UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
 

FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT
 
 
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):   September 9, 2011
 
 
Horizon Bancorp
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
     
     
Indiana
000-10792
35-1562417
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
   
   
515 Franklin Square, Michigan City, Indiana
46360
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
 
 
(219) 879-0211
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
 
 
N/A
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 
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Item 8.01 Other Events
 
As previously reported, on August 25, 2011, Horizon Bancorp (the “Company”) redeemed the remaining 18,750 outstanding shares of preferred stock that the Company had issued to the United States Department of the Treasury in December 2008 in connection with the Company’s participation in the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program Capital Purchase Program (“TARP CPP”). As a consequence of that redemption, the restrictions lapsed on the shares of long-term restricted common stock the Company had issued to its five most highly compensated employees (the “Employees”) in lieu of cash bonuses during the period that the Company was subject to the TARP CPP compensation limitations. On September 9, 2009, Horizon Bancorp repurchased from the Employees 16,064 shares of the formerly restricted stock at a per share price of $26.30, the closing price of the Company’s common stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Market on the date the restrictions on the shares lapsed and the Company’s Board of Directors conditionally approved the repurchases, for a total repurchase price of $422,483.
 

 
 
 
SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereto duly authorized.
 
 
Date: September 13, 2011
Horizon Bancorp
     
     
 
By:
/s/ Mark E. Secor
   
Mark E. Secor,
Chief Financial Officer