Center Bancorp Completes Rights Offering

Posted on: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:43:00 EDT


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October 8, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- Center Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNBC), parent company of Union Center National Bank, announced that the Corp. has completed its rights offering.

Stockholders exercised subscription rights to purchase 1,137,896 shares of the 1,571,428 shares offered at a subscription price of $7.00 per share, raising gross proceeds of approximately $8.0 million. The 433,532 shares not subscribed for pursuant to the exercise of the basic subscription privileges and over-subscription privileges were purchased by the standby purchaser for a purchase price of approximately $3.0 million.

The proceeds from the rights offering and standby purchase will be used to repay the U.S. Treasury in connection with the TARP Capital Purchase Program.

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