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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-095122"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "CIVB"
cik: "0000944745"
company_name: "CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-07-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T07:05:38.577549+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "low"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Civista Bancshares to acquire The Farmers Savings Bank via opportunistic follow-on offering

## Summary
- Filing corrects prior 8-K that inadvertently attached Q1 2025 presentation instead of the correct M&A-related deck.
- Management will host investor call on July 10, 2025 to discuss the follow-on offering and acquisition of The Farmers Savings Bank.
- Civista is a $4.1B holding company with 42 branches; acquisition expands footprint in Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky markets.
- Deal value, offering size, and expected close date not disclosed in this filing; details in attached investor presentation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-095122
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: CIVB
- cik: 0000944745
- company_name: CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-07-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: low
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000095017025095122/0000950170-25-095122-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944745/000095017025095122/civb-20250710.htm

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