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Issuer:     FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP /OH/ (FFBC)
CIK:        0000708955
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000708955-25-000105
Event type: m_and_a
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 3.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/708955/000070895525000105/0000708955-25-000105-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/708955/000070895525000105/ffbc-20251101.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000708955-25-000105

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