MB Financial and First Oak Brook Receive Stockholder Approvals for Merger
August 01 2006 - 5:03PM
Business Wire
MB Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq:MBFI) and First Oak Brook Bancshares,
Inc. (Nasdaq:FOBB) announced that they received the stockholder
approvals needed for their merger at the special meetings of
stockholders of the companies held today. Subject to receipt of all
required regulatory approvals, the companies expect to complete the
merger by the end of August 2006. MB Financial, Inc. is the
Chicago-based $5.9 billion holding company for MB Financial Bank,
N.A., and Union Bank N.A. (Oklahoma). First Oak Brook Bancshares,
Inc. is the $2.4 billion holding company for Oak Brook Bank, Oak
Brook, Illinois. Safe Harbor Statement: Statements in this press
release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. By their nature, such statements are subject to
numerous factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those anticipated in the statements. In the case of
the statement regarding the anticipated timing of the completion of
the MB Financial/First Oak Brook merger, such factors include the
possibility that the receipt of all required regulatory approvals
might be delayed or not occur at all and the possibility that the
satisfaction or waiver of one or more of the other conditions to
completion of the merger under the merger agreement might be
delayed or not occur at all. Additional Information: MB Financial
has filed a registration statement on Form S-4 with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), which was declared effective
by the SEC, in connection with the MB Financial/First Oak Brook
merger. The registration statement includes a joint proxy statement
of MB Financial and First Oak Brook that also constitutes a
prospectus of MB Financial (the "joint proxy
statement/prospectus"), which was sent to the stockholders of MB
Financial and First Oak Brook. Stockholders are advised to read the
joint proxy statement/prospectus, which was filed by MB Financial
with the SEC on June 27, 2006, because it contains important
information about MB Financial, First Oak Brook and the merger. The
joint proxy statement/prospectus, and other documents relating to
the merger filed by MB Financial and First Oak Brook, can be
obtained free of charge from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
These documents also can be obtained free of charge by accessing MB
Financial's website at www.mbfinancial.com under the tab "Investor
Relations" and then under "SEC Filings" or by accessing First Oak
Brook's website at www.firstoakbrook.com. Alternatively, these
documents can be obtained free of charge from MB Financial upon
written request to MB Financial, Inc., Secretary, 6111 North River
Road, Rosemont, Illinois 60018 or by calling (847) 653-1992, or
from First Oak Brook, upon written request to First Oak Brook
Bancshares, Inc., Rosemarie Bouman, 1400 Sixteenth Street, Oak
Brook, Illinois 60523, or by calling (630) 571-1050.
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