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PacTrust Bank Offloads Branches To Intensify Focus On Businesses, HNW Families

Pacific Trust Bank has completed its previously-announced sale of eight legacy branches in San Diego, Riverside and Los Angeles counties to AmericanWest Bank, a Washington state chartered bank.
Bank of California chief executive, Steven Sugarman, said the sale “reshapes PacTrust Bank’s retail branch network to focus on serving small- to mid-sized businesses and high net worth families throughout Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.”
(Banc of California is the holding company for Pacific Trust Bank and The Private Bank of California.)
The following PacTrust Bank branches were sold in the transaction: Riverside (2 branches) and Temecula (1 branch) (in Riverside County); California Chula Vista (2 branches), El Cajon (1 branch), and San Diego/Clairemont (1 branch) (in San Diego County, CA); and one branch in Lakewood (in Los Angeles County, CA.)
The transaction resulted in a transfer of some $464 million worth of deposits to AmericanWest Bank. The firm said that certain other assets related to the branches were also acquired as a part of the transaction including the sale of the real estate for three of the branch locations and certain home equity lines of credit related to some of the deposit accounts.