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Article: ENDGAME UNDERWAY
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- Northwestern Financial Review
- Article date:
- February 15, 2008
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With sale pending, attorney Hamann reflects on building Great Western Bancorp.
Deryl F. Hamann, 75, is senior counsel at the Omaha, Neb., law firm of Baird, Holm, McEachen, Pedersen, Hamann & Strasheim, LLP, in addition to serving as chairman of Great Western Bancorporation, Sioux Falls, S.D. Great Western, a $3.4 billion holding company with more than 100 offices in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Arizona, reached agreement in November to be acquired by National Australia Bank of Melbourne for $798 million. (See page 16 of the Jan. 1-14, 2008 edition of North * Western Financial Review.)
Hamann grew up in Webster County, Iowa. He said he was 12 years old before his ...