Community Bank Acquisition Due Diligence

The community bank mergers and acquisitions market is currently very active. While this has been the case for the past few years, the industry as a whole is in a much different place today than it was five years ago. During and coming out of the recession, much of the industry’s consolidation was born out of necessity—i.e., survival—and many of the “traditional” reasons for mergers and acquisitions, such as lack of succession or a price too good to refuse, were not predominant factors driving deals.