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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 23, 2009

Registration No. 333-161965

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Pre-effective Amendment Number Three to

Form S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

under

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

FPB BANCORP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

FLORIDA   6024   65-1147861
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

 

1301 SE Port St. Lucie Boulevard

Port St. Lucie, Florida 34952

(772) 398-1388

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

David W. Skiles

Chief Executive Officer

FPB Bancorp, Inc.

1301 SE Port St. Lucie Boulevard

Port St. Lucie, Florida 34952

(772) 398-1388

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

A. George Igler, Esq. or Richard Pearlman, Esq.

Igler & Dougherty, P.A.

2457 Care Drive

Tallahassee, Florida 32308

 

Gregory C. Yadley, Esq. or Julio C. Esquivel, Esq.

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Bank of America Plaza

101 East Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 2800

Tampa, Florida 33602

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: as soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.    x

If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.    ¨

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.    ¨

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.    ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a small reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer   ¨    Accelerated filer   ¨
Non-accelerated filer   ¨  (Do not check if a Smaller reporting company)    Smaller reporting company   x

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

Title of each class of

securities to be registered

   Amount to be
registered
   Proposed maximum
offering price
per unit(1)
   Proposed maximum
aggregate
offering price(1)
   Amount of
registration fee

Units of Common Stock and Warrants

   4,166,500    $6.00    $24,999,000    $1,394.94(2)

Common Stock, par value $0.01, contained in Units

   16,666,000    Included with above    Included with above    Included with above

Warrants to Purchase Common Stock

   4,166,500    Included with above    Included with above    Included with above

Common Stock, par value $0.01, underlying Warrants

   4,166,500    $2.00    $8,333,000    $464.98(3)
 
(1) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933
(2) Previously paid.
(3) $348.75 was previously paid.

 

 

The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

 


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Subject to Completion, dated November 23, 2009

PROSPECTUS

FPB BANCORP, INC.

FPB Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Our operations are conducted through our wholly-owned subsidiary, First Peoples Bank. First Peoples Bank is a Florida-state chartered commercial bank which commenced operations in 1999.

We are selling up to 4,166,500 units for $6.00 per unit. Each unit is comprised of four shares of our common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of common stock at a price of $2.00 until they expire on December 17, 2014.

The offering period began on                      , 2009 and will terminate on January 15, 2010, unless extended by our Board of Directors until no later than February 26, 2010.

We have engaged Kendrick Pierce & Company Securities, Inc. to act on a best efforts basis as our placement agent in connection with this offering. We will deposit subscriptions for units into an escrow account with NorthStar Bank until we have received subscriptions for a minimum of 833,334 units, representing $5,000,004 in gross proceeds. If we do not receive subscriptions for at least 833,334 units by the termination of the offering, we will promptly return all subscription funds without interest or deduction. If we have sold at least 833,334 units by January 15, 2010, we will conduct a first closing of the offering and will conduct a second closing upon termination of the offering. We will issue certificates for the common stock and warrants sold in the offering promptly after each closing. The maximum size of the offering is 4,166,500 units, representing $24,999,000 in gross proceeds.

Our stock is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “FPBI.” On November 20, 2009, the last reported sale price of our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market was $1.46 per share. Our warrants are not traded on any exchange or market and we do not expect a market for the warrants to develop after this offering.

You should consider the risks which we have described in “Risk Factors ” beginning on page 11 before buying shares of our common stock.

 

 

 

     Per
Unit
   Total

Public offering price

   $ 6.00    $ 24,999,000

Maximum sales commission

   $ 0.36    $ 1,499,940

Proceeds, before expenses, to us

   $ 5.64    $ 23,499,060

 

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

The securities are not savings accounts, deposits or obligations of any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency.

 

 

Kendrick Pierce & Co.

The date of this prospectus is                     , 2009.

 

The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed or supplemented. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement that we have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell the securities and it is not a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities in any jurisdiction where an offer or sale thereof is not permitted.


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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus, including information incorporated herein by reference, may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “may,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “is confident that” and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty and a variety of factors could cause FPB’s actual results and experience to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements. We do not have a policy of updating or revising forward-looking statements except as otherwise required by law, and silence by management over time should not be construed to mean that actual events are occurring as estimated in such forward-looking statements.

Our ability to predict results or the actual effect of future plans or strategies is inherently uncertain. Factors that could have a material adverse effect on our operations and subsidiaries include, but are not limited to, changes in:

 

   

the factors described under the heading “Risk Factors” beginning on page 12,

 

   

general economic conditions,

 

   

legislative/regulatory changes,

 

   

monetary and fiscal policies of the U.S. Government,

 

   

the quality and composition of our loan or investment portfolios,

 

   

demand for loan products,

 

   

deposit flows,

 

   

competition,

 

   

demand for financial services in the Company’s primary trade area,

 

   

litigation, tax and other regulatory matters,

 

   

accounting principles and guidelines, and

 

   

other economic, competitive, governmental, regulatory and technological factors affecting FPB’s operations, pricing and services.

Further information on other factors that could affect us is included in the Securities and Exchange Commission filings incorporated by reference in this prospectus. See also “Risk Factors” contained herein and therein.

ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

In this prospectus, we rely on and refer to information and statistics regarding the banking industry and the Florida market. We obtained this market data from independent publications or other publicly available information. Although we believe these sources are reliable, we have not independently verified and do not guarantee the accuracy and completeness of this information.

As used in this prospectus, “FPB,” “the Company,” “we,” “us,” and “ours” refer to FPB Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiary, First Peoples Bank. The “Bank” refers to First Peoples Bank and its subsidiary, Treasure Coast Holdings, Inc.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information required by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) with the Securities and Exchange


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Commission. You may read and copy any of these filed documents at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, DC, 20549. Please call the Securities and Exchange Commission at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information. Our Securities and Exchange Commission filings are also available to the public from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

Our Internet address is www.1stpeoplesbank.com. FPB makes available through its website, free of charge, its periodic and current reports, proxy and information statements and other information we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and amendments thereto as soon as reasonably practicable after the Company files such material with, or furnishes such material to, the Securities and Exchange Commission, as applicable. Unless specifically incorporated by reference, the information on our website is not part of this prospectus.

This prospectus is part of a Registration Statement and does not contain all of the information included in the Registration Statement. Whenever a reference is made in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement, if applicable, to any contract or other document of ours, you should refer to the exhibits that are a part of the Registration Statement for a copy of the referenced contract or document. Statements contained in this prospectus concerning the provisions of any documents are necessarily summaries of those documents, and each statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the copy of the document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus and may not contain all of the information that may be important to you. You should read this entire prospectus carefully, including the information set forth in “Risk Factors,” our financial statements and related notes, and the other information that is incorporated by reference into this prospectus before making an investment decision.

Our Company

FPB Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding company registered under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended. Our operations are conducted by our wholly-owned subsidiary, First Peoples Bank. First Peoples Bank commenced operations in 1999 and is headquartered in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

At September 30, 2009, we had total consolidated assets of $267.4 million, total deposits of $233.5 million, total consolidated liabilities (including deposits) of $246.3 million and consolidated shareholders’ equity of $21.1 million. For the nine month period ending September 30, 2009, we reported a net loss of $3.4 million, which included a one-time charge of $548,000 relating to a loss on our investment in the parent company of our primary correspondent Bank, Silverton Bank, N.A. and an increased regular Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) assessment of $83,000. In addition, the FDIC has levied special assessments on all banks in the third quarter; our special assessment was $121,000.

We have grown from our initial office to six full-service banking offices located in Port St. Lucie, Stuart, Palm City, Fort Pierce, and Vero Beach, Florida. Our customers are primarily individuals, professionals, small- and medium-size businesses, and seasonal retirees located in our market areas. We operate in a market area that is projected to be one of the fastest growing areas in Florida. Our goal is to be positioned to take advantage of these characteristics as the business cycle stabilizes and turns positive.

Our lending activities are oriented primarily to small to medium-sized businesses, as well as to the consumer and retail customer in our market area. We emphasize superior customer service and responsive decision making delivered with the convenience of modern technology. The deposit services offered by our Bank

 

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include small business and personal checking, savings accounts and certificates of deposit. Our Bank concentrates on customer relationships in building its customer deposit base.

We believe that we have a strong presence in our markets and have the opportunity to capitalize on new lending relationships, along with their corresponding deposits, when the economy improves and we inject new capital into the Bank. Additionally, we believe new capital, coupled with opportunities within our markets, will allow us to selectively hire loan officers with experience in those markets.

We are subject to examination and regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or the FDIC. This regulation is intended for the protection of our depositors and clients, not our shareholders.

Business Strategy

Our business strategy is to be the outstanding financial institution in the communities we serve by providing a high level of personalized service, competitive banking products, a challenging and rewarding work environment for our staff, and attractive and convenient banking offices. We believe that our large and growing market provides a significant opportunity to build a successful independent community-focused banking franchise. We intend to continue to expand our business through internal growth, as well as selective geographic expansion, while maintaining strong asset quality and achieving sustained profitability. The Board regularly reviews our branch network operations to maximize customer convenience, core deposits and branch profitability. Our business strategy incorporates the following elements:

 

   

focusing on relationship lending to small and mid-size businesses in our market area;

 

   

capitalizing on opportunities to serve new customers created by the turmoil being experienced by our competitors and the ongoing consolidation of banks in our market area;

 

   

achieving an optimal level of low-cost funding through building a base of core deposits;

 

   

hiring experienced and qualified personnel;

 

   

expanding our market by selectively establishing new branches;

 

   

expanding the banking products and financial services we offer.

Recent Strategic Initiatives

Due to the current economic environment and our financial performance over the past year, our Board of Directors and senior management have developed and are executing the following operational initiatives:

Increasing capital ratios. In December 2008, we sold 5,800 shares of non-voting Series A Preferred Stock to the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) in the Capital Purchase Program subdivision of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (“TARP”), yielding $5.8 million in capital. The majority of the proceeds from our participation in TARP was down-streamed to our Bank, which increased its capital ratios. Since receiving these funds, we have made every required dividend payment on time and in full. The majority of the proceeds from this offering will also be down-streamed to the Bank. We believe that these two infusions of capital, in addition to our other business strategies, will allow us to address our problem loans and establish a strong position for profitable growth when the current economic downturn is stabilized.

Improving asset quality. We will continue our aggressive approach to managing our loan portfolio. In June 2009, we established a Special Assets Division to manage troubled assets and properties acquired through foreclosure. As part of this initiative, we have incorporated Treasure Coast Holdings, Inc. to hold and manage certain such properties. The Special Assets Division’s objective is to maximize the net present value of assets via

 

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loan sales, underlying asset sales and aggressive loan-by-loan resolutions. In addition, we continue to monitor and adjust our credit standards as we deem appropriate and are actively trying to improve the diversification of our loan portfolio.

Increasing earnings. Our strategy is geared toward increasing earnings in all facets of our operations. Following the offering, we will continue to primarily focus on attaining and maintaining profitable operations.

 

   

Other expense: Over the last twelve months, we have reduced advertising, compensation expenses, professional fees and other operating expenses by 39%, 7%, 11% and 2% respectively and we continue to seek operational efficiencies in all areas. At the same time, however, other operating expenses have seen a sharp increase over the past twelve months, such as legal fees associated with impaired and troubled loans (41%), FDIC assessments (261%) and OREO expenses (781%). We will continue to focus on reducing expenses following this offering.

 

   

Net interest income: We expect improvement of net interest income to be driven by margin expansion as opposed to balance sheet growth. Management’s efforts to improve our net interest income margin includes the establishment of floors on variable and adjustable rate loans, higher margins and fees on new loan originations and loan renewals. We have also increased efforts to attract lower cost checking accounts. Furthermore, a reduction in our non-accrual assets should improve our net interest income.

 

   

Provision for loan losses: As the economy recovers, asset quality stabilizes and improves, and certain problem relationships are resolved, we anticipate being able to reduce our provision for loan losses in future periods.

 

   

Other income: We view the continued expansion of non-interest income as a percentage of total revenue as an important strategic objective. We consider our SBA operation, which originates commercial loans for sale into the secondary market to be a continued source of other income growth.

There can be no assurances that we will be able to successfully implement these initiatives. See “Risk Factors.”

Our Reasons for the Offering

We are conducting this offering principally to raise additional capital to increase the capital of the Bank to maintain its capital ratios, reduce its classified assets and to support its future loan and deposit growth. We also intend to retain a portion of the proceeds at the holding company level to fund expenses at the holding company level to fund dividend payments on our Series A Preferred Stock at such a time when the Federal Reserve again permits us to pay dividends and depending on the amount that is raised and what we elect to down-stream to the Bank, we may apply to the Federal Reserve to redeem the Series A Preferred Stock with a portion of the proceeds of this offering; however, there can be no assurances that the Federal Reserve will approve our application.

The Bank has agreed with the bank regulatory agencies, in a memorandum of understanding, that by December 31, 2009 and thereafter, the Bank will maintain a Tier 1 leverage capital ratio of not less than 8% and a total risk-based capital ratio of not less than 11%. As of September 30, 2009, we would need to contribute $5.7 million in capital to the Bank to reach these levels. If we do not raise sufficient capital in this offering to reach those levels, we may attempt to do so by reducing our asset size, otherwise we would not be in compliance with the memorandum of understanding. The Bank has also committed to reducing its ratio of assets that were adversely classified as of March 16, 2009, to the sum of its capital and allowance for loan and lease losses on a graduated basis over the next year, culminating in a ratio of 60% by September 2010. At September 30, 2009, that ratio was 96.5%. At September 30, 2009, due to additional provision for loan losses of $2.0 million in the third quarter, the Bank was considered “adequately capitalized”, with ratios as follows: Tier 1 leverage capital ratio of 6.26% and a total risk-based capital ratio of 9.40%, with FPB retaining $285,000 in cash at the holding company level which could be down-streamed to the Bank as capital. We may not be able to comply with the memorandum of understanding by December 31, 2009. See “Risk Factors.”

 

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Regulatory Matters

At the request of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (“Federal Reserve”) our Board of Directors, on October 21, 2009 adopted resolutions limiting us from reducing our capital position. Pursuant to these resolutions, we have committed to: (i) not incurring debt at the holding company level without prior Federal Reserve approval; (ii) not paying dividends on our securities (including our Series A Preferred Stock) without prior Federal Reserve approval; (iii) not purchasing or redeeming stock without Federal Reserve approval; (iv) not making any other payment which would represent a reduction in capital, other than normal and routine operating expenses; and (v) providing to the Federal Reserve on a quarterly basis, a parent-only balance sheet and confirmation of compliance with the resolutions. These resolutions prohibit us from paying dividends on, or redeeming, the Series A Preferred Stock without Federal Reserve approval See “Risk Factors.”

Based on the Bank’s financial condition at September 30, 2009, we anticipate that the FDIC will request the Bank to stipulate to the entry of a formal enforcement action. Formal enforcement actions include cease and desist orders, consent orders and written agreements. Although we do not know what form the enforcement action will take or when the FDIC will provide the Bank with the proposed action, we expect the FDIC will act by the end of 2009 or early 2010. While the final form and terms of such action are not yet determinable, we expect the areas addressed in the memorandum of understanding described under “Our Reasons for the Offering” to be the primary areas of the FDIC’s concern. The Bank has been aggressively working on improving its performance and condition in these areas. We believe that the successful completion of this offering will help to improve the condition of the Bank and help to address many of the FDIC’s and OFR’s concerns. See “Risk Factors.”

Loan Portfolio

During the current recession our earnings have been materially affected by required provisions for loan losses stemming from deterioration in our commercial real estate and consumer loan portfolios. In mid-2008, we formulated a plan to reduce our exposure to weaker lending relationships. Management’s practice has been to do business with borrowers in our area who we know. The Bank did not fund any sub-prime loans and had very limited exposure to non-owner occupied commercial real estate and residential real estate. We have moved further away from this class of assets by establishing a moratorium on residential construction and development lending in the current economic environment. As of September 30, 2009, we have reduced our exposure in total construction and development loans by more than $12.2 million, or 84% from September 30, 2008. The majority of the Bank’s loans are owner occupied commercial loans to local business borrowers or consumer loans to their employees. Our market area as a whole has felt the impact of the residential real estate market’s deterioration and our customers appear to be working hard to adjust their business plans to this new reality.

Over the last nine months, we have taken several properties into our subsidiary incorporated for the purpose of divesting our foreclosed assets, and we are actively working to market these properties. For example, in 2009, we have: (i) sold two commercial properties carried at $1.8 million for $2.1 million in September; (ii) sold two vacant lots carried at $60,000 for $65,000 in July; (iii) sold three residential properties carried at $417,000 for $383,000; and (iv) entered into contracts for sale for a total of $281,000 on two single family homes, carried at a total of $372,000. We have also had a great deal of success working with our borrowers to move properties to new owners instead of taking them back.

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At September 30, 2009, the composition of our loan portfolio was (dollars in thousands):

 

      Outstanding Loans     Non-performing Loans  
     Balance
Outstanding
   % of Loan
Portfolio
    % of Total
Assets
    Balance
Outstanding
   % of
Non-performing
Loans
 

Commercial Real Estate

   $ 107,203    55.55   40.09   $ 9,735    55.94

Multi-Family Loans

     1,346    0.70   0.50     —      0.00
                                

Total Commercial Real Estate

   $ 108,549    56.25   40.59   $ 9,735    55.94
                                

Commercial and Industrial

     64,774    33.57   24.22     6,430    36.95

Construction and Land Development

     986    0.51   0.37     402    2.31

Residential

     382    0.20   0.14     —      0.00

Consumer Real Estate

     3,060    1.59   1.14     226    1.30

Home Equity Lines of Credit

     4,008    2.08   1.50     400    2.30

Other Consumer Loans

     11,195    5.80   4.19     209    1.20
                                

Total Consumer Loans

   $ 18,263    9.47   6.83   $ 835    4.80
                                

Total

   $ 192,954    100.00   72.15   $ 17,402    100.00
                                

Our Management Team

We believe that the substantial experience and continuity of our senior management team will aid us in executing our business plan and continuing our growth.

 

Name of Officer

  Years
with
FPB
  Years in
Banking
 

Position

David W. Skiles

  11   42   Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company & the Bank

Marge Riley

  10   25   Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of the Company & the Bank

Nancy E. Aumack

  8   27   Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of the Company & the Bank

William V. West

  5   19   Senior Lender and Senior Vice President of the Company & the Bank

Stephen J. Krumfolz

  10   20   SBA Commercial Lender and Senior Vice President of the Bank

Melissa M. Favorite

  10   23   BSA/Compliance Officer and Senior Vice President of the Bank

Randy J. Riley

  4   39   Special Assets Manager and Senior Vice President of the Bank

Craig C. Dietz

  5   5   Senior Vice President, Credit Administration of the Bank

Our Participation in the Capital Purchase Program

In December 2008, we sold 5,800 shares of non-voting Series A Preferred Stock, yielding aggregate proceeds of $5.8 million, and issued a warrant to purchase up to 183,158 shares of our common stock, at $4.75 per share, to the Treasury under TARP. Since receiving these funds, we have made every required dividend payment on time and in full. If we raise at least $5.8 million in this offering that is accounted for as Tier 1 capital, the amount of shares underlying the warrant will be reduced by 50%. The resolutions our Board adopted on October 21, 2009, however, preclude us from making future payments on the Series A Preferred Stock without Federal Reserve approval. Any unpaid dividends will accumulate and we will be obligated to pay them prior to making any dividend payments to our common stockholders. In addition, if we defer any six dividend payments, consecutively or nonconsecutively, the Treasury will be permitted to appoint a new director to our Board of Directors.

 

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Corporate Information

Our principal executive office is located at 1301 S.E. Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie, Florida 34952, and our telephone number is (772) 398-1388. We maintain an Internet website at www.1stpeoplesbank.com.

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SUMMARY FINANCIAL DATA

Our summary financial data presented below as of and for the years ended December 31, 2006, December 31, 2007 and December 31, 2008, is derived from our audited financial statements. Our summary financial data presented below as of September 30, 2009 and September 30, 2008 and for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2008 and September 30, 2009, is derived from our unaudited financial statements. Such financial statements are included with our Forms 10-Q and Form 10-K incorporated by reference into this Prospectus. The following Summary Financial Data should be read in conjunction with the “Our Business and Analysis of Financial Condition” section contained in this Prospectus and the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation” sections contained in those Forms 10-Q and Form 10-K. The Company’s historical results are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected in future periods. (Dollars in thousands).

 

     At or for the Nine Months Ending
September 30,
    At or for the Year Ending
December 31,
 
          2009               2008          2008     2007     2006  

Balance Sheet Data:

          

Total assets

   $ 267,436      $ 231,263      $ 239,173      $ 196,753      $ 153,439   

Total loans, net

   $ 187,810      $ 184,599      $ 184,182      $ 172,251      $ 130,133   

Total deposits

   $ 233,538      $ 208,787      $ 200,683      $ 172,677      $ 130,219   

Shareholders’ equity

   $ 21,098      $ 20,420      $ 24,896      $ 21,931      $ 21,063   

Total preferred shareholders equity

   $ 5,348      $ —        $ 5,279      $ —        $ —     

Total common shareholders equity

   $ 15,750      $ 20,420      $ 19,617      $ 21,931      $ 21,063   

Income Statement Data:

          

Net interest income

   $ 4,696      $ 5,332      $ 6,851      $ 7,528      $ 6,650   

Provision for loan and lease losses

   $ 3,913      $ 1,728      $ 4,059      $ 885      $ 429   

Non-interest income

   $ 902      $ 638      $ 874      $ 996      $ 824   

Non-interest expense

   $ 7,603      $ 6,365      $ 8,464      $ 7,385      $ 6,082   

Income tax (benefit)

   $ (2,483   $ (808   $ (1,820   $ 77      $ 332   

Net (loss) earnings

   $ (3,435   $ (1,315   $ (2,978   $ 177      $ 631   

Preferred stock dividend requirements and amortization of preferred stock discount

   $ 287      $ —        $ 26      $ —        $ —     

Net (loss) earnings available to common shareholders

   $ (3,722   $ (1,315   $ (3,004   $ 177      $ 631   

Per Share and Preferred Shares Outstanding Data(1):

          

Basic net (loss) earnings per common share

   $ (1.81   $ (.64   $ (1.46   $ .09      $ .32   

Diluted net (loss) earnings per common share

   $ (1.81   $ (.64   $ (1.46   $ .09      $ .31   

Book value per common share at year or period-end

   $ 7.65      $ 9.92      $ 9.53      $ 10.66      $ 11.05   

Common shares outstanding, year or period-end

     2,058,047        2,058,047        2,058,047        2,058,047        1,906,203   

Average common shares outstanding, basic

     2,058,047        2,058,047        2,058,047        2,017,553        1,998,871   

Average common shares outstanding, diluted

     2,058,047        2,058,047        2,058,047        2,034,070        2,030,344   

Performance Ratios:

          

Return on average assets

     (1.78 )%      (.82 )%      (1.37 )%      .10     .43

Return on average equity

     (19.72 )%      (8.28 )%      (13.97 )%      .83     3.04

Net interest margin

     2.68     3.52     3.33     4.53     4.79

Asset Quality Ratios:

          

Allowance to year or period-end loans

     2.33     1.40     1.36     1.36     1.36

Non-performing loans to allowance for loan losses

     386.37     390.02     405.76     73.13     19.10

Non-performing loans to total loans

     9.02     5.47     5.53     1.00     .26

Non-performing assets to total assets

     9.14     4.53     5.05     .89     .22

Net chargeoffs to average loans

     1.04     .81     2.11     .19     .01

Capital Ratios:

          

Total risk-based capital ratio

     9.40     10.74     10.88     11.09     10.45

Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio

     8.14     9.49     9.63     9.83     9.29

Tier 1 leverage capital ratio

     6.26     8.41     8.27     9.09     8.08

Total equity to total assets

     7.89     8.83     10.41     11.15     13.73

Other Data:

          

Number of full-time employees

     73        69        70        78        70   

Number of full-service branch offices

     6        6        6        4        4   

 

 

(1) All per share amounts reflect the 5% stock dividends declared on May 16, 2007 and paid on June 15, 2007.

 

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THE OFFERING

General

 

Securities Offered

4,166,500 Units. Each Unit consists of four shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share and a warrant to purchase one share of common stock.

 

Offering Price

$6.00 per Unit.

 

Maximum Shares Outstanding after Offering

18,724,047 shares of common stock. This total assumes that none of the Company’s outstanding warrants or options, and none of the warrants issued in this offering, have been exercised.

 

Terms of Warrants

Each warrant will permit the holder thereof to purchase one share of common stock at a purchase price of $2.00 per share. The warrants are transferable and will expire on December 17, 2014. A copy of the Warrant Plan is Exhibit A to this Confidential Offering Memorandum. To the extent any portion of this summary description conflicts with the terms of the Warrant Plan, the Warrant Plan shall control.

 

Use of Proceeds

We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering to provide capital to the Bank to maintain its capital ratios, reduce its classified assets and to support its future loan and deposit growth, to fund the dividend payments on our Series A Preferred Stock (subject to Federal Reserve approval), and to fund our operating expenses at the holding company level. Additionally, depending on the amount of the net proceeds, we may elect to apply to the Federal Reserve to redeem our Series A Preferred Stock. At this time, we can not estimate with any reasonable certainty what percentages of any proceeds would be utilized for any particular purpose.

 

Minimum Offering

We will not close the offering and issue the securities comprising the Units unless we receive and accept subscriptions for at least 833,334 Units, for $5,000,004 in gross proceeds.

 

Maximum Offering

We will sell a maximum of 4,166,500 Units, representing 24,999,000 in gross proceeds.

 

Intentions of Directors and Executive Officers

Each of our directors and executive officers has indicated his or her intent to purchase Units in the offering. Based on initial indications of interest, we expect our directors and three executive officers to purchase in the aggregate at least 50,000 Units, or approximately $300,000 in subscriptions.

Other Terms of the Offering

 

Best Efforts Offering

The Units are being offered on a “best efforts” basis through our Placement Agent, Kendrick Pierce & Co. This means that Kendrick Pierce & Co. is not required to purchase any Units and is only required to use its best efforts to sell Units to investors in this offering.

 

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Offering Period

The offering will expire on January 15, 2010 at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, or earlier in our sole discretion. We have the right, however, to extend the offering until no later than February 26, 2010 without notice to subscribers.

 

Minimum Purchase

With the exception of our shareholders of record as of October 9, 2009, who have no minimum purchase requirement, investors must subscribe for a minimum of 1,700 Units in order to participate in the offering. The Board has reserved the right, however, to waive this minimum purchase requirement, in its sole discretion.

 

Purchase Limitations

We reserve the right to reject any subscription, in whole or in part. Units will not be issued, without prior approval, to any person who, in the Board of Directors’ opinion, would be required to obtain prior approval from any state or federal regulatory authority to own or control our securities.

 

Subscription Procedures

Subscribers must remit payment to the Placement Agent for the subscribed for Units prior to closing and may authorize the Placement Agent to withdraw funds from a securities account to pay the purchase price. FPB shall place all subscription funds in an escrow account pending the closing and the issuance of the Units.

 

Placement Agent Fees

We will not pay a placement agent fee or commission on any Units sold to our directors, officers, employees or members of any of their immediate families. We will pay to Kendrick Pierce & Co. a placement agent fee of 2% of the amount sold to FPB shareholders of record as of October 9, 2009 and 6% of the amount sold to all other investors. We will not pay any placement agent fees upon a warrantholder’s exercise of warrants.

 

Risk Factors

You should carefully read the “Risk Factors” section beginning on page 11 of this Prospectus before making any investment decision or purchasing any Units.

 

Information about the Offering

Questions concerning the offering should be directed only to Kendrick Pierce & Co. at (866) 254-2265, ext. 209.

 

Trading Symbol

Our common stock trades on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “FPBI.” There is no public market for our warrants and we do not expect one to develop after the offering.

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RISK FACTORS

Risks Related to Our Business

Changes in business and economic conditions, in particular those of the Florida markets in which we operate, could continue to lead to lower asset quality, and lower earnings.

Unlike larger national or regional banks that are more geographically diversified, our business and earnings are closely tied to general business and economic conditions, particularly the economy of St. Lucie, Martin and Indian River Counties, Florida. The local economy is heavily influenced by tourism, real estate, and other service-based industries. Factors that could affect the local economy include declines in tourism, higher energy costs, reduced consumer or corporate spending, natural disasters or adverse weather, the recent and possibly continuing significant decline in real estate values and the recent significant deterioration in general economic conditions. Although there is hope that the biotech industry coming to Port St. Lucie will influence positive change in the economic structure of the city and the immediate surrounding area, a sustained economic downturn could adversely affect the quality of our assets, credit losses, and the demand for our products and services, which could lead to lower revenue and lower earnings. The Florida economy continued to weaken during 2009. We continually monitor changes in the economy, changes in housing prices, and unemployment rates. We also monitor the value of collateral, such as real estate, that secures loans we have made. A decline in the value of collateral could also reduce a customer’s borrowing power.

Difficult market conditions could continue to adversely affect us and our industry.

Dramatic declines in asset values, including in the housing and commercial real estate markets, over the past year have negatively impacted credit performance of many financial institutions’ loans. Many lenders have reduced, and in some cases, ceased providing funding to borrowers, including other financial institutions, reflecting concern about the stability of financial markets, generally, and the strength of counterparties, specifically. This market turmoil and tightening of credit has led to an increased level of commercial and consumer delinquencies for other financial institutions, a lack of confidence in the financial sector, and increased volatility in the financial markets. The resulting economic pressure on consumers and lack of confidence in the financial markets may adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Recent negative developments in the financial services industry and the U.S. and global credit markets may continue to adversely impact our operations, results and stock price.

Negative developments over the past year in the capital markets have resulted in uncertainty in the financial markets in general, with the expectation of the general economic downturn continuing through 2009 and beyond. Loan portfolio performances have deteriorated at many institutions resulting from, among other factors, a weak economy and a decline in the value of the collateral supporting their loans. The competition for deposits has increased significantly due to liquidity concerns at many of these same institutions. As a result, there is a likelihood of new Federal or state laws and regulations regarding lending and funding practices and capital and liquidity standards, and financial institution regulatory agencies are expected to be very aggressive in responding to concerns and trends identified in examinations, including the expected issuance of many formal enforcement actions. Negative developments in the financial services industry and the impact of any new legislation and regulation in response to those developments could negatively and materially impact our operations by restricting our business operations, including our ability to originate or sell loans, and adversely impact our financial performance.

We may become subject to enforcement actions that could have a material negative effect on our business, operations, financial condition, results of operations or the value of our common stock.

The Bank has entered into a memorandum of understanding with its regulatory agencies. Pursuant to that, we have agreed to increase capital levels, decrease commercial real estate loan concentration, improve asset quality by reducing classified assets, take steps to increase earnings and decrease reliance on brokered deposits.

 

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In addition, at the request of the Federal Reserve, our Board of Directors adopted resolutions prohibiting us from incurring debt or reducing our capital through dividends, stock repurchases or other non-routine expenditures without the approval of the Federal Reserve.

In addition, based on the Bank’s financial condition at September 30, 2009, we anticipate that the FDIC will request the Bank to stipulate to the entry of a formal enforcement action. Formal enforcement actions include cease and desist orders, consent orders and written agreements. Although we do not know what form the enforcement action will take or when the FDIC will provide the Bank with the proposed action, we expect the FDIC to take action by the end of 2009 or early 2010. While the final form and terms of such action are not yet determinable, we expect the areas addressed in the memorandum of understanding described above to be the primary areas of the FDIC’s concern. The Bank has been aggressively working on improving its performance and condition in these areas.

If we are unable to maintain sufficient capital levels after this offering, improve our asset quality, commercial real estate loan concentration, core funding usage and earnings, comply with the memorandum of understanding, or if our regulators pursue formal or informal enforcement actions against the Company or the Bank, we could become subject to additional, heightened enforcement actions and orders. Although we expect the $5,000,000 minimum offering amount to be beneficial in meeting our capital needs, it may not be enough to address all of our immediate capital needs and would not result in us meeting our capital requirements on a pro forma basis as of September 30, 2009. If our regulators were to take such additional enforcement actions, then we could, among other things, become subject to restrictions on our ability to develop any new business, as well as restrictions on our existing business, and we could be required to raise additional capital, dispose of certain assets and liabilities within a prescribed period of time, or both. The terms of any such enforcement action could have a material negative effect on our business, operations, financial condition, results of operations or the value of our common stock.

Our financial performance will be negatively impacted if we are unable to execute our growth strategy.

Our success depends primarily on generating loans and deposits of acceptable risk and expense. There can be no assurances that we will be successful in continuing our organic, or internal, growth strategy, which depends upon economic conditions, our ability to identify appropriate markets for expansion, our ability to recruit and retain qualified personnel, our ability to fund growth at a reasonable cost, our ability to maintain sufficient capital to support our growth initiatives, competitive factors, banking laws, and other factors. As we implement our growth strategy, we may incur increased personnel, occupancy and other operating expenses. As we increase our overhead, we must absorb those higher expenses while we begin to generate new deposits and loans, and there is also a time lag involved in redeploying new deposits into attractively priced loans and other higher yielding earning assets. Consequently, our plans to grow will likely depress our earnings in the short run, even if we efficiently execute our strategy.

If real estate values in our markets continue to decline, our loan portfolio may become impaired.

A significant portion of our loan portfolio consists of mortgages secured by real estate located in St. Lucie, Martin and Indian River Counties, Florida. As of September 30, 2009, 56.3% of our loan portfolio consisted of commercial real estate loans, and 0.20% of our loan portfolio consisted of residential real estate loans. Real estate values in our market have recently decreased and may continue to decline due to: changes in national, regional or local economic conditions; fluctuations in interest rates and the availability of loans to potential purchasers; changes in the tax laws and other governmental statutes, regulations and policies; and acts of nature. If real estate values continue to decline in our market, the value of the real estate collateral securing our loans will likely be reduced. Such a reduction in the value of our collateral could increase the number of nonperforming loans, reduce our ability to realize on our collateral and thereby adversely affect our financial performance.

 

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Our loan portfolio includes a substantial amount of commercial real estate loans.

Our commercial real estate loans and construction and development loans accounted for $109.5 million, or 56.8%, of our total loan portfolio as of September 30, 2009. Of this total, however, $73.7 million was secured by owner-occupied commercial real estate. The credit risk associated with these types of loans is a result of several factors, including the concentration of principal in a limited number of loans and to borrowers in similar lines of business, the size of loan balances, the effects of general economic conditions on income-producing properties and the increased difficulty of evaluating and monitoring these types of loans. Repayment of loans secured by commercial real estate in some cases is dependent upon the successful operation, development or sale of the related real estate or commercial project. If the cash flow from the project is reduced, the borrower’s ability to repay the loan may be impaired. This cash flow shortage may result in the failure to make loan payments. In these cases, we may be compelled to modify the terms of the loan. As a result, repayment of these loans may, to a greater extent than other types of loans, be subject to adverse conditions in the real estate market or economy. The banking regulators continue to give CRE lending greater scrutiny, and banks with higher levels of CRE loans are expected to implement improved underwriting, internal controls, risk management policies and portfolio stress testing, as well as higher levels of allowances for possible losses and capital levels as a result of CRE lending growth and exposures. During 2008, we added $4.1 million of provisions for loan losses compared to $885,000 in 2007 and $429,000 in 2006, in part reflecting collateral evaluations in response to recent changes in the market values of land collateralizing acquisition and development loans. An additional $3.9 million in provisions for loan losses have been taken in 2009 through September 30.

Like most banking organizations, our business is highly susceptible to the credit risk that some of our borrowers may not repay their loans and losses from loan defaults may exceed the allowance we establish for that purpose, which may have an adverse effect on our business.

As a lender, we are exposed to the risk that our customers will be unable to repay their loans according to their terms and that the collateral securing the payment of their loans (if any) may not be sufficient to assure repayment. Credit losses could have a material adverse effect on our operating results. This risk is inherent in the banking business. If a significant amount of loans due are not repaid, it would have an adverse effect on our earnings and overall financial condition. As of September 30, 2009, $17.4 million, or 9.02%, of our loan portfolio were classified as non-performing. Like all financial institutions, we maintain an allowance for loan losses to provide for loan defaults and nonperformance. The allowance for loan losses reflects our management’s best estimate of probable losses in the loan portfolio at the relevant time. This evaluation is primarily based upon a review of our and the banking industry’s historical loan loss experience, known risks contained in the loan portfolio, composition and growth of the loan portfolio, and economic factors. Although we believe that our current allowance for loan losses is adequate and that the methodology we are currently using to determine our provision for loan losses is sound, the process of establishing an appropriate level of loan loss allowance is an inherently difficult process and is based on numerous assumptions. As a result, our allowance for loan losses may not be adequate to cover actual losses, and future provisions for loan losses may adversely affect our earnings.

Current levels of market volatility are unprecedented.

The capital and credit markets have been experiencing volatility and disruption for more than a year. In some cases, the markets have produced downward pressure on stock prices and credit availability for certain issuers without regard to those issuers’ underlying financial condition or performance. If current levels of market disruption and volatility continue or worsen, we may experience adverse effects, which may be material, on our ability to maintain or access capital and on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Liquidity risks could affect operations and jeopardize our financial condition.

Liquidity is essential to our business. An inability to raise funds through deposits, borrowings, the sale of loans and other sources could have a substantial negative effect on our liquidity. Our funding sources include federal funds purchased, securities sold under repurchase agreements, non-core deposits, and short- and long-

 

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term debt. We are also members of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, where we can obtain advances collateralized with eligible assets. We maintain a portfolio of securities that can be used as a secondary source of liquidity. There are other sources of liquidity available to us should they be needed, including the issuance and sale of debt securities, and the issuance and sale of preferred or common securities in public or private transactions. Our access to funding sources in amounts adequate to finance or capitalize our activities or on terms which are acceptable to us could be impaired by factors that affect us specifically or the financial services industry or economy in general. Our ability to borrow could also be impaired by factors that are not specific to us, such as further disruption in the financial markets or negative views and expectations about the prospects for the financial services industry in light of the recent turmoil faced by banking organizations and the continued deterioration in credit markets.

We are required to maintain capital to meet regulatory requirements, and if we fail to maintain sufficient capital, whether due to losses, an inability to raise additional capital or otherwise, our financial condition, liquidity and results of operations, as well as our regulatory requirements, would be adversely affected.

The Bank must meet regulatory capital requirements and maintain sufficient liquidity. Our ability to raise additional capital, when and if needed, will depend on conditions in the capital markets, economic conditions and a number of other factors, including investor perceptions regarding the banking industry and market condition, and governmental activities, many of which are outside our control, and on our financial condition and performance. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that we will be able to raise additional capital if needed or on terms acceptable to us. If we fail to meet these capital and other regulatory requirements, our financial condition, liquidity and results of operations would be materially and adversely affected.

Our failure to remain “well capitalized” for bank regulatory purposes could affect customer confidence, our ability to grow, our costs of funds and FDIC insurance costs, our ability to pay dividends on common and preferred stock, our ability to make acquisitions, and our business, results of operation and financial conditions, generally. Under FDIC rules, if the Bank ceases to be a “well capitalized” institution for bank regulatory purposes, its ability to accept brokered deposits may be restricted, and the interest rates that it pays may be restricted. At September 30, 2009, we were not considered “well capitalized.”

In addition, the Bank has agreed with the bank regulatory agencies, in a memorandum of understanding, that by December 31, 2009 and thereafter, the Bank will maintain a Tier 1 leverage capital ratio of not less than 8% and a total risk-based capital ratio of not less than 11%. The Bank has also committed to reducing its ratio of classified assets to capital and the allowance for loan and lease losses on a graduated basis over the next year, culminating in a ratio of 60% by August 2010.

Nonperforming assets take significant time to resolve and adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition, and could result in further losses in the future.

At December 31, 2008 and September 30, 2009, our nonperforming loans (which consist of non-accrual loans and accruing loans over 90 days delinquent) totaled $10.4 million and $17.4 million, or 5.53% and 9.02% of the loan portfolio, respectively. At December 31, 2008 and September 30, 2009, our nonperforming assets (which include foreclosed real estate) were $12.1 million and $24.4 million, or 5.05% and 9.14% of assets, respectively. Our non-performing assets adversely affect our net income in various ways. Until economic and market conditions improve, we expect to continue to incur additional losses relating to an increase in non-performing loans. We do not record interest income on non-accrual loans or other real estate owned, thereby adversely affecting our income, and increasing our loan administration costs. When we take collateral in foreclosures and similar proceedings, we are required to mark the related loan to the then fair market value of the collateral, which may result in a loss. These loans and other real estate owned also increase our risk profile and the capital our regulators believe is appropriate in light of such risks. While we have reduced our problem assets through loan sales, workouts, restructurings and otherwise, decreases in the value of these assets, or the underlying collateral, or in these borrowers’ performance or financial conditions, whether or not due to economic

 

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and market conditions beyond our control, could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. In addition, the resolution of nonperforming assets requires significant commitments of time from management and our directors, which can be detrimental to the performance of their other responsibilities. There can be no assurance that we will not experience further increases in nonperforming loans in the future, or that our nonperforming assets will not result in further losses in the future.

Changes in interest rates could have significant adverse effects on our financial condition and results of operations.

Fluctuations in interest rates could have significant adverse effects on our financial condition and results of operations. We are unable to predict changes in market interest rates, which are affected by many factors beyond our control, including inflation, recession, unemployment, money supply, domestic and international events and changes in financial markets in the United States and in other countries. Our net interest income is affected not only by the level and direction of interest rates, but also by the shape of the yield curve and relationships between interest sensitive instruments and key driver rates, as well as balance sheet growth, client loan and deposit preferences and the timing of changes in these variables. In an environment in which interest rates are increasing, our interest costs on liabilities may increase more rapidly than our income on interest-earning assets. This could result in a deterioration of our net interest margin.

We face strong competition in our market areas that may limit our asset growth and profitability.

Our primary market areas are St. Lucie, Martin and Indian River Counties, Florida. The banking business in these areas is extremely competitive, and the level of competition may increase further, which may limit our asset growth and profitability. We experience competition in both lending and attracting deposits from other banks, savings institutions, and non-bank financial institutions located within our market area, many of which are significantly larger institutions. These institutions, which include Bank of America, Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo), Riverside National Bank of Florida, National City Bank (now PNC Bank), Seacoast National Bank, and SunTrust Bank offer services, including extensive and established branch networks and trust services, that we do not provide. Non-bank competitors competing for deposits and deposit-type accounts include mortgage bankers and brokers, finance companies, credit unions, securities firms, money market funds, life insurance companies and the mutual funds industry. For loans, we encounter competition from other banks, savings associations, finance companies, mortgage bankers and brokers, insurance companies, small loan and credit card companies, credit unions, pension trusts and securities firms, including many competing lenders that are outside our geographic market area.

Our ability to realize our deferred tax assets may be reduced in the future if our estimates of future taxable income from our operations and tax planning strategies do not support this amount, and the amount of net operating loss carryforwards realizable for income tax purposes may be reduced under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code by sales of our capital securities.

As of September 30, 2009, we had deferred tax assets of $4.2 million. These and future deferred tax assets may be reduced in the future if our estimates of future taxable income from our operations and tax planning strategies do not support the amount of the deferred tax asset. The amount of net operating loss carryforwards realizable for income tax purposes may be reduced under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code by this offering and/or other sales of our capital securities.

Reputational risk and social factors may impact our results.

Our ability to originate and maintain accounts is highly dependent upon consumer and other external perceptions of our business practices and/or our financial health. Adverse perceptions regarding our business practices and/or our financial health could damage our reputation in both the customer and funding markets, leading to difficulties in generating and maintaining accounts as well as in financing them. Adverse

 

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developments with respect to the consumer or other external perceptions regarding the practices of our competitors, or our industry as a whole, may also adversely impact our reputation. In addition, adverse reputational impacts on third parties with whom we have important relationships may also adversely impact our reputation. Adverse impacts on our reputation, or the reputation of our industry, may also result in greater regulatory and/or legislative scrutiny, which may lead to laws or regulations that may change or constrain the manner in which we engage with our customers and the products we offer. Adverse reputational impacts or events may also increase our litigation risk. We carefully monitor internal and external developments for areas of potential reputational risk and have established governance structures to assist in evaluating such risks in our business practices and decisions.

We operate in an environment highly regulated by state and federal government; changes in federal and state banking laws and regulations could have a negative impact on our business.

As a Florida state chartered commercial bank, the Bank is regulated primarily by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation (“OFR”) and the FDIC. In addition, the parent holding company is regulated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Federal and various state laws and regulations govern numerous aspects of the Bank’s operations, including:

 

   

Adequate capital and financial condition;

 

   

Permissible types and amounts of extensions of credit and investments;

 

   

Permissible non-banking activities; and

 

   

Restrictions on dividend payments.

Federal and state regulatory agencies have extensive discretion and power to prevent or remedy unsafe or unsound practices or violations of law by banks and bank holding companies. We also undergo periodic examinations by the regulatory agencies. Following such examinations, we may be required, among other things, to change our asset valuations or the amounts of required loan loss allowances or to restrict our operations. Those actions would result from the banking regulators’ judgments, based on information available to them at the time of their examination.

Recent legislation in response to market and economic conditions may significantly affect our operations, financial condition, and earnings.

Disruptions in the financial system during 2008 and 2009 resulted in significantly reduced business activity in the global and U.S. economies, which could potentially and significantly affect financial institutions. In response to this financial crisis affecting the banking system and financial markets, the U.S. Treasury was given the authority to purchase assets or securities of U.S. financial institutions. The FDIC also began to temporarily provide a 100% guarantee of the senior debt of all FDIC insured institutions, as well as deposits in non-interest-bearing transaction deposit accounts. These actions have combined to respond to this unprecedented financial crisis. It is not clear what impact these actions, or future actions, of the Federal government, will have on the financial markets or on the U.S. banking and financial services industries and the broader U.S. and global economies. These new laws, regulations, and changes could increase our FDIC insurance premiums and may also increase our costs of regulatory compliance and of doing business, and otherwise affect our operations.

Due to the resolutions our Board adopted at the request of the Federal Reserve, we may not be able to pay dividends on our Series A Preferred Stock.

In October 2009, our Board of Directors adopted certain resolutions at the request of the Federal Reserve. Pursuant to those resolutions, we have agreed not to reduce our capital, which includes a prohibition on paying dividends without Federal Reserve approval. As a result of this, we do not expect to be able to pay the dividends

 

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due on our Series A Preferred Stock beginning with the payment due on February 15, 2009. Therefore, in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Company, the holder or holders of our Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive for each share of Series A Preferred Stock the liquidation amount, plus the amount of any accrued and unpaid dividends. Additionally, if we fail to make six quarterly dividend payments, whether or not consecutive, the Treasury will have the right to appoint two directors to our Board of Directors until all accrued but unpaid dividends have been paid.

The TARP and the ARRA impose certain executive compensation and corporate governance requirements that may adversely affect us and our business, including our ability to recruit and retain qualified employees.

The purchase agreement we entered into in connection with our participation in the TARP required us to adopt the Treasury’s standards for executive compensation and corporate governance while the Treasury holds the equity issued pursuant to the TARP, including the common stock which may be issued pursuant to a warrant, which we refer to as the TARP Assistance Period. These standards generally apply to our chief executive officer, chief financial officer and the three next most highly compensated senior executive officers. The standards include:

 

   

ensuring that incentive compensation for senior executives does not encourage unnecessary and excessive risks that threaten the value of the financial institution;

 

   

required clawback of any bonus or incentive compensation paid to a senior executive based on statements of earnings, gains or other criteria that are later proven to be materially inaccurate;

 

   

prohibition on making golden parachute payments to senior executives; and

 

   

agreement not to deduct for tax purposes executive compensation in excess of $500,000 for each senior executive.

In particular, the change to the deductibility limit on executive compensation may increase the overall cost of our compensation programs in future periods.

The ARRA imposed further limitations on compensation during the TARP Assistance Period including:

 

   

a prohibition on making any golden parachute payment to a senior executive officer or any of our next five most highly compensated employees;

 

   

a prohibition on any compensation plan that would encourage manipulation of the reported earnings to enhance the compensation of any of its employees; and

 

   

a prohibition of our Chief Executive Officer from receiving or accruing any bonus, retention award, or incentive compensation, or bonus except for long-term restricted stock with a value not greater than one-third of the total amount of annual compensation of the employee receiving the stock.

The Treasury released an interim final rule on TARP standards for compensation and corporate governance on June 10, 2009, which implemented and further expanded the limitations and restrictions imposed on executive compensation and corporate governance by the TARP and ARRA. The new Treasury interim final rules, which became effective on June 15, 2009, also prohibit any tax gross-up payments to senior executive officers and the next 20 highest paid executives. The rule further authorizes the Treasury to establish the Office of the Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation with broad powers to review compensation plans and corporate governance matters of TARP recipients.

 

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As a result of these requirements, we have amended each of our employment and change in control agreements to suspend our obligation to make any golden parachute payments during any period of time when they are prohibited by the requirements of TARP. We have also suspended the consideration of paying any cash bonus to our Chief Executive Officer during the TARP Assistance Period. As part of our administration of our corporate governance and compensation policies, the Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors has committed to meeting at least twice a year to discuss and review our compensation policies and practices. As part of this process, the Compensation Committee ensures that such policies and practices do not encourage manipulation of reported results of operations or unnecessary risk taking, but rather are focused on creating long term value for the Company’s shareholders.

These provisions and any future rules issued by the Treasury could adversely affect our ability to attract and retain management capable and motivated sufficiently to manage and operate our business through difficult economic and market conditions. If we are unable to attract and retain qualified employees to manage and operate our business, we may not be able to successfully execute our business strategy.

TARP lending goals may not be attainable.

Congress and the bank regulators have encouraged recipients of TARP capital to use such capital to make loans and it may not be possible to safely, soundly and profitably make sufficient loans to creditworthy persons in the current economy to satisfy such goals. Congressional demands for additional lending by TARP capital recipients, and regulatory demands for demonstrating and reporting such lending are increasing. On November 12, 2008, the bank regulatory agencies issued a statement encouraging banks to, among other things, “lend prudently and responsibly to creditworthy borrowers” and to “work with borrowers to preserve homeownership and avoid preventable foreclosures.” We continue to lend and to report our lending to the Treasury. The future demands for additional lending are unclear and uncertain, and we could be forced to make loans that involve risks or terms that we would not otherwise find acceptable or in our shareholders’ best interest. Such loans could adversely affect our results of operation and financial condition, and may be in conflict with bank regulations and requirements as to liquidity and capital. The profitability of funding such loans using deposits may be adversely affected by increased FDIC insurance premiums.

Higher FDIC deposit insurance premiums and assessments could adversely affect our financial condition.

FDIC insurance premiums have increased substantially in 2009 already and we expect to pay significantly higher FDIC premiums in the future. We were assessed a $121,000 special assessment by the FDIC in September 2009. Market developments have significantly depleted the insurance fund of the FDIC and reduced the ratio of reserves to insured deposits. The FDIC adopted a revised risk-based deposit insurance assessment schedule on February 27, 2009, which raised deposit insurance premiums. On May 22, 2009, the FDIC also implemented a five basis point special assessment of each insured depository institution’s assets minus Tier 1 capital as of June 30, 2009, but no more than 10 basis points times the institution’s assessment base for the second quarter of 2009, to be collected on September 30, 2009. Additional special assessments may be imposed by the FDIC for future periods. We participate in the FDIC’s Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, or TLG, for non-interest-bearing transaction deposit accounts. Banks that participate in the TLG’s non-interest-bearing transaction account guarantee will pay the FDIC an annual assessment of 10 basis points on the amounts in such accounts above the amounts covered by FDIC deposit insurance. To the extent that these TLG assessments are insufficient to cover any loss or expenses arising from the TLG program, the FDIC is authorized to impose an emergency special assessment on all FDIC-insured depository institutions. The FDIC has authority to impose charges for the TLG program upon depository institution holding companies, as well. The TLG is scheduled to end December 31, 2009, but the FDIC has proposed extending TLG to June 30, 2010, but charging a higher guarantee fee to banks that elect to participate in the extension. These changes, along with the full utilization of our FDIC insurance assessment credit in early 2009, will cause the premiums and TLG assessments charged by the FDIC to increase. These actions could significantly increase our non-interest expense in 2009 and for the foreseeable future.

 

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Changes in government regulations and legislation could limit our future performance and growth.

Changes in the laws, regulations and regulatory practices affecting the banking industry may increase our costs of doing business or otherwise adversely affect us and create competitive advantages for others. Regulations affecting banks and financial services companies undergo continuous change, and we cannot predict the ultimate effect of these changes, which could have a material adverse effect on our profitability or financial condition. Federal economic and monetary policies may also affect our ability to attract deposits and other funding sources, make loans and investments, and achieve satisfactory interest spreads.

Changes in future rules applicable to banks generally or to TARP recipients could adversely affect our operations, financial condition, and results of operations.

The rules and policies applicable to recipients of capital under the TARP continue to evolve and their scope, timing and effect cannot be predicted. We may elect not to use proceeds from this offering to redeem our Series A Preferred Stock issued to the Treasury under the TARP. Any redemption of the securities sold to the Treasury to avoid these restrictions would require prior Federal Reserve and Treasury approval. Based on recently issued Federal Reserve guidelines, institutions seeking to redeem TARP preferred stock must demonstrate an ability to access the long-term debt markets without reliance on the FDIC’s TLG, successfully demonstrate access to public equity markets and meet a number of additional requirements and considerations before we can redeem any securities sold to the Treasury. Therefore, it is uncertain if we will be able to redeem such securities even if we have sufficient financial resources to do so.

Changes in accounting standards may affect our performance.

Our accounting policies and methods are fundamental to how we record and report our financial condition and results of operations. From time to time, there are changes in the financial accounting and reporting standards that govern the preparation of our financial statements. These changes can be difficult to predict and can materially impact how we record and report our financial condition and statements of operations. For example, in April 2009 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) eased its mark-to-market reporting requirements that require banks to price assets to reflect current market prices each quarter. As a result, banks may now use “significant” judgment when assessing the value of the assets sitting on their balance sheets. Although the mark-to-market changes were beneficial, future changes in financial accounting and reporting standards (or a return to the prior mark-to-market requirements) could require us to apply a new or revised standard retroactively, which could result in a material adverse effect on our financial condition or could even require us to restate prior period financial statements.

We may not be able to successfully compete with our competitors for larger customers because our lending limits are lower than theirs.

Our lending limits are significantly lower than those of many of our competitors. Our legal secured lending limit is 25% of the Bank’s capital accounts. As September 30, 2009, our legal lending limit was approximately $5.3 million and it will increase proportionately to how much of the offering proceeds we down-stream to the Bank. Therefore, our lending limit will continue to be significantly less than the limits of most of our competitors and may affect our ability to develop relationships with larger businesses in our market area.

Hurricanes or other adverse weather events would negatively affect our local economies or disrupt our operations, which would have an adverse effect on our business or results of operations.

Our market areas in Florida are susceptible to hurricanes and tropical storms and related flooding and wind damage. Such weather events can disrupt operations, result in damage to properties and negatively affect the

 

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local economies in the markets where they operate. We cannot predict whether or to what extent damage that may be caused by future hurricanes will affect its operations or the economies in our current or future market areas, but such weather events could result in a decline in loan originations, a decline in the value or destruction of properties securing our loans and an increase in the delinquencies, foreclosures or loan losses. Our business or results of operations may be adversely affected by these and other negative effects of future hurricanes or tropical storms, including flooding and wind damage. Many of our customers have incurred significantly higher property and casualty insurance premiums on their properties located in our markets, which may adversely affect real estate sales and values in our markets.

We face risks related to our operational, technological and organizational infrastructure.

Our ability to grow and compete is dependent on our ability to build or acquire the necessary operational and technological infrastructure and to manage the cost of that infrastructure while we expand. Similar to other financial institutions, our operational risk can manifest itself in many ways, such as errors related to failed or inadequate processes, faulty or disabled computer systems, fraud by employees or outside persons and exposure to external events. We are dependent on our operational infrastructure to help manage these risks. In addition, we are heavily dependent on the strength and capability of our technology systems which we use both to interface with our customers and to manage our internal financial and other systems. Our ability to develop and deliver new products that meet the needs of our existing customers and attract new ones depends on the functionality of our technology systems. Additionally, our ability to run our business in compliance with applicable laws and regulations is dependent on these infrastructures.

We rely heavily on David W. Skiles and the rest of our management team, and the unexpected loss of any of those personnel could adversely affect our operations.

Our growth and development is particularly dependent upon the personal efforts and abilities of David W. Skiles, our Chief Executive Officer and President and the employment of additional personnel who aid in that activity. The loss or unavailability to FPB and the Bank of Mr. Skiles or our other members of senior management could have a materially adverse effect on our operations and prospects.

We depend on our ability to attract and retain key personnel.

The implementation of our business strategy also requires us to continue to attract, hire, motivate and retain skilled personnel to develop new customer relationships as well as new financial products and services. Many experienced banking professionals employed by our competitors are covered by agreements not to compete or solicit their existing customers if they were to leave their current employment. These agreements make the recruitment of these professionals more difficult. The market for these people is competitive, and we cannot assure you that we will be successful in attracting, hiring, motivating or retaining them.

Risks Related to the Offering

The minimum size of the offering is $5,000,004.

This offering is being made on a “best efforts” basis, which means there is no guarantee that we will be able to sell all or any of the securities offered. We can conduct a closing of the offering after raising $5,000,004 in gross proceeds. Although we expect this sum to be beneficial in meeting our capital needs, it would not be enough to address all of our immediate capital needs pursuant to the memorandum of understanding or in providing sufficient capital to continue to grow our asset size and take advantage of an economic recovery. In the event we are unable to raise sufficient capital from this offering, it is likely that we will be unable to continue to grow as planned, which may adversely affect future earnings. Regardless of the number of Units that we sell in this offering, we may need to obtain additional capital in the future so that we can successfully execute our business strategy.

 

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We have broad discretion to use the proceeds of this offering.

We expect to use the net proceeds from this offering for the down-streaming of capital to the Bank to maintain its capital ratios, reduce its classified assets and to support its future loan and deposit growth, and to also fund the dividend payments on our Series A Preferred Stock (subject to Federal Reserve approval), the broadening of business lines and to fund our operating expenses at the holding company level. We may also apply to the Federal Reserve to redeem our Series A Preferred Stock, depending on the amount of net proceeds we receive. Accordingly, we will have broad discretion as to the application of such proceeds. You will not have an opportunity to evaluate the economic, financial or other information on which we base our decisions on how to use these net proceeds. Our failure to use these funds effectively could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Investors may face dilution resulting from the issuance of stock in the future.

We may issue stock without shareholder approval, up to the number of authorized shares set forth in our Articles of Incorporation. Our Board of Directors may determine from time to time a need to obtain additional capital through the issuance of additional shares of stock or other securities convertible into stock. There can be no assurance that such shares may be issued at prices or on terms better than or equal to the terms obtained by our current shareholders or than those available upon exercise of the warrants. The issuance of any additional shares of stock by us in the future may result in a reduction of the book value or market price, if any, of the then-outstanding common stock. Issuance of additional shares of stock will reduce the proportionate ownership and voting power of our existing shareholders.

Shares of our preferred stock may be issued in the future which could materially adversely affect the rights of the holders of our common stock.

Our Board has the authority to issue additional series of preferred stock and to determine the designations, preferences, rights and qualifications or restrictions of those shares without any vote or action of the shareholders. The rights of the holders of our outstanding stock will be subject to, and may be materially adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of any preferred stock that may be issued by us in the future.

Our securities are not insured bank deposits and are subject to market risk.

Our securities are not deposits, savings accounts or other obligations of us, our subsidiaries or any other depository institution, are not guaranteed by us or any other entity, and are not insured by the FDIC or any other governmental agency.

We may need additional capital in the future and this capital may not be available when needed or at all.

We may need to obtain additional debt or equity financing in the near future to fund future growth and meet our capital needs. We cannot guarantee that such financing will be available to us on acceptable terms or at all. If we are unable to obtain future financing, we may not have the resources available to fund our planned growth.

Our executive officers and directors will continue to have substantial control over FPB after the offering which could delay or prevent a change of control favored by our other shareholders.

Our executive officers and directors, if acting together, would be able to significantly influence all matters requiring approval by our shareholders, including election of directors and the approval of mergers or other business combination transactions. Our executive officers and directors own or have the right to acquire approximately 21.4% of the total number of shares of common stock as of September 30, 2009, and may also subscribe to purchase additional shares in the offering.

 

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The interests of these directors and executive officers may differ from the interests of other shareholders, and these shareholders, acting together, would be able to influence significantly all matters requiring approval by shareholders. As a result, these shareholders could approve or cause us to take actions of which you disapprove or that may be contrary to your interests and those of other investors.

A vibrant public trading market for our securities has not and likely will not develop.

Our warrants are not listed or quoted on any stock exchange or market. Presently, our common stock is quoted on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “FPBI”. Trading in our common stock is very light. The absence of a more active, vibrant public market for our shares may make it difficult for you to resell your shares and is likely to depress the prices which you would receive from any sale of your shares. You may, therefore, be required to bear the economic risks of this investment for an indefinite period of time. We do not expect any market for our warrants to develop nor do we expect a more liquid market for our common stock to develop for several years, if at all. Accordingly, investors should consider an investment in our stock to be illiquid relative to securities of other companies with greater public floats and active trading markets.

Certain provisions of Florida and Federal law may discourage or prevent a takeover of FPB and result in a lower market price for our securities.

Florida and Federal law contain anti-takeover provisions that apply to us. These provisions could discourage potential buyers from seeking to acquire us in the future, even though certain shareholders may wish to participate in such a transaction. These provisions could also adversely affect the market price of our securities.

Because of our participation in the U.S. Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program, we are subject to several restrictions including restrictions on our ability to declare or pay dividends and repurchase our shares as well as restrictions on our executive compensation.

Because of our participation in the U.S. Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program, we are subject to several restrictions including restrictions on our ability to declare or pay dividends and repurchase our shares as well as restrictions on our executive compensation. Specifically, we are unable to declare dividend payments on common, junior preferred or pari passu preferred shares if we are in arrears on the dividends on the preferred stock issued in the Capital Purchase Program. In addition, our ability to repurchase our shares is restricted. U.S. Treasury consent generally is required for us to make any stock repurchase until the third anniversary of the investment by the U.S. Treasury unless all of the U.S. Treasury’s preferred stock has been redeemed or transferred. Further, common, junior preferred or pari passu preferred shares may not be repurchased if we are in arrears on the U.S. Treasury’s preferred stock dividends. In addition, we are bound by the U.S. Treasury’s restrictions on executive compensation for the period during which the U.S. Treasury holds our securities. These restrictions may make it difficult to attract and retain management.

We are a holding company, and we may not have access to the cash flow and other assets of our subsidiaries that may be needed to make dividend payments.

Although all of our business is conducted through the Bank, the Bank is not obligated to make funds available to us for payment of dividends. Accordingly, our ability to make any future dividend payments is dependent on the earnings and the distribution of funds from the Bank or from reserving offering proceeds. If the Bank can not pay us dividends, we may be unable to make the dividend payments in the future. Further, we are prohibited from paying any dividends, without Federal Reserve approval, pursuant to our Board resolutions and our ability to receive dividends from the Bank is subject to extensive government regulation.

 

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The exercise price of the warrants may be greater than the market price of our common stock on the mandatory conversion date.

The market price of FPB common stock fluctuates based on numerous factors, many of which are not necessarily related to our financial performance. Due to these fluctuations, the market price of our common stock may be greater than the exercise price of the warrants on December 17, 2014, the latest date on which the warrants may be exercised.

If you are able to resell your securities, many other factors may affect the price you receive, which may be lower than you believe to be appropriate.

If you are able to resell your securities, the price you receive will depend on many other factors that may vary over time, including: (i) the number of potential buyers; (ii) the level of liquidity of the securities; (iii) our financial performance; (iv) the amount of indebtedness we have outstanding; (v) the level, direction and volatility of market interest rates generally; (vi) the market for similar securities; (vii) the market price of our common stock; and (viii) the terms of the securities. As a result of these factors, you may only be able to sell your securities at prices below those you believe to be appropriate, including prices below the price you paid for them.

The offering and exercise prices are not necessarily an indication of the value of our shares.

The offering price of the Units and the exercise price of the warrants do not necessarily bear any relationship to the book value of our assets, past operations, cash flows, losses, financial condition or any other established criteria for value. Our Board of Directors determined the offering and exercise prices after consulting with our Placement Agent and considering our historic and expected growth, the prior public sale of our shares and general market conditions, among other factors. Nevertheless, the offering and exercise prices may exceed the fair market value of our shares and the price at which shares may be sold after the offering. Consequently, you may lose a portion of your investment simply as a result of an inaccurately determined offering or exercise price.

We may not maintain an effective registration statement for the issuance of shares of common stock upon the exercise of the warrants.

We will use our best efforts to maintain, throughout the term of the warrants, an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 covering the shares of common stock underlying the warrants. However, we may be unable to do so, either as a result of our obligations under the securities laws or otherwise. A warrant holder will not be entitled to exercise warrants unless such registration statement covering the underlying common stock is effective on the date of exercise. Accordingly, if such registration statement is not effective on the date a holder wishes to exercise, the warrant holder will not be entitled to exercise the warrants at such time, which may result in losses to the holder if the market price of the underlying shares decreases thereafter, and if a registration statement covering the shares of common stock underlying the warrants does not become effective prior to the expiration of the warrants, the warrants will expire unexercised on their expiration date. Under no circumstances will a warrant holder be entitled to (a) net-cash settlement of a warrant or the underlying shares of common stock, regardless of whether any or all of the warrants or underlying shares have been registered by us pursuant to an effective registration statement or an exemption from registration is available, or (b) receive any damages if any or all of the warrants or underlying shares have not been registered by us pursuant to an effective registration statement.

 

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CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth FPB’s capitalization as of September 30, 2009, and as adjusted to give effect to the proceeds from the assumed sale of 833,334 Units (the minimum offering size) and 4,166,500 Units (the maximum offering size), after deducting maximum Placement Agent commissions of $300,000 and $1,499,940, respectively, and $300,000 in estimated offering expenses. This table assumes that none of our outstanding warrants or options, nor any of the warrants issued in this offering, have been exercised. (dollars in thousands)

 

     At September 30,
2009
    As Adjusted
for the Sale of
833,334 Units
    As Adjusted for
Sale of
4,166,500 Units
 

Common stock, $0.01 par value, 25,000,000 shares authorized, 2,058,047 shares outstanding at September 30, 2009 and 5,391,383 and 18,724,047 shares outstanding at the completion of the offering(1)

   $ 20      $ 54      $ 187   

Series A Preferred Stock; $0.01 par value, 2,000,000 shares authorized, 5,800 shares outstanding at September 30, 2009 and at the completion of the offering

     5,800        5,800        5,800   

Series A preferred stock discount

     (452     (452     (452

Additional paid-in capital

     24,432        28,798        47,464   

Accumulated deficit

     (8,704     (8,704     (8,704

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     2        2        2   
                        

Total stockholders’ equity

   $ 21,098      $ 25,498      $ 44,297   
                        

Bank Capital Ratios:

      

Total risk-based capital ratio(2)

     9.40     11.50     20.31

Tier 1 leverage ratio

     6.26     7.78     13.80

Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio(2)

     8.14     10.24     19.08

Total equity to total assets

     7.69     9.19     15.07

 

(1) No effect has been given to the issuance of additional shares of common stock pursuant to outstanding warrants or options. As of September 30, 2009, there were outstanding warrants to purchase 183,158 shares of our common stock and options to purchase 154,091 shares of common stock.

 

(2) Assumes net proceeds invested in Fed Funds.

OUR BUSINESS

Our Market Areas

We are the only financial institution headquartered in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Our geographic market area encompasses Martin County, St. Lucie County, and Indian River County, Florida. St. Lucie, Martin and Indian River Counties have a total combined year-round adult population of approximately 564,670. From 2000 to 2008, the population of St. Lucie County grew at a compound annual rate of 4.7%, while Martin County grew by 1.6% and Indian River County by 2.9%. In 2007, the U.S. Department of Commerce recognized St. Lucie County as having one of the fastest growing populations of all U.S. Counties.

St. Lucie West is home to the spring training facility for the New York Mets, the St. Lucie Mets and the PGA training center, one of the better golf training centers in the U.S.

Port St. Lucie is home to one of two family-oriented Club Med’s in the U.S. Major employers include St. Lucie County Medical Center, Liberty Medical, Indian River State College, Walmart, Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, QVC and Publix Supermarkets.

 

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The newest major development in St. Lucie County is the Town of Tradition, which is a master-planned, mixed-use community. The Florida Center for Innovation at Tradition is a 120-acre research park under development, anchored by the $40 million East Coast headquarters for Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies. The 108,000 square foot Torrey Pines Facility is just the beginning of a much larger group of biotechnology companies planning to move into the 150 acre Florida Center for Innovation at Tradition. There is much hope that the biotech industry coming to Port St. Lucie will influence positive change in the economic structure of the city and the immediate surrounding area. In addition, the Oregon Health & Science University’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute will be expanding into a 130,000 square-foot facility, and the Mann Research Center, a six-building, 400,000 square foot life sciences complex adjacent to both facilities is planned, along with a new medical campus for Martin Memorial Health Systems. This local expansion is estimated to bring hundreds of new job opportunities to the St. Lucie County area. Our sixth branch office, which opened in May of 2008, is located on Gatlin Boulevard, just outside of the Tradition development.

In Martin County, some of the major employers include Martin Memorial Health Systems, Martin County School District, Publix Supermarkets, Home Depot and Armellini Express Lines. In Indian River County, some of the major employers include Indian River Medical Center, Piper Aircraft, Inc., John’s Island, Sebastian River Medical Center and Visiting Nurse Association.

As of June 30, 2008, the 205 commercial bank and thrift branch offices operating within Martin County, St. Lucie County, and Indian River County, Florida maintained aggregate deposits of approximately $11.5 billion, representing a 27.12% increase over June 30, 2004 levels. Of the total deposits as of June 30, 2008, an estimated 61.59%, or $7.1 billion, of commercial bank and thrift deposits were held at offices of large, out-of-state institutions.

Lending Activities

Our primary source of income is generated from the interest earned on our loan portfolio and fees generated from our lending activities. We primarily focus our lending activities on commercial real estate lending to small and medium-sized businesses, including professionals such as physicians, law firms and accountants. Our commercial mortgage loans include loans for the acquisition/development, construction or rehabilitation of commercial, multi-family or residential real property.

We also emphasize commercial loans secured by assets other than real estate. Our target commercial loan market includes companies in the medical services, retail construction, wholesale, manufacturing and tourism industries. We also offer residential mortgage loans, as well as consumer loans, such as home equity lines of credit. Our goal is to develop commercial lending opportunities where the loan relationships provide us with opportunities to develop depository relationships and other non-commercial loan relationships.

We offer Small Business Administration, or SBA, 7(a) and 504 loans to small businesses throughout our market area. SBA loans are a complement to our focus on strengthening and supporting local communities. We are also participating in the America’s Recovery Capital program (ARC), which is scheduled to cease operation by September 2010, or sooner if all allocation funds are utilized. SBA loans are generally made pursuant to a federal government program designed to assist small businesses in obtaining financing. The federal government guarantees 75% to 90% of the SBA loan balances as an incentive for financial institutions to make loans to small businesses. We generally sell the guaranteed portion of the SBA loan at a premium sale price between approximately 5% and 9%. We had $15.5 million of outstanding SBA loans at September 30, 2009.

 

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Loan Portfolio

The following tables summarize our loan portfolio by type of loan and type of customer as of the dates indicated (dollars in thousands):

 

     As of September 30,     As of December 31,  
     2009     2008     2007     2006  
     Amount     % of
Total
    Amount     % of
Total
    Amount     % of
Total
    Amount     % of
Total
 

Commercial real estate

   $ 108,549      56.25   $ 94,675      50.54   $ 82,951      47.31   $ 55,967      42.24

Commercial & Industrial

   $ 64,774      33.57   $ 63,768      34.04   $ 59,878      34.15   $ 50,521      38.13

Residential real estate

   $ 382      0.20   $ 324      0.17   $ 48      0.03   $ 315      0.24

Consumer

   $ 18,263      9.47   $ 18,762      10.02   $ 21,279      12.13   $ 19,618      14.80

Construction & Development

   $ 986      0.51   $ 9,793      5.23   $ 11,186      6.38   $ 6,089      4.59
                                                        

Total loans

   $ 192,954      100   $ 187,322      100   $ 175,342      100   $ 132,510      100
                                                        

Allowance for loan losses

     (4,504       (2,552       (2,393       (1,801  

Deferred loan costs, net

     (640       (588       (698       (576  
                                        

Loans, net

   $ 187,810        $ 184,182        $ 172,251        $ 130,133     
                                        

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The contractual maturity ranges of our loan portfolio and the amount of such loans with fixed and variable interest rates in each maturity range classified by borrower type as of September 30, 2009 (dollars in thousands):

 

     One Year
or Less
   After One
Through
Five Years
   After
Five Years
   Total

Commercial & Industrial

   $ 15,499    $ 13,272    $ 36,003    $ 64,774

Commercial real estate

     5,125      11,173      92,251      108,549

Construction & Development

     —        —        986      986

Consumer

     2,397      12,443      3,423      18,263

Residential real estate

     195      187      —        382
                           

Total loans

   $ 23,216    $ 37,075    $ 132,663    $ 192,954
                           

Loans with a fixed interest rate

   $ 21,624    $ 29,165    $ 15,562    $ 66,351

Loans with a variable interest rate

     1,592      7,910      117,101      126,603
                           

Total loans

   $ 23,216    $ 37,075    $ 132,663    $ 192,954
                           

As of September 30, 2009, our loan portfolio was composed of approximately 34% fixed interest rate loans and 66% variable interest rate loans. Scheduled contractual principal repayments do not reflect the actual maturities of loan. The average actual maturity of our loans is substantially less than their average contractual term because of prepayments. The average life of mortgage loans tends to increase when the current mortgage loan rates are substantially higher than rates on existing mortgage loans and, conversely, decrease when current mortgage loans rates are substantially lower than rates on existing mortgages due primarily to refinancing of adjustable rate and fixed rate loans at lower rates.

Asset Quality

The increase in nonperforming assets in the first nine months of 2009 was due primarily to the continued decline in the economy, resulting in continued deterioration in the real estate secured sector of our loan portfolio.

As of September 30, 2009, other real estate was comprised of commercial real estate property (9.40%), 1-4 residential property (47.72%), vacant land (7.11%), multi-family residential property (13.67%) and other (22.10%).

We have endeavored to deal aggressively with problem assets in our loan portfolio. Since the Bank’s inception in 1999, we have engaged a third-party audit firm to conduct independent asset quality reviews that are specialized and targeted loan reviews by type. We believe our enhanced credit risk management process positions us to deal effectively with reducing our credit risk profile and maintaining a high quality loan portfolio on an ongoing basis. Additionally, in the future we intend to develop a more balanced real estate portfolio by reducing our concentration of higher risk non-owner occupied commercial real estate and construction and development loans.

Furthermore, since December 31, 2008, we have enhanced our credit risk management processes by:

 

   

forming a real estate holding company to manage and liquidate foreclosed assets;

 

   

developing processes for supervising criticized and classified loans;

 

   

adopting a specific action plan for managing and disposing OREO;

 

   

performing a quarterly assessment of the Bank’s monitoring systems for timely identification of problem loans;

 

   

forming a Special Assets Committee of the Board that meets monthly to review management’s progress on all classified assets; and

 

   

creating a Special Assets Department to reduce the Bank’s underperforming credits.

 

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We believe our enhanced credit risk management process positions us to deal effectively with reducing our credit risk profile.

The following table reflects the levels of non-accrual and past-due loans in our loan portfolio as of the dates indicated (dollars in thousands):

 

     September 30,
2009
    December 31,  
       2008     2007     2006  

Non-Accrual Loans

        

Commercial Real Estate

   $ 8,038      $ 6,627      $ 805      $ —     

Commercial & Industrial

     6,410        1,635        297        154   

Construction and Land development

     402        1,106        —          —     

Residential

     —          179        272        172   

Home Equity Lines

     400        446        —          —     

Other

     435        112        27        18   
                                

Total

   $ 15,685      $ 10,105      $ 1,401      $ 344   
                                

Accruing 90 or more days past due

        

Commercial Real Estate

   $ 1,697      $ —        $ 243      $ —     

Commercial & Industrial

     20        250        106        —     

Construction and Land development

     —          —          —          —     

Residential

     —          —          —          —     

Home Equity Lines

     —          —          —          —     

Other

     —          —          —          —     
                                

Total

   $ 1,717      $ 250      $ 349      $ —     
                                

Total non-performing loans

   $ 17,402      $ 10,355      $ 1,750      $ 344   

Foreclosed real estate

     7,037        1,714        —          —     

Total non-performing assets

   $ 24,439      $ 12,069      $ 1,750      $ 344   

Restructured Loans

     6,578        12,279        —          —     
                                

Total non-performing assets & restructured loans

   $ 31,017      $ 24,348      $ 1,750      $ 344   
                                

Ratios

        

Total non-performing loans to total loans

     9.02     5.53     1.00     0.26

Total non-performing assets to total assets

     9.14     5.05     0.89     0.22

Total non-performing assets & restructured loans to total assets

     11.60     10.18     0.89     0.22

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The following table illustrates the payment status of certain classes of loans in our portfolio (dollars in thousands):

 

     Accruing and Past
Due 30-89 Days
Amount
   Non-Accrual
and Past Due
90 days
and Over
Amount
   Total
Amount

As of September 30, 2009

        

Commercial Real Estate

   $ 3,042    $ 9,735    $ 12,777

Commercial & Industrial

     680      6,430      7,110

Construction and Land development

     —        402      402

Residential

     109      —        109

Home Equity Lines

     89      400      489

Other

     176      435      611
                    

Total

   $ 4,096    $ 17,402    $ 21,498
                    

As of December 31, 2008

        

Commercial Real Estate

   $ 3,781    $ 6,645    $ 10,426

Commercial & Industrial

     2,010      1,932      3,942

Construction and Land development

     —        1,106      1,106

Residential

     211      179      390

Home Equity Lines

     199      446      645

Other

     157      47      204
                    

Total

   $ 6,358    $ 10,355    $ 16,713
                    

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The following table reflects the activity in our allowance for loan losses during the nine-month period ended September 30, 2009 and the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006 (dollars in thousands):

 

     Nine Months
Ended
September 30,
2009
    Year Ended December 31,  
       2008     2007     2006  

Total loans outstanding at end of period

   $ 192,954      $ 187,322      $ 175,342      $ 132,510   
                                

Allowance for loan losses at beginning of period

   $ 2,552      $ 2,393      $ 1,801      $ 1,383   

Charge-offs:

        

Commercial Real Estate

   $ (45   $ (986   $ —        $ —     

Commercial & Industrial

     (528     (548     (128     (11

Construction and Land development

     (596     (1,360     —          —     

Residential

     (736     (667     (123     —     

Home Equity Lines

     —          —          —          —     

Other

     (125     (362     (49     (22
                                

Total charge-offs

   $ (2,030   $ (3,923   $ (300   $ (33

Recoveries:

        

Commercial Real Estate

   $ —        $ —        $ —        $ —     

Commercial & Industrial

     27        6        1        12   

Construction and Land development

     —          —          —          —     

Residential

     13        12        —          —     

Home Equity Lines

     —          —          —          —     

Other

     29        5        6        10   
                                

Total recoveries

     69        23        7        22   
                                

Net charge-offs

     (1,961     (3,900     (293     (11
                                

Provision for loan losses

     3,913        4,059        885        429   

Allowance for loan losses at end of period

   $ 4,504      $ 2,552      $ 2,393      $ 1,801   
                                

Ratio of net charge-offs to average loans outstanding

     1.04     2.11        0.19     0.01

Ratio of allowance for loan losses to period end loans

     2.33     1.36     1.36     1.36

Ratio of allowance for loan losses to non-performing assets

     18.43     21.15     136.74     523.55

Ratio of allowance for loan losses to total assets

     1.68     1.07     1.22     1.17

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Commercial Real Estate

Our commercial real estate loan portfolio consists mainly of loans secured by office buildings, retail centers, warehouses, farm land, and other commercial properties. As of September 30, 2009, our commercial real estate loans totaled $108.5 million.

The following table summarizes our commercial real estate and farm loans as of September 30, 2009 (dollars in thousands):

 

     Percentage     Number    Dollars

Total Commercial Real Estate Loans

     187    $ 108,549

Past Due:

       

30 Days or greater

   1.79   4    $ 1,943

60 Days or greater

   1.01   2      1,099

90 Days or greater (still accruing)

   1.56   3      1,697

Non-Accrual

   7.41   15      8,038
                 

Total

   11.77   24    $ 12,777
                 

Interest Rate:

       

Fixed

   22.97   47    $ 24,930

Variable

   77.03   140      83,619
                 

Total

   100.00   187    $ 108,549
                 

Weighted Average Interest Rate

   6.80     

Fixed

   6.01     

Variable

   7.04     

Commercial and Industrial Loans

Our commercial and industrial loan portfolio consists mainly of loans for lines of credit and the acquisition of inventory, vehicles and equipment, as well as for other business purposes.

We believe that our commercial and industrial loan portfolio is well positioned. As of September 30, 2009, our commercial and industrial loans totaled $64.8 million.

The following table summarizes our commercial and industrial loans as of September 30, 2009 (dollars in thousands):

 

     Percentage     Number    Dollars

Total Commercial and Industrial Loans

     405    $ 64,774

Past Due:

       

30 Days or greater

   .89   4    $ 577

60 Days or greater

   .16   3      103

90 Days or greater (still accruing)

   .03   1      20

Non-Accrual

   9.90   29      6,410
                 

Total

   10.98   37    $ 7,110
                 

Interest Rate:

       

Fixed

   42.67   254    $ 27,641

Variable

   57.33   151      37,133
                 
   100.00   405    $ 64,774
                 

Weighted Average Interest Rate

   5.78     

Fixed

   4.16     

Variable

   7.04     

 

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Construction and Development Loans

Our construction and development loan portfolio includes residential and non-residential construction and development loans. Our residential portfolio consists mainly of loans for the construction, development, and improvement of residential lots, homes, and subdivisions. Our non-residential portfolio consists mainly of loans for the construction and development of office buildings, hotels, retail centers and other non-residential commercial properties.

We have identified construction and development loans as having a greater level of risk than other types of loans. As of September 30, 2009, these higher-risk loans totaled $986,000. We have reduced our exposure to this type of loan by $12.2 million since December 31, 2008, and continue to work to further reduce such exposure.

As of September 30, 2009, the Bank had no construction and development loans that were past-due 30-89 days and $402,000 on nonaccrual status.

Consumer Loans

Our consumer loan portfolio consists mainly of loans to individuals for the purchase of vehicles, equipment, and other goods and services, as well as consumer real estate, home equity lines of credit and overdrafts. As of September 30, 2009, our consumer portfolio totaled approximately $18.3 million. The following table reflects our consumer loans as of September 30, 2009 (dollars in thousands):

 

      Percentage     Number    Dollars

Total

     847    $ 18,263

Past Due:

       

30 Days or greater

   1.05   11    $ 192

60 Days or greater

   .40   11      73

90 Days or greater

   —        —        —  

Non-Accrual

   4.57   16      835
                 

Total

   6.02   38    $ 1,100
                 

Interest Rate:

       

Fixed

   73.36   767    $ 13,397

Variable

   26.64   80      4,866
                 
   100.00   847    $ 18,263
                 

Weighted Average Interest Rate

   6.17     

Fixed

   7.07     

Variable

   3.70     
       

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Investment Securities

The following table sets forth the carrying value of our securities portfolio at September 30, 2009 (dollars in thousands):

 

     At September 30,
2009
   At December 31,
        2008    2007    2006

Securities available for sale:

           

U.S. Government agency securities

   $ 16,077    $ 16,375    $ 6,061    $ 5,445

Mortgage-backed securities

     18,185      16,863      728      999
                           

Total securities available for sale

   $ 34,262    $ 33,238    $ 6,789    $ 6,444
                           

Securities held to maturity:

        

U.S. Government agency securities

   $ —      $ —      $ —      $ 2,500

Mortgage-backed securities

     —        1      4      9
                           

Total securities held to maturity

   $ —      $ 1    $ 4    $ 2,509
                           

Total

   $ 34,262    $ 33,239    $ 6,793    $ 8,953
                           

Deposits

The amounts of each of the following categories of deposits, as of the dates indicated, are as follows (dollars in thousands):

 

     As of September 30,
2009
   As of December 31,
        2008    2007    2006

Non-interest-bearing demand deposits

   $ 20,965    $ 19,492    $ 23,141    $ 20,125

Interest-bearing demand deposits, and savings deposits

     70,908      39,458      33,357      35,486

Time deposits

     141,665      141,733      116,179      74,608
                           

Total deposits

   $ 233,538    $ 200,683    $ 172,677    $ 130,219
                           

The following table sets forth the maturities and rates of our time deposits of $100,000 or more by category as of the date indicated (dollars in thousands):

 

     As of September 30,  
     2009    Average
Rate
 

Three months or less

   $ 13,142    3.57

Over three months through one year

     22,164    2.99

One year through three years

     13,122    4.15

Over three years

     1,856    3.57
             

Total

   $ 50,284    3.46
             

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Other Borrowings

The following table illustrates the types, available amounts and outstanding balances of our sources of other borrowings (dollars in thousands) as of September 30, 2009. All borrowings require adequate collateral, such as unpledged investment securities or loans.

 

Type of Borrowing

   Outstanding    Line
Amount
   Available

Fed Funds Purchased

   $ —      $ —      $ —  

Repurchase Agreements

     —        —        2,153

FHLB Advances

     10,600      26,210      15,610

FRB Discount Window

     —        22,344      22,344
                    
   $ 10,600    $ 48,554    $ 40,107
                    

MANAGEMENT AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FPB’s Board of Directors is divided into three classes. Each director is elected for a three year term and one class is elected each year. The following persons currently serve on FPB and the Bank’s Boards of Directors. The names and ages of the directors, a brief description of their principal occupation and business experience, and certain other information are set forth below.

Class I Directors — Terms Expiring In 2012

Donald J. Cuozzo, age 56, is a director of FPB and the Bank. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Technology from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1979. He began his work career in the public sector with the Martin County Growth Management Department before leaving to work with regional and national developers. In 1993, he co-founded Houston Cuozzo Group to provide planning, design and government-oriented strategic planning service for private and public sector clients in South Florida. Mr. Cuozzo has more than 30 years of experience planning and implementing numerous land developments throughout the region and has worked in nearly all facets of community and project development. Mr. Cuozzo is a founding member of the Martin County Business Development Board, a graduate of the first class of Martin County Leadership 91/92, a recipient of the 1991 Industry Appreciation Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Community, and a 2006 recipient of the Industry Appreciation Award for Martin County. He is a past Second Vice President of the Treasure Coast Builders Association. Mr. Cuozzo was appointed to the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council by Governor Jeb Bush and served for four years in that position. Mr. Cuozzo has been appointed to the Century Commission for Sustainable Florida by Senate President Ken Pruitt and was recently appointed to the Florida Inland Navigation District (F.I.N.D.) by Governor Charlie Christ.

Timothy K. Grimes, age 42, is a director of FPB and the Bank. He was born and raised in St. Lucie County, Florida, attended local schools and graduated from Westwood High School in 1985. He attended Indian River State College before starting in his family’s air conditioning business, Grimes Air Conditioning. For 15 years, he has been president of the company. Mr. Grimes is a past board member for the St. Lucie County United Way, Fort Pierce Manatee Center and other charity organizations. Mr. Grimes has been a member of Fort Pierce Rotary Club for 15 years and served as their president from 1999-2000. He chaired the 2007 Habitat for Humanity Rotary Club Home in Fort Pierce. Mr. Grimes is also co-owner of Southeast Sanitation and Indian Run Development.

John S. Leighton, III, age 42, is a director of FPB and the Bank. He was educated at Florida Atlantic University’s College of Business, where he received a Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration in 1990 and shortly thereafter joined WTS, Inc., a nuclear contracting, real estate development and engineering support services firm. After serving as Operations Manager for several years, Mr. Leighton formed Leighton

 

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Construction to partner with and expand WTS’s real estate development and construction administration activities. Under Mr. Leighton’s direction, WTS and Leighton Construction have developed and built numerous residential and commercial real estate projects in Martin, St. Lucie and Seminole Counties. Mr. Leighton has been involved in a broad spectrum of community affairs and has been active on a number of community boards. He has served as Interim Director and is a part President of the Business Development Board of Martin County, Inc., a public/private partnership promoting economic development on the “Research Coast”, where he has served since 2002. He has also served as a past director of the Palm City Chamber of Commerce. In 2001, Mr. Leighton was appointed by the Martin County Board of County Commissioners to serve as a founding board member of the Community Redevelopment Agency for Palm City, where he served for four years. He was also appointed in 1998 by the City of Stuart Commission to serve on the board of their Local Planning Agency (LPA). He currently serves on the Executive Committee and the President’s Council of the Business Development Board of Martin County, Inc., and is a board member of the Martin County Local Planning Agency (LPA).

Paul A. Zinter, age 54, is Vice Chairman and a director of FPB and the Bank. He has been a resident of Port St. Lucie for 40 years, and was a member of the second graduating class from Fort Pierce Central High School. Mr. Zinter received a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from Eastern New Mexico University in 1975, where he majored in real estate and marketing and was managing partner of a family-owned real estate company. Mr. Zinter was past president and honorary member of the Rotary Club of Port St. Lucie and was a local realtor/managing partner and business owner for 29 years.

Class II Directors — Terms Expiring In 2010

Ann L. Decker, age 58, is a director and Secretary of FPB and the Bank. Ms. Decker serves as the Executive Director of the Indian River State College Foundation, Inc., in Fort Pierce, Florida. For over 30 years, Ms. Decker served as the District Manager for three different U.S. Congressmen that represented this area. Ms. Decker was formerly a co-owner of Intracoastal Printing, Inc., which was sold in 1990. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ms. Decker has a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional Business Management from Barry University in Miami, Florida, and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Nova Southeastern University.

Paul J. Miret, age 63, is a director of FPB and the Bank. Mr. Miret was previously a realtor with RE/MAX 100 Riverside. Prior to that, he was the owner and operator of Sunshine Carpet Cleaning from 1978 to 1998 and of Ameri-Kleen Services from 1992 to 1998. He also owns and manages several residential rental units. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Miret served on the Community Board of Riverside National Bank. Mr. Miret is also a past President of the Port St. Lucie Little League and the Port St. Lucie Exchange Club and a past director of the Port St. Lucie Chamber of Commerce.

Robert L. Seeley, age 84, is a director of FPB and the Bank. Mr. Seeley has been in private law practice in Florida for more than 40 years. Mr. Seeley was co-founder of the Stuart law firm of Fox, Wackeen, Dungey, Beard, Sobel and McCluskey, LLP, for which he currently serves “Of Counsel.” From 1973 to 1996, Mr. Seeley served as a director of Barnett Bank of the Treasure Coast (acquired by Nations Bank, now Bank of America). He also served as the founding director and Chairman of the Saint Lucie Medical Center and a former director of the St. Lucie and Martin County Economic Development Councils. Mr. Seeley completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois and received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Florida.

Class III Directors — Terms Expiring In 2011

Gary A. Berger, age 59, is a director and Chairman of the Board for both FPB and the Bank. Mr. Berger is President of the accounting firm of Berger, Toombs, Elam, Gaines, and Frank, CPA. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and has been a certified public accountant since 1975. Mr. Berger is a member of the Rotary Club of Ft. Pierce, the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a past Treasurer of the United Way, past President of the St. Lucie County Economic Development Council and past President of the Rotary Club of Ft. Pierce, Florida.

 

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Robert L. Schweiger, age 62, is a director of FPB and the Bank. He has been a resident of the Treasure Coast since 1974 and currently resides in Palm City. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Schweiger served as an Advisory Board member – first with Port St. Lucie National Bank and then with First National Bank. He previously served as founder/President of the Treasure Coast Children’s Home Society, Treasurer of the St. Lucie Boys & Girls Clubs, and Finance Chairman of CASTLE. He studied for his BA degree at Colorado State University and American University of Beirut and for his MBA degree at Florida Atlantic University. Currently, Mr. Schweiger is a private financial investor.

David W. Skiles, age 62, is President and CEO and director of both FPB and the Bank. Prior to joining First Peoples Bank, he was the Martin County Area Executive at 1st United / Wachovia Bank and also was the Senior Vice President and Senior Lending Officer for Port St. Lucie National Bank. Mr. Skiles has a Bachelor of Science degree from Barry University, Miami Florida and an Associate in Applied Science degree from Sinclair College in Dayton Ohio. He is Chair-Elect for the (EDC) Economic Development Council of St. Lucie County. He also serves on the Executive and Board of Directors of that organization. Mr. Skiles serves on the (ICBA) Independent Community Bankers of America’s Lending Committee and the (FBA) Florida Bankers Association Board of Directors and (GRC) Government Relations Committee as well as the Bank Pack Board. He is a member of the (FAU) Florida Atlantic University’s advisory board and board member for Workforce Solutions of the Treasure Coast. He was recently appointed to serve as a member of the St. Lucie County (TAC), Technical Advisory Committee for the (SLC), Airport. He is past President and a current Trustee of the St. Lucie County Chamber of Commerce and past President of the Education Foundation of St. Lucie County. He is active in United Way, having served as campaign chairman in Martin County and on numerous campaigns for the United Way of St. Lucie County. Mr. Skiles is past chairman of the St. Lucie County Chambers Area Council and St. Lucie County (BAP), Business Alliance for Prosperity.

In addition, FPB has three executive officers who do not serve on the Board of Directors.

Nancy E. Aumack, age 60, is FPB and the Bank’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Bank in 2001, she was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Independent Community Bank, Tequesta, Florida. In the period from 1997 to 1999, she served as Chief Financial Officer and Administrative Support Director for the engineering firm LBFH, Palm City, Florida. From 1995 to 1997, she served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Treasure Coast Bank, Stuart, Florida, and from 1983 to 1995, she served as Vice President and Financial Accounting Officer for American Bank of Martin County in Stuart, Florida. Ms. Aumack received her A.S. degree in Banking and Financial Services from Indian River State College in 1989. She is a past Chairman of the ARC of Martin County, and is currently Financial Partner for the Port St. Lucie Women on Wall Street, and a member of the Port St. Lucie Business Women.

Marge Riley, age 60, is FPB and the Bank’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. She also serves as the Bank’s Security Officer, and Information Systems Technology Officer. Ms. Riley joined the Bank while it was In Organization in 1998. Ms. Riley began her banking career in 1985 at M & I Western State Bank in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. After moving to Florida in 1987, she worked as Loan Review Specialist for Barnett Bank, Assistant Vice President, Loan Administration at Port St. Lucie National Bank, and Assistant Vice President, Branch Manager for First National Bank. She has A.S. Degrees in Accounting and Banking and Financial Services from Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wisconsin. Ms. Riley is presently a board member for United Way of St. Lucie County, a member and past president of the Port St. Lucie Business Women, and a member of the Port St. Lucie Women on Wall Street.

William V. West, Jr., age 42, is FPB and the Bank’s Senior Vice President and Senior Lending Officer. Prior to joining the Bank in 2004 he was Vice President of Commercial Lending for Southern Community Bank of Southwest Florida, Naples, Florida. From 1999 to 2001, he served as Assistant Vice President and Commercial Lender for SouthTrust Bank in Naples. In 2001, he completed his Master of Business Administration in Finance, Summa Cum Laude, with International College. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Management with Warner Southern College in 1996, and graduated from the Graduate School of

 

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Banking at Colorado in 2006. In 2008, he completed his Bank Operations Diploma with the American Institute of Banking. Mr. West is a fifth generation Floridian who is very active in our community. Mr. West is the President of the Treasured Lands Foundation, Incoming President of the Business Development Board of Martin County, Treasurer of the Industrial Development Authority of Martin County, Past-President of the Education Foundation of Martin County and Past-President of the Jensen Beach Chamber of Commerce. Mr. West was honored this year with a Business Recognition Award from the Florida Commissioner of Education. In 2005, the Florida Economic Development Council awarded him the McLaughlin Award for his contributions to economic development in Florida.

PRICE RANGE OF OUR COMMON STOCK

As of November 20, 2009, we had approximately 1,400 shareholders. On July 21, 2005, FPB became listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “FPBI.” Prior to that, there was no public market for the stock. The table below shows the high, low and closing bid prices on the Nasdaq Capital Market for the periods indicated. These over-the-counter market quotations reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail mark-up, markdown, or commission and may not necessarily reflect actual transactions.

 

Calendar Quarter Ended

   High    Low    Closing

March 30, 2007

   $ 18.00    $ 16.30    $ 17.00

June 30, 2007

   $ 17.50    $ 14.87    $ 15.75

September 30, 2007

   $ 15.89    $ 12.70    $ 13.40

December 31, 2007

   $ 13.35    $ 9.71    $ 9.80

March 31, 2008

   $ 11.00    $ 8.05    $ 8.66

June 30, 2008

   $ 9.74    $ 7.21    $ 7.21

September 30, 2008

   $ 7.50    $ 3.92    $ 5.02

December 31, 2008

   $ 5.95    $ 1.92    $ 1.99

March 30, 2009

   $ 4.75    $ 1.68    $ 2.50

June 30, 2009

   $ 2.70    $ 2.00    $ 2.50

September 30, 2009

   $ 4.25    $ 2.50    $ 3.10

On June 15, 2007, FPB paid a 5% stock dividend on our common stock. No dividends were paid in 2008 or in 2009. Our Series B Shares are not listed on any exchange or other market and we do not anticipate that they will become listed following this offering.

 

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SUPERVISION AND REGULATION

General

As a one-bank holding company, we are subject to an extensive body of state and federal banking laws and regulations which impose specific requirements and restrictions on virtually all aspects of our operations. We are affected by government monetary policy and by regulatory measures affecting the banking industry in general.

The following is a brief summary of some of the statutes, rules and regulations which affect our operations. This summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the particular statutory and regulatory provisions referred to below and is not intended to be an exhaustive description of the statutes or regulations applicable to our business. Any change in applicable laws or regulations may have a material adverse effect on our business.

FPB Bancorp, Inc.

We are a bank holding company within the meaning of the BHCA of 1956, as amended (the “BHCA”). As such, we are required to file annual reports and other information with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) regarding our business operations and those of our subsidiary. We are also subject to the supervision of, and to periodic inspections by, the Federal Reserve.

The BHCA generally requires every bank holding company to obtain the prior approval of the Federal Reserve before:

 

   

Acquiring all or substantially all of the assets of a bank;

 

   

Acquiring direct or indirect ownership or control of 5% or more of the voting shares of any bank or bank holding company; or

 

   

Merging or consolidating with another bank holding company.

The BHCA and the Change in Bank Control Act, together with regulations promulgated by the Federal Reserve, require that, depending on the particular circumstances, either the Federal Reserve’s approval must be obtained or notice must be furnished to the Federal Reserve and not disapproved prior to any person or company, not a bank holding company, acquiring control of a bank holding company, subject to certain exemptions. Control is conclusively presumed to exist when an individual or company acquires 25% or more of any class of voting securities of a bank holding company. Control is rebuttably presumed to exist if a person acquires 10% or more, but less than 25%, of any class of voting securities and either the bank holding company has registered securities under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or no other person owns a greater percentage of that class of voting securities immediately after the transaction.

Additionally, the BHCA provides that the Federal Reserve may not approve any of these transactions if it would result in or tend to create a monopoly or substantially lessen competition or otherwise function as a restraint of trade, unless the anti-competitive effects of the proposed transaction are clearly outweighed by the public interest in meeting the convenience and needs of the community to be served. The Federal Reserve is also required to consider the financial and managerial resources and future prospects of the bank holding companies and banks concerned and the convenience and needs of the community to be served. The Federal Reserve's consideration of financial resources generally focuses on capital adequacy, which is discussed below. As a result of the Patriot Act, which is discussed below, the Federal Reserve is also required to consider the record of a bank holding company and its subsidiary bank(s) in combating money laundering activities in its evaluation of bank holding company merger or acquisition transactions.

Except as authorized by the BHCA and Federal Reserve regulations or order, a bank holding company is generally prohibited from engaging in, or acquiring direct or indirect control of 5% or more of the voting shares of any company engaged in any business other than the business of banking or managing and controlling banks.

 

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The primary exception allows the ownership of shares by a bank holding company in any company the activities of which the Federal Reserve Board has determined to be so closely related to banking or to managing or controlling banks that ownership of shares of that company is appropriate. Some of the activities the Federal Reserve has determined by regulation to be proper incidents to the business of banking, and thus permissible for bank holding companies, include:

 

   

Making or servicing loans and certain types of leases;

 

   

Engaging in certain insurance and discount brokerage activities;

 

   

Performing certain data processing services;

 

   

Acting in certain circumstances as a fiduciary or investment or financial advisor;

 

   

Providing management consulting services;

 

   

Owning savings associations; and

 

   

Making investments in corporations or projects designed primarily to promote community welfare.

In accordance with Federal Reserve policy, a bank holding company is expected to act as a source of financial strength to its subsidiary banks. In adhering to the Federal Reserve’s policy, we may be required to provide financial support to the Bank at a time when, absent such Federal Reserve policy, it might not be deemed advisable to provide such assistance. Under the BHCA, the Federal Reserve may also require a bank holding company to terminate any activity or relinquish control of a non-bank subsidiary (other than a non-bank subsidiary of a bank) upon the Federal Reserve’s determination that the activity or control constitutes a serious risk to the financial soundness or stability of any subsidiary depository institution of the bank holding company. Further, federal bank regulatory authorities have additional discretion to require a bank holding company to divest itself of any bank or non-bank subsidiary if the agency determines that divestiture may aid the depository institution’s financial condition.

First Peoples Bank

As a state-chartered bank, the Bank is subject to the supervision and regulation of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation, Division of Financial Institutions (“OFR”) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”). Through December of 2013, our deposits are insured by the FDIC for a maximum of $250,000 per account title; however such insurance is unlimited for all non-interest bearing accounts until June 30, 2010. For this protection, we must pay a semi-annual statutory assessment and comply with the rules and regulations of the FDIC. The assessment levied on a bank for deposit insurance varies, depending on the capital position of each bank, and other supervisory factors. Currently, we are subject to the statutory assessment.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Act provides that, in the event of the “liquidation or other resolution” of a bank, the claims of depositors of the bank, including the claims of the FDIC as subrogee of insured depositors, and certain claims for administrative expenses of the FDIC as a receiver will have priority over other general unsecured claims against the bank. If a bank fails, insured and uninsured depositors, along with the FDIC, will have priority in payment ahead of unsecured, non-deposit creditors.

Areas regulated and monitored by the bank regulatory authorities include:

 

   

Security devices and procedures;

 

   

Adequacy of capitalization and loss reserves;

 

   

Loans;

 

   

Investments;

 

   

Borrowings;

 

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Deposits;

 

   

Mergers;

 

   

Issuances of securities;

 

   

Payment of dividends;

 

   

Establishment of branches;

 

   

Corporate reorganizations;

 

   

Transactions with affiliates;

 

   

Maintenance of books and records; and

 

   

Adequacy of staff training to carry out safe lending and deposit gathering practices.

Sections 23A and 23B of the Federal Reserve Act restrict transactions by banks with their affiliates. An affiliate of a bank is any company or entity which controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the bank. Generally, Sections 23A and 23B: (1) limit the extent to which a bank or it subsidiaries may engage in “covered transactions” with any one affiliate to an amount equal to 10% of that Bank’s capital stock and surplus (i.e., tangible capital); and (2) require that all such transactions be on terms substantially the same, or at least as favorable to the Bank or subsidiary, as those provided to a non-affiliate. The term “covered transaction” includes the making of loans, purchase of assets, issuance of a guarantee and other similar types of transactions.

A bank’s authority to extend credit to executive officers, directors and greater than 10% shareholders, as well as entities controlled by such persons, is subject to Sections 22(g) and 22(h) of the Federal Reserve Act and Regulation O promulgated thereunder by the Federal Reserve Board. Among other things, these loans must be made on terms substantially the same as those offered to unaffiliated individuals, the amount of loans a bank may make to these persons is based, in part, on the Bank’s capital position, and specified approval procedures must be followed in making loans which exceed specified amounts.

Capital Adequacy Requirements

Banks are subject to regulatory capital requirements imposed by the Federal Reserve and the FDIC. Until a bank and its holding company’s assets reach $500 million, the capital adequacy guidelines issued by the Federal Reserve are applied to bank holding companies on a non-consolidated basis, unless the bank holding company is engaged in non-bank activities involving significant leverage, or it has a significant amount of outstanding debt held by the general public. The OFR and FDIC risk-based capital guidelines apply directly to insured state banks, regardless of whether they are subsidiaries of a bank holding company. Both agencies’ requirements, which are substantially similar, establish minimum capital ratios in relation to assets, both on an aggregate basis as adjusted for credit risks and off balance sheet exposures. The risk weights assigned to assets are based primarily on credit risks. Depending upon the riskiness of a particular asset, it is assigned to a risk category. Under the guidelines, capital is compared to the relative risk related to the balance sheet. To derive the risk included in the balance sheet, one of four risk weights (0%, 20%, 50% and 100%) is applied to different balance sheet and off-balance sheet assets, primarily based on the relative credit risk of the counterparty. For example, claims guaranteed by the U.S. government or one of its agencies are risk-weighted at 0%. Off-balance sheet items, such as loan commitments and derivative financial instruments, are also assigned one of the above risk weights after calculating balance sheet equivalent amounts. For example, certain loan commitments are converted at 50% and then risk-weighted at 100%. Derivative financial instruments are converted to balance sheet equivalents based on notional values, replacement costs and remaining contractual terms. The capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about components, risk weightings and other factors.

 

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Capital is then classified into two categories, Tier 1 and Tier 2. Tier 1 capital consists of common and qualifying preferred shareholder’s equity, less goodwill and other adjustments. Tier 2 capital consists of mandatory convertible, subordinated, and other qualifying term debt, preferred stock not qualifying for Tier 1 capital, and a limited amount of allowance for credit losses, up to a designated percentage of risk-weighted assets. Under the risk-based guidelines, financial institutions must maintain a specified minimum ratio of “qualifying” capital to risk-weighted assets. At least 50% of an institution’s qualifying capital must be “core” or “Tier 1” capital, and the balance may be “supplementary” or “Tier 2” capital. In addition, the guidelines require banks to maintain a minimum leverage ratio standard of capital adequacy.

The leverage standard requires top-rated institutions to maintain a minimum Tier 1 leverage capital to assets ratio of 3%. All other institutions are required to maintain a Tier 1 leverage capital ratio of 4% or greater, based upon their particular circumstances and risk profiles. To be considered well capitalized, the leverage ratio for a bank holding company must be at least 5%. The guidelines further provide that bank holding companies making acquisitions will be expected to maintain strong capital positions substantially above the minimum levels.

Federal banking regulators have adopted regulations revising the risk-based capital guidelines to further ensure that the guidelines take adequate account of interest rate risk. Interest rate risk is the adverse effect that changes in market interest rates may have on a bank’s financial condition and is inherent to the business of banking. Under the regulations, when evaluating a bank’s capital adequacy, the revised capital standards now explicitly include a bank’s exposure to declines in the economic value of its capital due to changes in interest rates. The exposure of a bank’s economic value generally represents the change in the present value of its assets, less the change in the value of its liabilities, plus the change in the value of its interest rate off-balance sheet contracts.

Federal bank regulatory agencies possess broad powers to take prompt corrective action as deemed appropriate for an insured depository institution and its holding company, based on the institution’s capital levels. The extent of these powers depends upon whether the institution in question is considered “well-capitalized”, “adequately capitalized”, “undercapitalized”, “significantly under-capitalized”, or “critically undercapitalized”. Generally, as an institution is deemed to be less well-capitalized, the scope and severity of the agencies’ powers increase, ultimately permitting the agency to appoint a receiver for the institution. Business activities may also be influenced by an institution’s capital classification. For instance, only a “well-capitalized” depository institution may accept brokered deposits without prior regulatory approval and can engage in various expansion activities with prior notice, rather than prior regulatory approval. However, rapid growth, poor loan portfolio performance or poor earnings performance, or a combination of these factors, could change the capital position of the Bank in a relatively short period of time. Failure to meet these capital requirements could subject the Bank to prompt corrective action provisions of the FDIC, which may include filing with the appropriate bank regulatory authorities a plan describing the means and a schedule for achieving the minimum capital requirements. In addition, we would not be able to receive regulatory approval of any application that required consideration of capital adequacy, such as a branch or merger application, unless we could demonstrate a reasonable plan to meet the capital requirement within an acceptable period of time.

Dividends

The Company’s ability to pay further cash dividends may depend almost entirely upon the amount of dividends that the Bank is permitted to pay by statutes or regulations to us. Additionally, the Florida Business Corporation Act provides that we may only pay dividends if the dividend payment would not render us insolvent, or unable to meet our obligations as they come due. These provisions could have the effect of limiting our ability to pay dividends on the equity shares issued in the offering.

The OFR limits a bank’s ability to pay dividends. As a Florida state-chartered bank, we are subject to regulatory restrictions on the payment of dividends, including a prohibition of payment of dividends from the banks’ capital under certain circumstances without the prior approval of the OFR and the FDIC. Except with the

 

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prior approval of the OFR, all dividends of any Florida bank must be paid out of retained net profits from the current period and the previous two years, after deducting expenses, including losses and bad debts. In addition, a Florida state-chartered bank is required to transfer at least 20% of its net income to surplus until their surplus equals the amount of paid-in capital.

The Federal Reserve Board expects bank holding companies to serve as a source of strength to their subsidiary bank(s), which may require them to retain capital for further investment in their subsidiary bank(s), rather than pay dividends to shareholders of the bank holding company. As stated previously, the Bank may not pay dividends to the Company, if, after paying those dividends, the Bank would fail to meet the required minimum levels under the risk-based capital guidelines and the minimum leverage ratio requirements. Payment of dividends by the Bank may be restricted at any time at the discretion of its applicable regulatory authorities, if they deem such dividends to constitute an unsafe and/or unsound banking practice.

Fiscal and Monetary Policies

The business and earnings of FPB and the Bank will be affected significantly by the fiscal and monetary policies of the federal government and its agencies. FPB and the Bank are particularly affected by the policies of the Federal Reserve Board, which regulates the supply of money and credit in the United States. Among the instruments of monetary policy available to the Federal Reserve Board are (a) conducting open market operations in United States government securities, (b) changing the discount rates of borrowings of depository institutions, (c) imposing or changing reserve requirements against depository institutions’ deposits, and (d) imposing or changing reserve requirements against certain borrowing by banks and their affiliates. These methods are used in varying degrees and combinations to directly affect the availability of bank loans and deposits, as well as the interest rates charged on loans and paid on deposits. For that reason alone, the policies of the Federal Reserve Board have a material effect on the earnings of FPB and the Bank.

Other Laws

State usury and credit laws limit the amount of interest and various other charges collected or contracted by a bank on loans. Our loans are also subject to federal laws applicable to credit transactions, such as the:

 

   

Federal Truth-In-Lending Act, which governs disclosures of credit terms to consumer borrowers;

 

   

Community Reinvestment Act, which requires financial institutions to meet their obligations to provide for the total credit needs of the communities they serve, including investing their assets in loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers;

 

   

Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requiring financial institutions to provide information to enable public officials to determine whether a financial institution is fulfilling its obligations to meet the housing needs of the community it serves;

 

   

Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, creed or other prohibitive factors in extending credit;

 

   

Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, which requires lenders to disclose certain information regarding the nature and cost of real estate settlements, and prohibits certain lending practices, as well as limits escrow account amounts in real estate transactions;

 

   

Fair Credit Reporting Act governing the manner in which consumer debts may be collected by collection agencies; and

 

   

The rules and regulations of various federal agencies charged with the responsibility of implementing such federal laws.

 

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Our operations are also subject to the:

 

   

The privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, which requires us to maintain privacy policies intended to safeguard consumer financial information, to disclose these policies to our customers, and allow customers to “opt out” of having their financial service providers disclose their confidential financial information to non-affiliated third parties, subject to certain exceptions;

 

   

Right to Financial Privacy Act, which imposes a duty to maintain confidentiality of consumer financial records and prescribes procedures for complying with administrative subpoenas of financial records; and

 

   

Electronic Funds Transfer Act and Regulation E, which govern automatic deposits to, and withdrawals from, deposit accounts and customers’ rights and liabilities arising from the use of debit cards, automated teller machines and other electronic banking services.

Interstate Banking and Branching

Under the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994, eligible bank holding companies in any state are permitted, with Federal Reserve approval, to acquire banking organizations in any other state. The Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act also removed substantially all of the prohibitions on interstate branching by banks. The authority of a bank to establish and operate branches within a state, however, continues to be subject to applicable state branching laws. Under current Florida law, we are permitted to establish branch offices throughout Florida with the prior approval of the OFR and the FDIC. In addition, with prior regulatory approval, we would be able to acquire existing banking operations in other states.

Financial Modernization

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 sought to achieve significant modernization of the federal bank regulatory framework by allowing the consolidation of banking institutions with other types of financial services firms, subject to various restrictions and requirements. In general, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealed most of the federal statutory barriers which separated commercial banking firms from insurance and securities firms and authorized the consolidation of such firms in a “financial services holding company”. We have no immediate plans to utilize the structural options created by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, but may develop such plans in the future.

Anti-Money Laundering

After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the United States government acted in several ways to tighten control on activities perceived to be connected to money laundering and terrorist funding. A series of orders were issued which identify terrorists and terrorist organizations and require the blocking of property and assets of, as well as prohibiting all transactions or dealings with, such terrorists, terrorist organizations and those that assist or sponsor them. The USA Patriot Act enacted in 2001:

 

   

Substantially broadens existing anti-money laundering legislation and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the United States;

 

   

Imposes new compliance and due diligence obligations;

 

   

Creates new crimes and penalties;

 

   

Compels the production of documents located both inside and outside the United States; including those of foreign institutions that have a correspondent relationship in the United States; and

 

   

Clarifies the safe harbor from civil liability to customers.

 

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In addition, the United States Department of the Treasury issued regulations in cooperation with the federal banking agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice to:

 

   

Require customer identification and verification;

 

   

Expand the money-laundering program requirement to the major financial services sectors; including insurance and unregistered investment companies, such as hedge funds; and

 

   

Facilitate and permit the sharing of information between law enforcement and financial institutions, as well as among financial institutions themselves.

The United States Treasury Department also has created the Treasury USA PATRIOT Act Task Force to work with other financial regulators, the regulated community, law enforcement and consumers to continually improve the regulations. Recently, enforcement of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Bank Secrecy Act and other anti-money laundering laws and regulations has greatly increased from both State and Federal regulators.

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act

In response to the financial crisis affecting the banking system and financial markets, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (“EESA”) was signed into law on October 3, 2008, and established the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“TARP”). As part of TARP, the United States Department of the Treasury established the Capital Purchase Program (“CPP”) to provide up to $700 billion of funding to eligible financial institutions through the purchase of capital stock and other financial instruments for the purpose of stabilizing and providing liquidity to the U.S. financial markets. On December 5, 2008, FPB issued $5.8 million in preferred stock and a warrant to purchase 183,158 shares of common stock at $4.75 to the United States Department of the Treasury. In connection with EESA, there have been numerous actions by the Federal Reserve Board, Congress, the U.S. Treasury, the FDIC, the SEC and others to further the economic and banking industry stabilization efforts under EESA. It remains unclear at this time what further legislative and regulatory measures will be implemented under EESA affecting FPB.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

On February 17, 2009 President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA”), more commonly known as the economic stimulus or economic recovery package. ARRA includes a wide variety of programs intended to stimulate the economy and provide for extensive infrastructure, energy, health, and education needs. In addition, ARRA imposes certain new executive compensation and corporate expenditure limits on all current and future CPP recipients that are in addition to those previously announced by the United States Department of the Treasury, until the institution has repaid the United States Department of the Treasury, which is now permitted under ARRA without penalty and without the need to raise new capital, subject to the U.S. Treasury’s consultation with the recipient’s appropriate regulatory agency. The Federal Reserve recently has proposed regulations that intend to limit the amount of compensation that may be paid to any employee of a bank or bank holding company in the event that the risk related to such compensation is deemed inappropriate. The guidance says banks should consider three goals in reviewing compensation: provide incentives that discourage excessive risk taking, match "effective controls and risk management" and support strong corporate governance.

Future Legislation

Various other legislative and regulatory initiatives, including proposals to overhaul the banking regulatory system are from time to time introduced in Congress and state legislatures, as well as regulatory agencies. Currently, the United States Congress is actively considering significant changes to the manner of regulating financial institutions including combining one or more of Federal Reserve, FDIC, Comptroller of the Currency

 

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and the Office of Thrift Supervision and creating a new consumer protection agency for financial products. The current legislation being consider and other future legislation regarding financial institutions may change banking statutes and the operating environment of FPB and the Bank in substantial and unpredictable ways, and could increase or decrease the cost of doing business, limit or expand permissible activities or affect the competitive balance depending upon whether any of this potential legislation will be enacted, and if enacted, the effect that it or any implementing regulations, would have on the financial condition or results of operations of FPB or the Bank. The nature and extent of future legislative and regulatory changes affecting financial institutions is very unpredictable at this time. FPB cannot determine the ultimate effect that such potential legislation, if enacted, would have upon its financial condition or operations.

DIVIDEND INFORMATION

We have not paid any cash dividends on our common stock since 2005. There are no current plans to resume payment of cash dividends on our common stock. In addition, unless we obtain Federal Reserve approval to make dividend payments on our Series A Preferred Stock, we will not make such payments pursuant to the resolutions our Board has adopted. Florida law provides that FPB may only pay dividends if the dividend payment would not render it insolvent, or unable to meet its obligations as they come due. Additionally, future dividend policy will depend on our subsidiary’s earnings, capital requirements, financial condition, and other factors. To provide cash sufficient to pay these dividends, we intend to retain a portion of the offering proceeds at the holding company level. Additionally, if FPB is not current in its dividend payments on our outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock currently held by the U.S. Treasury, we may not pay dividends on our other securities, such as our common stock. See “Risk Factors.”

The Bank is a Florida state-chartered institution. Florida law limits its ability to pay dividends, including a prohibition of payment of dividends from their capital under certain circumstances without the prior approval of the OFR. Except with the prior approval of the OFR, all dividends of any Florida bank must be paid out of retained net profits from the current period and the previous two years, after deducting charging off bad debts, depreciation and other worthless assets, and making provision for reasonably anticipated future losses. In addition, state-chartered banks and trust companies in Florida are required to transfer at least 20% of their net income to surplus until their surplus equals the amount of paid-in capital. FPB does not anticipate that the Bank will pay dividends in the foreseeable future so that it can reclaim its well capitalized status and retain any earnings to support its growth.

 

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

General

The offering will expire at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time on January 15, 2010, unless we sell all of the Units earlier, terminate the offering earlier, or extend the offering. We reserve the right to terminate the offering at any time or to extend the offering, without notice, until no later than February 26, 2010.

Kendrick Pierce & Co. is acting as our placement agent for this offering. Subject to the terms and conditions described in a Placement Agent Agreement between the Placement Agent and FPB, the Placement Agent has agreed to place a minimum of 833,334 and a maximum of 4,166,500 Units on a “best efforts, minimum/maximum” basis. While the Placement Agent will use its best efforts to sell the Units, the Placement Agent is under no obligation to sell any or all of the Units and will not be obligated to purchase any of the Units.

We are offering the Units subject to prior sale, withdrawal, cancellation or modification of this Offering, including its structure, terms and conditions, without notice. We are offering the Units to the public at $6.00 per Unit. The Placement Agent may also offer the Units to selected dealers at the public offering price, less a concession not in excess of $0.252 per Unit. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to reject in whole or in part any offer to purchase the Units.

As soon as practicable after receipt of a subscription, we will decide whether to accept or reject it. Once a subscription is submitted, it will be binding and cannot be withdrawn by the subscriber. Payment from any subscriber for Units in excess of the amount of securities allocated to such subscriber, if any, will be refunded by mail, without interest, within three business days of the date of rejection.

The Placement Agent Agreement provides that we will pay as compensation to the Placement Agent a placement fee of 2% of the amount sold to FPB shareholders of record as of October 9, 2009 and 6% of the amount sold to all other investors. We will not pay any fee on Units sold to our directors, officers, employees or members of any of their immediate families. We will not pay any fee upon any exercise of warrants.

The following table summarizes the Placement Agent’s discounts and commissions that we will pay to the Placement Agent.

 

      Per Unit    Minimum Offering    Maximum Offering

Public offering price

   $ 6.00    $ 5,000,004    $ 24,999,000

Maximum commission

   $ 0.36    $ 300,000    $ 1,499,940

Proceeds to us, before expenses

   $ 5.64    $ 4,700,004    $ 23,499,060

We will be responsible for the expenses of issuance and distribution of the Units, including registration fees, legal and accounting fees and printing expenses, which we estimate will total approximately $300,000. In addition to the Placement Agent commissions, we will reimburse the Placement Agent for up to $50,000 of its reasonable expenses (or up to $75,000, if the offering remains open past November 30, 2009) and $30,000 as a financial advisory fee, regardless of whether we reach the minimum offering.

Payments for the Units may be made (i) by check, bank draft, wire transfer or money order made payable to “NorthStar Bank, as escrow agent for FPB Bancorp, Inc.” or (ii) by authorization of withdrawal from securities accounts maintained with the Placement Agent or one of the selected dealers.

The Placement Agent, and each of the selected dealers, has agreed, in accordance with the provisions of SEC Rule 15c2-4, to promptly (i.e., by noon of the next business day) transmit to NorthStar Bank, as escrow agent for the investors in the offering, all subscription funds received by the Placement Agent and selected dealers. NorthStar Bank, which is a “bank” as defined by the Securities Act of 1933 that is independent of the

 

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Company and the Placement Agent, has agreed in writing to hold all such funds in escrow for the investors, to deposit the funds into a separate bank account, to invest the funds only in the types of investments permitted under Rule 15c2-4 and to transmit or return such funds as follows:

 

   

If we have not received subscriptions for a minimum of 833,334 Units by January 15, 2010 (unless extended), the escrow agent will promptly return to the subscribers all funds placed in the escrow account without interest or deduction for expense;

 

   

When the minimum number of subscriptions for the Units is attained, we will conduct a first closing and the escrow agent will release all accepted subscription funds to us; and

 

   

At the conclusion of the offering, we will conduct a second closing and, at that time, the escrow agent will release all remaining subscription funds to us.

If payment is made by check, bank draft, wire transfer or money order, it must be accompanied by a completed Securities Order Form. Funds submitted in this fashion, will not accrue interest pending the closing or termination of this offering. If the offering is terminated, subscribers will receive a refund of their subscription funds without interest or reduction.

If payment is made by authorization of withdrawal from securities accounts, the funds authorized to be withdrawn from a securities account will continue to accrue interest, if any interest is to accrue on such amounts, at the contractual rates until closing or termination of the offering, but a hold will be placed on such funds, thereby making them unavailable to the purchaser until closing or termination of the offering. If a purchaser authorizes the Placement Agent or a selected dealer to withdraw the amount of the purchase price from a securities account, such Placement Agent or selected dealer will do so as of the date of closing. The Placement Agent and the selected dealers will inform prospective purchasers of the anticipated date of closing.

In the Placement Agent Agreement, the obligations of the Placement Agent are subject to various customary conditions. The Placement Agent Agreement also provides for reciprocal indemnification arrangements arising from certain liabilities that are found to exist as a consequence of the occurrence of violations of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, although we have been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such arrangements are in direct contravention of the public policy as expressed in that Act and are unenforceable.

The Placement Agent has the right to terminate the Placement Agent Agreement under defined circumstances, including, for example, if, in the Placement Agent’s judgment, there is a material adverse change in our financial condition or operations, or if market conditions brought about by an outbreak or escalation of hostilities, adverse economic conditions, or other circumstances that render the sale of our common stock impracticable or inadvisable.

The foregoing discussion does not attempt to summarize all substantive provisions of the Placement Agent Agreement, a copy of which may be obtained by any interested investor upon request and has been filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Purchase Limitations

Investors who were not Bank shareholders of record on October 9, 2009, are required to purchase a minimum of 1,700 Units in order to participate in the offering, although we reserve the right to waive this requirement in our sole discretion. Shareholders of record as of October 9, 2009, do not have a minimum purchase requirement. Shares will not be issued to any person who, in our opinion, would be required to obtain prior clearance or approval from any state or federal regulatory authority to own or control such securities until such clearance has been obtained. This restriction applies to individual investors, as well as to investors who would be presumed to be acting in concert with each other.

 

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Under federal regulations, a rebuttable presumption of concerted action will arise under the following circumstances:

 

   

a person will be presumed to be acting in concert with the members of the person’s immediate family (which includes a person’s spouse, father, mother, step-parent, children, step-children, brothers, step-brothers, sisters, step-sisters and grandchildren; the father, mother, brothers, and sisters of the person’s spouse; and the spouses of the foregoing);

 

   

In addition, the following persons will be presumed to be acting in concert:

 

   

a company and any controlling shareholder, partner, trustee, or management official of that company, if both the company and the person own voting securities of the Bank;

 

   

companies under common control;

 

   

persons that are parties to any agreement, contract, understanding, relationship or other arrangement, whether written or otherwise, regarding the acquisition, voting or transfer of control of voting securities of a bank or bank holding company, other than through a revocable proxy as described in Section 255.42(a)(5) of Regulation Y;

 

   

persons that have made, or propose to make, a joint filing under Sections 13 or 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78n), and the rules promulgated thereunder by the SEC; and

 

   

a person and any trust for which the person serves as trustee.

Suitability Standards

The requested size of a proposed subscription may cause us to seek further information concerning the subscriber’s net worth, potential for income production, experience in making investment decisions and primary investment objectives. The satisfaction of any such inquiry does not necessarily mean that an investment in the Units is suitable or that a subscription by a particular subscriber to invest will be accepted. Because of the probable lack of any significant public market for our securities for an indefinite period following their issuance, a subscriber should consider an investment in the Units to be an illiquid and long-term investment. Also, due to the nature of the investment, an early sale of the securities underlying the Units could result in a loss to the selling shareholder of some part or all of his initial investment.

Continuing Offering

In addition, we will continue to offer our common stock to warrant holders on a continuous basis until December 17, 2014. During this period, we will issue stock upon receipt of exercised warrants and the exercise funds. We will not pay any sales agent fees or commissions upon the exercise of warrants.

DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

We have 27,000,000 shares of authorized capital stock, $0.01 par value per share, of which 25,000,000 are shares of common stock and 2,000,000 are shares of preferred stock.

Common Stock

Currently, we have 2,058,047 shares of common stock outstanding. Holders of our common stock are entitled to receive dividends if, as and when declared by our board of directors out of any funds legally available for dividends. Holders of our common stock are also entitled, upon our liquidation, and after claims of creditors and the preferences of any class or series of preferred stock outstanding at the time of liquidation, to receive pro

 

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rata our net assets. We may pay dividends on our common stock only if we have paid or provided for all dividends on our outstanding series of preferred stock for the then current period and, in the case of any cumulative preferred stock, all prior periods.

Holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share that they hold and are vested with all of the voting power except as our board of directors has provided, or may provide in the future, with respect to preferred stock or any other class or series of preferred stock that the board of directors may hereafter authorize. Shares of our common stock are not redeemable, and have no subscription, conversion or preemptive rights.

Our common stock is currently listed for trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “FPBI.” Outstanding shares of our common stock are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. Holders of our common stock are not subject to any liability as shareholders.

Series A Preferred Stock

On December 5, 2008, pursuant to the TARP, FPB issued to the United States Department of the Treasury all of the 5,800 authorized shares of Series A Preferred Stock, having a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share.

Cumulative dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock accrue on the liquidation preference amount at an annual rate of 5% per year for the first five years and at an annual rate of 9% thereafter, but will be paid only if and when declared by FPB’s Board of Directors. The Series A Preferred Stock has no maturity date and ranks senior to the common stock (and pari passu with the Series B Shares) with respect to the payment of dividends, distributions and amounts payable upon liquidation, dissolution and winding up of FPB. Subject to the approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Series A Preferred Stock is redeemable at the option of the Company at 100% of its liquidation preference, plus all accrued but unpaid dividends.

Warrants

In connection with this offering, we will issue up 4,166,500 warrants. Each warrant will permit the holder thereof to purchase one share of common stock at a per share price of $2.00 per share. The warrants will expire on December 17, 2014. The warrants will be freely transferable, but we do not expect a liquid market to develop through a listing on any exchange or quotation on any market. If we do not maintain a current and effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 covering the warrants and the underlying shares of common stock, the warrants may expire unexercised on their expiration date. Under no circumstances shall a warrant holder be entitled to (a) net-cash settlement of a warrant or the underling shares of common stock, regardless of whether any or all of the securities have been registered by us pursuant to an effective registration statement, or (b) receive any damages if any or all of the securities have not been registered by us pursuant to an effective registration statement. A warrant holder will not be entitled to exercise warrants unless a registration statement covering the securities is effective or an exemption from registration is available.

In connection with our participation in TARP, we issued the Treasury a warrant to purchase up to 183,158 shares of our common stock, at $4.75 per share. Those warrants will expire in December 2018 and the number of underlying shares will be reduced by half if we raise at least $5.8 million

Undesignated Preferred Stock

We currently have 1,994,200 shares of authorized, undesignated preferred stock. The Board of Directors is authorized, subject to any limitations prescribed by law, to provide for the issuance of the shares of preferred stock in series, and by filing a certificate pursuant to the applicable laws of the State of Florida, to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such series and to fix the stated value, designation,

 

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powers, preferences and right of the shares of each such series and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof. The number of authorized shares of preferred stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the common stock.

TRANSFER AGENT

The transfer agent for our common stock is Registrar and Transfer Company, 10 Commerce Drive, Cranford, New Jersey 07016-3572, telephone number: (800) 368-5948.

LEGAL MATTERS

Certain legal matters relating to the common stock offered by this prospectus have been passed upon for FPB by Igler & Dougherty, P.A., Tallahassee, Florida. Certain matters will be passed upon for the Placement Agent by Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, Tampa, Florida.

EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements of FPB as of December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 and for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2008, have been incorporated by reference herein in reliance upon the reports of Hacker, Johnson & Smith, P.A., independent registered public accounting firm, and upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

AVAILABLE INFORMATION

FPB is subject to the informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and in accordance therewith, files annual and quarterly reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. Reports and other information filed by us with the SEC can be inspected and copied at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Copies of such material may also be obtained from the Public Reference Section of the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549 at prescribed rates. Please call the SEC at (800) SEC-0330 for further information on the Public Reference rooms. The SEC also maintains a site on the World Wide Web at http://www.sec.gov that contains reports and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the SEC, and our filings are available on the SEC’s website.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

We incorporate by reference the documents listed below:

 

   

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 19, 2009 (File No. 000-33351);

 

   

Our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q: for the quarter ended March 31, 2009, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 14, 2009; for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 12, 2009; and for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 16, 2009 (File No. 000-33351);

 

   

Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2009, April 29, 2009, August 7, 2009, October 8, 2009 and October 29, 2009 (excluding, in each case, information or documents furnished but not filed therewith) (File No. 000-33351);

 

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Our Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18, 2009 (File No. 000-33351); and

 

   

Our Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 9, 2009 (File No. 000-33351).

On the written or oral request of each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom a copy of this prospectus is delivered, we will provide, at no cost to the requester, a copy of any or all of the documents incorporated in this prospectus or in any related prospectus supplement by reference, except the exhibits to those documents, unless the exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference.

Written requests for copies should be directed to FPB Bancorp, Inc., Nancy E. Aumack, Chief Financial Officer, 1792 NE Jensen Beach Boulevard, Jensen Beach, Florida 34957. Telephone requests for copies should be directed to (772) 398-1388. Such documents are also available through our Internet website: www.1stpeoplesbank.com.

You may read and copy any of these documents at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, DC, 20549. Please call the Securities and Exchange Commission at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information. Our Securities and Exchange Commission filings are also available to the public from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

You should rely only upon the information provided in this document, or incorporated in this document by reference. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. You should not assume that the information in this document, including any information incorporated by reference, is accurate as of any date other than the date indicated on the front cover or the date given in the applicable document.

 

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You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with information different from that contained in this prospectus. We are offering to sell, and seeking offers to buy, securities only in jurisdictions where offers and sales are permitted. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery or of any sale of our common stock.

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

     Page

Forward-Looking Statements

   1

About this Prospectus

   1

Where You Can Find More Information

   1

Prospectus Summary

   2

Summary Financial Data

   8

The Offering

   9

Risk Factors

   11

Capitalization

   24

Our Business

   24

Management and Board of Directors

   34

Price Range of Our Common Stock

   37

Supervision and Regulation

   38

Dividend Information

   45

Plan of Distribution

   46

Description of Capital Stock

   48

Transfer Agent

   50

Legal Matters

   50

Experts

   50

Available Information

   50

Documents Incorporated By Reference

   50

Warrant Plan

   Exhibit A

 

 

 

 

 

4,166,500 Units

Each Consisting of

Four Shares of Common Stock and

a Warrant to Purchase

One Share of Common Stock

FPB Bancorp, Inc.

 

 

PROSPECTUS

 

 

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PART II — INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

ITEM 13. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION

The following table sets forth the various expenses payable in connection with the sale and distribution of the securities being registered, other than underwriting discounts and commission. All of such expenses will be paid by us. All of the amounts shown are estimates, except for the Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee.

 

SEC registration fee

   $ 1,744

Nasdaq listing fee

     500

Accounting fees and expenses

     25,000

Legal fees and expenses

     150,000

Printing and shipping

     50,000

Miscellaneous

     72,756
      

Total

   $ 300,000
      

 

ITEM 14. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

As provided under Florida law, our directors shall not be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for breach of duty of care or any other duty owed to FPB Bancorp, Inc. as a director, unless the breach of or failure to perform those duties constitutes:

 

   

a violation of criminal law, unless the director had reasonable cause to believe his conduct was lawful, or had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful;

 

   

a transaction from which the director received an improper personal benefit;

 

   

an unlawful corporate distribution;

 

   

an act or omission which involves a conscious disregard for the best interests of FPB Bancorp, Inc. or which involves willful misconduct; or

 

   

an act of recklessness or an act or omission which was committed in bad faith or with malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful disregard of human rights, safety or property.

FPB Bancorp, Inc.’s Bylaws provides that we shall indemnify a director who has been successful in the defense of any proceeding to which he was a party, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, because he is or was a director of FPB Bancorp, Inc., against reasonable expense incurred by him in connection with such defense.

The Bylaws also provide that FPB Bancorp, Inc. is required to indemnify any director, officer, employee or agent made a party to a proceeding because he is or was a director, employee or agent against liability incurred in the proceeding if he acted in a manner he believed in good faith or to be in or not opposed to the best interests of FPB Bancorp, Inc. and, in the case of any criminal proceeding, he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. Determination concerning whether or not the applicable standard of conduct has been met can be made by: (i) a disinterested majority of the Board of Directors; (ii) a majority of a committee of disinterested directors; (iii) independent legal counsel; or (iv) an affirmative vote of a majority of shares held by disinterested stockholders.

 

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ITEM 15. RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES

On December 5, 2008, we entered into a purchase agreement with the United States Department of the Treasury, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell (i) 5,800 shares of our Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, par value $0.01 per share and (ii) a warrant to purchase 183,158 shares of our common stock, par value $0.01 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $5,800,000 in cash. These securities were sold in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in reliance on Section (4)(2) of the Securities Act. The purchaser in such transaction was an “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

ITEM 16. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

Exhibits. The following exhibits are filed with or incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. The exhibits marked with an (a) were previously filed as a part of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form SB-1, filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on April 30, 2000; those marked with a (b) were filed with the Company’s 2003 Proxy Statement filed with the Security and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 28, 2003; those marked with a (c) were filed with the Company’s Definitive Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on October 26, 2005; those marked with a (d) were filed with the Company’s Form 8-A with the SEC on November 16, 2001; those marked with an (e) were filed with the Company’s Form 10-QSB with the SEC on August 2, 2008; those marked with an (f) were filed with the Company’s Form 10-QSB with the SEC on November 6, 2008; those marked with a (g) were filed with the Company’s Form S-1A filed on October 29, 2009; those marked with an (h) were filed with the Company’s Form 8-K on December 5, 2008; those marked with an (i) were filed with the Company’s Form S-1 on September 17, 2009; and those marked with a (j) were filed with the Company’s Form 10-Q on November 16, 2009, and those marked with a (k) were filed with the Company’s Form S-1/A on November 16, 2009.

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description of Exhibit

(k)1.1

   Form of Placement Agent Agreement

(d)3.1

   Articles of Incorporation

(d)3.2

   Bylaws

(e)3.3

   Amendment to the Bylaws, Adopted August 15, 2008

(h)3.4

   Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation

(j)3.5

   Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation

(a)4.1

   Specimen copy of certificate evidencing shares of the Company’s common capital stock, $0.01 par value

(a)4.2

   First Peoples Bank Stock Option Plan dated January 14, 1999

(h)4.3

   Form of Certificate for Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A

(h)4.4

   Warrant to Purchase Up to 183,158 Shares of Common Stock

(b)4.5

   Amendment to First Peoples Bank Stock Option Plan

(c)4.6

   2005 Stock Compensation Plan

(g)4.7

   2009 Warrant Plan, including Form Warrant Certificate

5.1

   Opinion of Igler & Dougherty, P.A.

(a) 10.1

   First Peoples Bank Qualified 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan, dated May 1, 1999

(f)10.2

   Amended and Restated Employment Agreement for David W. Skiles

(e)10.3

   Amended and Restated Change in Control Agreement for Nancy E. Aumack

 

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Exhibit No.

  

Description of Exhibit

(e)10.4

   Amended and Restated Change in Control Agreement for Stephen J. Krumfolz

(e)10.5

   Amended and Restated Change in Control Agreement for Marge Riley

(h)10.6

   Letter Agreement, dated December 5, 2008 between the Company and the United States Department of the Treasury

(h)10.7

   Form of Waiver, executed by each of David W. Skiles, Nancy E. Aumack and Marge Riley

(h)10.8

   Form of Compliance Agreement, executed by each of David W. Skiles, Nancy E. Aumack, and Marge Riley

(h)10.9

   Securities Purchase Agreement – Standard Terms between the Company and the United States Department of the Treasury

(k)10.10

   Form of Escrow Agreement

(i)21.1

   Subsidiaries of the Registrant

23.1

   Consent of Igler & Dougherty, P.A. (contained in Exhibit 5.1)

23.2

   Consent of Hacker, Johnson & Smith, P.A

(i)24.1

   Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page)

 

ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS

(a) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b) (1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

(b) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

(c) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

 

  1. To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

 

  i. To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

 

  ii.

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aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement.

 

  iii. To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

 

  2. That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

  3. To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

 

  4. That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

 

  i. If the registrant is relying on Rule 430B (Section 230.430B of this chapter):

 

  A. Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

 

  B. Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date; or

 

  ii.

If the registrant is subject to Rule 430C, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement

 

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that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

 

  5. That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities: The undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

 

  i. Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

  ii. Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

 

  iii. The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

 

  iv. Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Port St. Lucie, State of Florida on November 23, 2009.

 

 

FPB BANCORP, INC.
By:   /s/ David W. Skiles
 

David W. Skiles

President, Chief Executive Officer & Principal Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following person in the capacities indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    Nancy E. Aumack

Nancy E. Aumack

   Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer   November 23, 2009

*

Gary A. Berger

   Chairman and the Board of Directors   November 23, 2009

*

Donald J. Cuozzo

   Director   November 23, 2009

*

Ann L. Decker

   Corporate Secretary and Director   November 23, 2009

*

Timothy K. Grimes

   Director   November 23, 2009

*

John S. Leighton, III

   Director   November 23, 2009

*

Paul J. Miret

   Director   November 23, 2009

*

Robert L. Schweiger

   Director   November 23, 2009

*

Robert L. Seeley

   Director   November 23, 2009

/s/    David W. Skiles

David W. Skiles

   Chief Executive Officer, President, Principal Executive Officer, Director   November 23, 2009

*

Paul A. Zinter

   Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors   November 23, 2009

 

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