Mississippi Business Journal » Houston Texas http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Still in acquisition mode, Cadence set to buy Houston’s Encore Bancshares Inc. http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/still-in-acquisition-mode-cadence-set-to-buy-houston%e2%80%99s-encore-bancshares-inc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=still-in-acquisition-mode-cadence-set-to-buy-houston%25e2%2580%2599s-encore-bancshares-inc http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/still-in-acquisition-mode-cadence-set-to-buy-houston%e2%80%99s-encore-bancshares-inc/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:14:32 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=53892 Birmingham’s Cadence Bancorp, formerly headquartered in Starkville, has signed a definitive agreement to buy Houston-based Encore Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBTX) in an all-cash transaction of $20.62 per share. Under the deal, Cadence would pay approximately $250 million for the approximately 12.1 million outstanding shares of Encore, a $1.6 billion banking company with 12 locations in [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/still-in-acquisition-mode-cadence-set-to-buy-houston%e2%80%99s-encore-bancshares-inc/feed/ 0 USM FUNDRAISING FOR COLLEGE OF BUSINESS REACHES A MILESTONE — Gift from First Bancshares, parent of The First, puts effort over $8 million mark http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/24/usm-find-raising-for-college-of-business-reaches-a-milestone-%e2%80%94-gift-from-first-bancshares-parent-of-the-first-puts-effort-over-8-million-mark/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=usm-find-raising-for-college-of-business-reaches-a-milestone-%25e2%2580%2594-gift-from-first-bancshares-parent-of-the-first-puts-effort-over-8-million-mark http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/24/usm-find-raising-for-college-of-business-reaches-a-milestone-%e2%80%94-gift-from-first-bancshares-parent-of-the-first-puts-effort-over-8-million-mark/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:01:11 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=52924 A recent donation from First Bancshares Inc. put the University of Southern Mississippi over the $8 million mark in its quest to raise $10 million to cover its share of a new 90,000 square foot home for the College of Business. In addition, Southern Miss alumnus Chuck Scianna, a 1975 finance grad and Houston businessman, [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/12/donor-5-million-gift-to-usm-business-college-an-investment-%e2%80%94-not-a-payback/feed/ 0 Daly named partner http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/18/daly-named-partner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daly-named-partner http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/18/daly-named-partner/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:48:47 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=51081 Andrews Kurth, LLP, announced the election of Jon W. Daly in its Houston, Texas, office to the partnership. Daly’s principal area of practice is corporate and securities law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and the representation of issuers and investment banks in connection with public and private offerings of equity and debt securities. [...]

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