion as of March 31, 2009. F.N.B. Corporation is a leading provider of commercial and retail banking, leasing, wealth management, insurance, merchant banking and consumer finance services in Pennsylvania and Ohio, where it owns and operates First National Bank of Pennsylvania, First National Trust Company, First National Investment Services Company, LLC, F.N.B. Investment Advisors, Inc., First National Insurance Agency, LLC, F.N.B. Capital Corporation, LLC, Regency Finance Company and Bank Capital Services. It also operates consumer finance offices in Tennessee and loan production offices in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Florida. For more information on this public offering, please refer to F.N.B.'s website.
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