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Opus Bank in Irvine, Calif., has expanded its recently created health care unit with the hiring of Randall Boba as first vice president and senior portfolio manager.
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ServisFirst Bancshares in Birmingham, Ala., has raised about $10.4 million through a private placement.
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Bibb Lamar opted to join ServisFirst rather than stay at Trustmark, which acquired BancTrust in February. His team will help ServisFirst expand in Mobile, Ala.
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ServisFirst Bancshares in Birmingham, Ala., has launched a health care banking division.
The new unit will provide banking services to health care providers in the Southeast, including hospitals, large physician practices and nursing home facilities, according to the company's Wednesday press release.
The health care banking unit will be led by Bill Berrell, who most recently served as vice president and team leader for Fifth Third Bancorp's (FITB) health care and public funds banking group.
"I'm very excited about the opportunity to start a health care initiative and build a health care portfolio with the bank," Berrell said in an interview with American Banker on Wednesday.
Berrell's leadership and experience in health care banking "reinforces ServisFirst Bank's commitment to the Tennessee region, specifically by growing both the health care banking and the middle market segments across the Southeast," Bradford Vieira, commercial banking manager for ServisFirst Bank Tennessee, said in the release.
A growing number of banks, including Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), KeyCorp (KEY) and Opus Bank, have
Berrell has also served as senior vice president of health care banking at Regions Financial (RF). Regions
Regions was unable to prove the charges, according to Berrell, who said in an interview that he did not have a noncompete agreement with the company. The case was dismissed, according to documents filed at the U.S. District Court in Nashville.
The $3.4 billion-asset ServisFirst also announced Wednesday that it has added veteran banker William Dacko as senior vice president of correspondent banking for its Florida region. Dacko previously served as senior vice president of business development with Independent Bankers Bank.
