---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-21-146816"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NIC"
cik: "0001174850"
company_name: "NICOLET BANKSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2021-12-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T03:24:38.797537+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nicolet completes merger with County Bancorp for ~$220M; adds $1.5B assets

## Summary
- Consideration of $37.18 cash or 0.48 Nicolet shares per County share; total ~$220M.
- Added ~$1.5B in assets; pro forma total assets ~$8.0B, loans ~$4.5B, deposits ~$6.7B.
- Lynn D. Davis appointed to Nicolet and Nicolet National Bank boards.
- Three former Investors Community Bank branches rebranded as Nicolet National Bank.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-21-146816
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NIC
- cik: 0001174850
- company_name: NICOLET BANKSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2021-12-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1174850/000110465921146816/0001104659-21-146816-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1174850/000110465921146816/tm2134562d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-146816
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-146816.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-146816.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lynn D. Davis was appointed as Director at NICOLET BANKSHARES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective immediately upon the consummation of the Merger on December 3, 2021, and in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement, the Nicolet Board of Directors increased the size of the board by one member and appointed Lynn D. Davis, a former member of the County board of directors, to fill the vacancy created by this increase.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1174850/000110465921146816/0001104659-21-146816-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.