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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000708955-25-000105"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FFBC"
cik: "0000708955"
company_name: "FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP /OH/"
filed_at: "2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:59:23.933092+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Financial closes $325M acquisition of Westfield Bancorp; adds $20.6B in assets

## Summary
- Total consideration $325M: $260M cash plus 2,753,094 shares of FFBC common stock worth $65M.
- Post-acquisition assets now $20.6B; Westfield Bank branches to operate under current name until conversion in March 2026.
- Acquisition from Ohio Farmers Insurance Company expands First Financial's Midwest footprint into Northeast Ohio.
- First Financial also previously announced pending acquisition of BankFinancial in Chicago and commercial banking move into Grand Rapids.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000708955-25-000105
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FFBC
- cik: 0000708955
- company_name: FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP /OH/
- filed_at: 2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/708955/000070895525000105/0000708955-25-000105-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/708955/000070895525000105/ffbc-20251101.htm

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