---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000715072-25-000123"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RNST"
cik: "0000715072"
company_name: "RENASANT CORP"
filed_at: "2025-04-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T21:42:47.355317+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Renasant completes merger with The First Bancshares; assumes $133.8M debt; CEO set for May 1

## Summary
- Completed stock-for-stock merger with The First Bancshares; First shareholders receive 1 RNST share per share.
- Assumed $133.8M in subordinated debt (trust preferred and notes) from The First.
- Appointed four former First directors (Cole, Levy, Moore, Parker) to Renasant board; board expands to 17.
- Executive Chairman McGraw resigns as officer May 1; Chapman becomes CEO; McGraw remains Chairman.
- Full operational conversion of The First's systems expected by early August 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000715072-25-000123
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RNST
- cik: 0000715072
- company_name: RENASANT CORP
- filed_at: 2025-04-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 2.03, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000123/0000715072-25-000123-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000123/rnst-20250401.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000715072-25-000123
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000715072-25-000123.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000715072-25-000123.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kevin D. Chapman was appointed as Director at RENASANT CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Kevin D. Chapman, Renasant’s President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Bank Board, to fill this new seat on the Board
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000123/0000715072-25-000123-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kevin D. Chapman changed role as Chief Executive Officer at RENASANT CORP.
  - Action: assuming the role
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Kevin D. Chapman assuming the role of the Company’s and the Bank’s Chief Executive Officer on the Transition Date (as previously disclosed)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000123/0000715072-25-000123-index.htm
- Executive change
  Renee Moore was appointed as Director at RENASANT CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed each of M. Ray (Hoppy) Cole, Jr., Jonathan A. Levy, Renee Moore, and Ted E. Parker to fill the new seats on the Board, effective as of the Effective Time
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000123/0000715072-25-000123-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ted E. Parker was appointed as Director at RENASANT CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed each of M. Ray (Hoppy) Cole, Jr., Jonathan A. Levy, Renee Moore, and Ted E. Parker to fill the new seats on the Board, effective as of the Effective Time
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000123/0000715072-25-000123-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jonathan A. Levy was appointed as Director at RENASANT CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed each of M. Ray (Hoppy) Cole, Jr., Jonathan A. Levy, Renee Moore, and Ted E. Parker to fill the new seats on the Board, effective as of the Effective Time
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000123/0000715072-25-000123-index.htm
- Executive change
  M. Ray (Hoppy) Cole, Jr. was appointed as Director at RENASANT CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed each of M. Ray (Hoppy) Cole, Jr., Jonathan A. Levy, Renee Moore, and Ted E. Parker to fill the new seats on the Board, effective as of the Effective Time
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000123/0000715072-25-000123-index.htm
- Executive change
  E. Robinson McGraw departed as Executive Chairman at RENASANT CORP.
  - Action: resign
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: E. Robinson McGraw, the Company’s Executive Chairman and the Chairman of the Board and of the Bank Board, agreed with the Company that he would resign as an officer and employee of the Company and the Bank, effective May 1, 2025 (the “Transition Date”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715072/000071507225000123/0000715072-25-000123-index.htm

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