[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 217 (Wednesday, November 9, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 69739]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-29039]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding 
Companies

    The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for 
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 
1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 225), and all other 
applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company 
and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the 
power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the 
banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, 
including the companies listed below.
    The applications listed below, as well as other related filings 
required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the 
Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The application also will be available 
for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested 
persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated 
in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the 
acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether 
the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards 
in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, 
nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these 
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Board of Governors not later than December 5, 2011.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Nadine Wallman, Vice 
President) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
    1. S&T Bancorp Inc., Indiana, Pennsylvania; to acquire and thereby 
merge with Mainline Bancorp Inc., Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, and 
indirectly acquire Mainline National Bank, Portage, Pennsylvania.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Chapelle Davis, Assistant Vice 
President) 1000 Peachtree Street NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30309:
    1. Independent Bancshares, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Red 
Bay, Alabama; to acquire an additional 19.30 percent, for a total of 47 
percent, of the voting shares of Independent Bancshares, Inc., and 
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Community Spirit Bank, both 
in Red Bay, Alabama, and Spirit Bancshares, Inc., and Spirit Bank, both 
in Belmont, Mississippi.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice 
President, Applications and Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San 
Francisco, California 94105-1579:
    1. Carpenter Fund Manager GP, LLC; Carpenter Fund Management 
Company, LLC; Carpenter Community BancFund, L.P.; Carpenter Community 
BanFund--A, L.P.; Carpenter Community BancFund--CA, L.P.; SCJ, Inc.; 
and CCFW, Inc., all in Irvine, California, to acquire more than 24.9 
percent of the voting securities of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp, and 
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Pacific Mercantile Bank, 
both in Costa Mesa, California.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 4, 
2011.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2011-29039 Filed 11-8-11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P