---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-21-050279"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EQBK"
cik: "0001227500"
company_name: "EQUITY BANCSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2021-10-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T22:30:16.288337+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Equity Bancshares completes merger with American State Bancshares, adds ~$5B assets

## Summary
- Completed merger with ASB on Oct 1, 2021; combined total assets ~$5.0B across 67 locations.
- Assumed $7.732M principal of Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest notes due 2035.
- Leon Borck, former ASB Chairman, appointed to Equity board and joins Risk Committee.
- Q3 2021 results to be announced Oct 19; conference call Oct 20 at 10 a.m. ET.
- Equity has now completed 18 bank combinations since foundation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-21-050279
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EQBK
- cik: 0001227500
- company_name: EQUITY BANCSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2021-10-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.03, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227500/000156459021050279/0001564590-21-050279-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227500/000156459021050279/eqbk-8k_20211002.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-21-050279
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-21-050279.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-21-050279.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Leon Borck was appointed as director at EQUITY BANCSHARES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  source text: In connection with the closing of the Merger, Leon Borck, the former Chairman and President of ASB, was appointed to the board of directors of the Company and the board of directors of Equity Bank effective October 2, 2021, in accordance with the terms of the Agreement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1227500/000156459021050279/0001564590-21-050279-index.htm

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