In Brief: Ill. Bank's IPO Adds 1,400 Shareholders

A Lincolnshire, Ill., community bank holding company has added about 1,400 shareholders through an initial public offering.

Success Bancshares, a $350 million-asset company, made 674,476 newly issued shares available to its 87 original investors, customers, and community members, while the remaining 600,000 shares were offered to the public.

The stock, underwritten by Everen Securities in Chicago, was originally priced at $12.50 per share but closed Wednesday at $15.38.

Saul D. Binder, president and chief executive officer of Success, said the semi-private offering was successful but posed some political problems for the bank. More Success customers and community members wanted to buy shares in the private offering than were available, he said.

"It isn't all peaches and cream," he said. "We may consider a second offering to take care of everyone we didn't get to the first time around."

Mr. Binder said the company would use some cash from its stock offering to pay down holding company debt. The company may also consider buying another bank, he said.

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