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Article: Union Bankshares Announces Shareholders' Approvals and Unveils New Name and Logo.
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- Mergers & Acquisitions Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Union Bankshares Corporation, a Virginia multi-bank holding company ("Union"), announces that it has received shareholder approvals for its acquisition of First Market Bank, FSB ("First Market") and for changing its corporate name to Union First Market Bankshares Corporation; the votes were tallied yesterday at a special shareholders' meeting. The two entities expect to close the transaction following their receipt of all regulatory approvals. Union will move its corporate headquarters to Richmond.
Union and First Market also unveiled yesterday the new logo and the new combined bank name they plan to use following the merger of two of its member banks; they have ...