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CURRENT REPORT
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| Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure. |
Amerant Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) is hereby making available a presentation titled “Amerant, Strategic Capital Raise” (the “Investor Presentation”), which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
The information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including in Exhibit 99.1, is being furnished pursuant to Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any other filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This Current Report, including Exhibit 99.1, contains “forward-looking statements” including statements with respect to the Company’s objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements that are not historical facts. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements relating to the potential securities offering, which is opportunistic and subject to market conditions, the Company’s preliminary estimated third quarter 2024 financial information and expectations, the expected use of proceeds from the proposed offering (including any repositioning of the Company’s securities portfolio and other actions described herein), and the Company’s future business operations and strategy. You can identify these forward-looking statements through our use of words such as “may,” “balance sheet optimization efforts,” “will,” “anticipate,” “assume,” “should,” “indicate,” “would,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “expect,” “estimate,” “continue,” “point to,” “project,” “could,” “intend,” “target,” “goals,” “outlooks,” “modeled,” “dedicated,” “anticipate,” “create,” “preliminary,” and other similar words and expressions of the future.
Forward-looking statements, including those relating to our beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, estimates and intentions, involve risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may be beyond our control, and which may cause the Company’s actual results, performance, achievements, or financial condition to be materially different from future results, performance, achievements, or financial condition expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. You should not rely on any forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. You should not expect us to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law. All written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to us are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary notice, together with those risks and uncertainties described in “Risk factors” in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 filed on March 7, 2024 (the “Form 10-K”), our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (including our quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on August 2, 2024), and in our other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which are available at the SEC’s website www.sec.gov.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits
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| 99.1 | Investor Presentation titled, “Amerant, Strategic Capital Raise”. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| AMERANT BANCORP, INC. | ||||||
| Date: September 25, 2024 | By: | /s/ Julio V. Pena | ||||
| Name: | Julio V. Pena | |||||
| Title: | Senior Vice President, Securities Counsel and Corporate Secretary | |||||