Grandpoint to Buy Gilmore Bank in L.A.

Serial acquirer Grandpoint Capital has agreed to buy Gilmore Bank. Both are in Los Angeles.

Gilmore would be merged into the $943 million-asset Grandpoint Bank. Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, were not disclosed.

The addition of the $177 million-asset Gilmore's two branches would give Grandpoint ten Los Angeles locations.

"Gilmore Bank has a long and proud legacy in Los Angeles," Don Griffith, the chairman and chief executive of Grandpoint Bank, said in the news release. "We are honored that the [Gilmore] family, led by Chairman Hank Hilty, has selected Grandpoint as their partner in this merger."

Grandpoint has bought eight community banks since it was founded in 2010. It terminated a deal with NCAL Bancorp (NCAL) in Los Angeles in January.

Grandpoint Capital has assets of $2.2 billion and three subsidiaries: Grandpoint, of which Bank of Tucson in Arizona is a subsidiary; Biltmore Bank of Arizona in Phoenix; and Regents Bank in La Jolla, Calif.

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