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Issuer:     Amerant Bancorp Inc. (AMTB)
CIK:        0001734342
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-03-14T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-22-074115
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Amerant Bancorp announces retirement of two board members, appointment of four new directors, and leadership changes
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- Frederick C. Copeland Jr. and J. Guillermo Villar to retire from the board after the June 8, 2022 annual meeting.
- Board temporarily expanded from 9 to 13 members; four new directors appointed effective April 1, 2022: Orlando Ashford, Samantha Holroyd, John Quelch, Oscar Suarez.
- Gerald P. Plush appointed Chairman of the Board and Pamella J. Dana appointed Lead Independent Director, effective after the annual meeting.
- Bylaws amended to provide for a Lead Independent Director role when Chairman and CEO positions are held by same person.
- Press release issued March 14, 2022 detailing board changes and new appointments.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1734342/000119312522074115/0001193125-22-074115-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1734342/000119312522074115/d305045d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-074115

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