---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-231144"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HWC"
cik: "0000750577"
company_name: "HANCOCK WHITNEY CORP"
filed_at: "2026-05-19T21:27:39+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T21:29:51.500374+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hancock Whitney to acquire OFB Bancshares for $29.273 per share in cash

## Summary
- OFB Bancshares shareholders representing ~23% of shares committed to vote in favor.
- Transaction subject to regulatory approvals from Federal Reserve, FDIC, and state regulators.
- Termination fee of $15 million payable by OFB under certain circumstances.
- One Florida Bank will merge into Hancock Whitney Bank post-closing.
- Deal expands Hancock Whitney's presence in Florida.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-231144
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HWC
- cik: 0000750577
- company_name: HANCOCK WHITNEY CORP
- filed_at: 2026-05-19T21:27:39+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/750577/000119312526231144/0001193125-26-231144-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/750577/000119312526231144/d104312d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-231144
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-231144.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-231144.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  HANCOCK WHITNEY CORP entered into Agreement and Plan of Merger with OFB Bancshares, Inc. valued at $29.273 per share in cash (effective 2026-05-15).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: OFB Bancshares, Inc.
  - Value: $29.273 per share in cash
  - Effective: 2026-05-15
  source text: On May 15, 2026, Hancock Whitney Corporation, a Mississippi corporation (“Hancock Whitney”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with OFB Bancshares, Inc., a Florida corporation (“OFB Bancshares”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/750577/000119312526231144/0001193125-26-231144-index.htm

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