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Colony Bankcorp and SouthCrest Financial Group to Combine in Transformational Merger
April 22, 2021 GMT
FITZGERALD, Ga & ATLANTA (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 22, 2021
Colony Bankcorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBAN) (“Colony” or “the Company”), the holding company for Colony Bank, and SouthCrest Financial Group, Inc. (PK: SCSG) (“SouthCrest”), the holding company for SouthCrest Bank, N.A., today jointly announced the signing of an Agreement and Plan of Merger under which Colony has agreed to acquire 100% of the common stock of SouthCrest in a combined stock-and-cash transaction valued at approximately $84.0 million. Upon completion of the transaction, Colony is expected to have approximately $2.4 billion in assets, $1.4 billion in loans, $2.0 billion in deposits, and $165.8 million in tangible common equity. The transaction is expected to be meaningfully accretive to Colony’s fully diluted ear