Capital-Challenged Doral Selling Health Care Unit to Triumph Bancorp

Under pressure from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to increase its capital levels, Doral Financial (DRL) is selling its health care lending division to Triumph Bancorp in Dallas.

The transaction, announced Thursday, is expected to close this quarter and the lending platform will be rebranded as Triumph Healthcare Finance. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

News of the sale comes just weeks after the FDIC told the San Juan, Puerto Rico, company that it could not count $289 million of receivables from the territory as Tier 1 capital under terms of a 2012 consent order. The receivables accounted for nearly 43% of Doral's Tier 1 capital as of Dec. 31.

Doral said at the time that it was exploring a range of capital-raising options, including selling off performing and nonperforming assets.

Doral requested a $230 million refund of overpaid taxes from Puerto Rico, but was denied. Therefore, the $8.5 billion-asset Doral is looking at possible legal action against Puerto Rico "to protect its legal rights," according to a regulatory filing the company disclosed on Thursday.

Doral Healthcare Financial was launched in January 2011 as an asset-based lender targeting the medical industry.

Houlihan Lokey served as Doral's financial advisor during this transaction.

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