---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-23-005335"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMBH"
cik: "0000700565"
company_name: "FIRST MID BANCSHARES, INC."
filed_at: "2023-08-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T08:55:19.373644+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Mid Bancshares completes Blackhawk Bancorp acquisition for ~3.33M shares

## Summary
- Blackhawk had $1.3B assets, $1.2B deposits, $784M loans as of June 30, 2023.
- Combined pro forma total assets ~$8.0B; account conversion expected in December 2023.
- First Mid issued ~3.33M shares of common stock to Blackhawk shareholders; exchange ratio 1.15:1.
- First Mid assumed $1.03M (due 2032) and $4.124M (due 2035) junior subordinated debentures plus $15M sub notes.
- Todd J. James appointed to First Mid Board of Directors as Class I, effective August 15, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-23-005335
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMBH
- cik: 0000700565
- company_name: FIRST MID BANCSHARES, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-08-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 2.03, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700565/000117184323005335/0001171843-23-005335-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700565/000117184323005335/f8k_081623.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-23-005335.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  FIRST MID BANCSHARES, INC. incurred senior notes of $7,500,000 of subordinated notes due 2031 and $7,500,000 of subordinated notes due 2036 maturing 2031 and 2036.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $7,500,000 of subordinated notes due 2031 and $7,500,000 of subordinated notes due 2036
  - Maturity: 2031 and 2036
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: First Mid assumed Blackhawk’s rights, duties and obligations with respect to Blackhawk’s $7,500,000 of subordinated notes due 2031 and $7,500,000 of subordinated notes due 2036.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700565/000117184323005335/0001171843-23-005335-index.htm
- Debt Financings
  FIRST MID BANCSHARES, INC. incurred senior notes of $4,124,000 with Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee at Fixed/Floating Rate maturing 2035.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $4,124,000
  - Counterparty: Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee
  - Rate: Fixed/Floating Rate
  - Maturity: 2035
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: First Mid assumed Blackhawk’s rights, duties and obligations under the Indenture between Blackhawk and the Trustee, dated as of March 17, 2005, pursuant to which Blackhawk has outstanding $4,124,000 of Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2035.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700565/000117184323005335/0001171843-23-005335-index.htm
- Debt Financings
  FIRST MID BANCSHARES, INC. incurred senior notes of $1,031,000 with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee at Floating Rate maturing 2032.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $1,031,000
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee
  - Rate: Floating Rate
  - Maturity: 2032
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: First Mid assumed Blackhawk’s rights, duties and obligations under the Indenture between Blackhawk and the Trustee, dated as of December 19, 2002, pursuant to which Blackhawk has outstanding $1,031,000 of Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2032.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700565/000117184323005335/0001171843-23-005335-index.htm
- Executive change
  Todd J. James was appointed as Class I Director at FIRST MID BANCSHARES, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class I Director
  source text: On August 14, 2023, with the agreement of Blackhawk, First Mid’s board of directors adopted a resolution, effective as of the closing of the Merger appointing Todd J. James, age 59, as a Class I Director of First Mid and a member of the Risk Committee of the board of directors, with a term to expire at the 2026 annual meeting of First Mid’s stockholders, or when his successor is duly elected and qualified, unless he shall earlier resign or be removed.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700565/000117184323005335/0001171843-23-005335-index.htm
- M&A Transactions
  FIRST MID BANCSHARES, INC. completed an acquisition involving Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc. for 1.15 shares of common stock, par value $4.00 per share, of First Mid per share of Blackhawk common stock and cash in lieu of fractional shares; total considerat (closed 2023-08-15).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc.
  - Consideration: 1.15 shares of common stock, par value $4.00 per share, of First Mid per share of Blackhawk common stock and cash in lieu of fractional shares; total considerat
  - Closing: 2023-08-15
  source text: ( “First Mid”) and Eagle Sub LLC, a newly formed Wisconsin limited liability company and wholly-owned subsidiary of First Mid (“Merger Sub”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation (“Blackhawk”), pursuant to which, among other things, the First Mid agreed to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Blackhawk pursuant to a business combination whereby Blackhawk will merge with and into Merger Sub, whereupon the separate corporate existence of Blackhawk will cease and Merger Sub will continue as the surviving company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Mid (the “Merger”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/700565/000117184323005335/0001171843-23-005335-index.htm

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