Alliance Bancorp, Inc. of Pennsylvania, the holding company for Alliance Bank, announced that the Plan of Conversion and Reorganization, providing for the “second-step” conversion of Alliance Mutual Holding Company, the Company’s mutual holding company parent, was approved by the shareholders of the Company and the depositors of Alliance Bank at separate meetings held on December 29, 2010. Completion of the conversion also is subject to, among other things, the sale of a minimum of 2,635,000 shares of common stock of the new holding company in the offering and the receipt of final regulatory approvals.
The Company also announced that the newly formed Pennsylvania corporation and proposed new holding company for Alliance Bank, also named Alliance Bancorp, Inc. of Pennsylvania (“Alliance BancorpNew”), is commencing a syndicated community offering on January 4, 2011, and will not accept any orders submitted in the direct community offering after December 31, 2010. Shares of common stock of Alliance BancorpNew will be sold in the syndicated community offering at a purchase price of $10.00 per share. As previously announced on December 27, 2010, Alliance BancorpNew has, subject to certain exceptions described in the Plan of Conversion and Reorganization, increased the maximum purchase limits to an amount equal to 5% of the shares sold in the offering (131,750 shares or $1,317,500 at the minimum of the offering range and 178,250 shares or $1,782,500 at the maximum of the offering range). Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated is assisting Alliance BancorpNew in selling its common stock in the offering on a best efforts basis and will act as sole book-running manager of the syndicated community offering.
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