Roundup: Hibernia Wins Shareholder Nod for Texas Deal

Shareholders of Paris, Tex.-based Executive Bancshares have approved its acquisition by Hibernia Corp., Executive said.

Executive Bancshares, with $136 million of assets, operates two subsidiaries in northeast Texas: First National Bank of Paris, with two branches, and a one-branch unit of Collin County National Bank, in McKinney.

The acquisition is scheduled to close Aug. 31. Executive Bancshares' banks are slated to convert signage and systems to Hibernia by yearend.

Hibernia, whose assets total $9.67 billion, is also buying ArgentBank in southeast Louisiana, Unicorp Bancshares Texas, and Northwest Bancshares of Louisiana.

Those and the Executive Bancshares deal would bring Hibernia's assets to $10.8 billion and its branch total to 228.

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