[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 43 (Monday, March 5, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 13127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-5211]



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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 applications will also 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 March 29, 2012.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Adam M. Drimer, Assistant Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. First Palmetto Financial Corporation, Camden, South Carolina; to 
become a bank holding company upon the conversion of First Palmetto 
Savings Bank, F.S.B., Camden, South Carolina, to a state chartered 
commercial bank.
    B. 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 BandFund-CA, L.P., SCJ, Inc., and 
CCFW, Inc., all in Irvine, California; to acquire approximately 28 
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, February 28, 
2012.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2012-5211 Filed 3-2-12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P