bmrc-20201231

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K/A

(Amendment No. 1)

(Mark One)

☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from __________________ to __________________

Commission File Number 001-33572

Bank of Marin Bancorp

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

California

20-8859754

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

504 Redwood Blvd.

Suite 100

Novato

94947

(Address of principal executive office)

(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (415) 763-4520

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12 (b) of the Act:

None

Securities registered pursuant to section 12(g) of the Act:


Title of each class	Trading symbol	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, No Par Value, and attached Share Purchase Rights	BMRC	The Nasdaq Stock Market

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

Yes ☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.

Yes ☐ No ☒

Note - checking the box above will not relieve any registrant required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act from their obligations under these sections.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).

Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer”, “smaller reporting company,” and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer

☐

Accelerated filer

☒

Non-accelerated filer

☐

(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

Smaller reporting company

☐

Emerging growth company

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☒

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a shell company, as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Yes ☐ No ☒

As of June 30, 2020, the last business day of the registrant's most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the aggregate market value of the voting common equity held by non-affiliates, based upon the closing price per share of the registrant's common stock as reported by the Nasdaq, was approximately $426 million. For the purpose of this response, directors and certain officers of the Registrant are considered affiliates at that date.

As of February 28, 2021, there were 13,359,479 shares of common stock outstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the registrant's Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on May 11, 2021 are incorporated by reference into Part III.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Explanatory Note		Page-2
PART II		Page-3
ITEM 8.	FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA, pp 46 to 48 of the annual report on Form 10-K	Page-3
PART IV		Page-6
ITEM 15.	E x hibits	Page-6
SIGNATURES		Page-6

Explanatory Note

This amended annual report on Form 10-K/A amends the annual report on Form 10-K of Bank of Marin Bancorp ("Registrant") for the year ended December 31, 2020, which was initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2021 (the "Original Filing") for the sole purpose of including the signature of Moss Adams LLP, the Registrant's independent registered public accounting firm, in one place where the signature was inadvertently omitted in the Original Filing. The signature was timely provided by Moss Adams LLP and received by the Registrant at the time of the Original Filing. We have not modified or updated disclosures presented in the Original Filing except by amending the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm - Opinions on the Consolidated Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting to include the signature of Moss Adams LLP, the Registrant's independent registered public accounting firm.

Three pages of the Form 10-K have been corrected as a result of this Amendment solely to add "/s/ Moss Adams LLP":

1.Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, pp 46-48 of the annual report on Form 10-K.

These three pages, as amended, read as follows:

PART II

ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of

Bank of Marin Bancorp

Opinions on the Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of condition of Bank of Marin Bancorp and subsidiary (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the related consolidated statements of comprehensive income, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2020, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). We also have audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2020, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.

Change in Accounting Principle

As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed its method of accounting for credit losses effective December 31, 2020, due to the adoption of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 326: Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (“Topic 326”). The Company adopted the new credit loss standard using the modified retrospective approach such that prior period amounts are not adjusted and continue to be reported in accordance with previously applicable generally accepted accounting principles. The adoption of the new credit loss standard and it subsequent application is also communicated as a critical audit matter below.

Basis for Opinions

The Company’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.

Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures to respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our

audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Critical Audit Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Allowance for Credit Losses - Loans

As discussed in Notes 1 and 3 to the consolidated financial statements, the allowance for credit losses on loans at December 31, 2020, was $22.9 million on a total loan portfolio of $2.1 billion. The Company adopted the current expected credit losses standard, and all related amendments as of December 31, 2020, and has an established process to determine the appropriateness of the allowance for credit losses on loans receivable. The allowance for credit losses provides an estimate of lifetime expected losses in the loan portfolio. The measurement of expected credit losses is based on relevant available information, from internal and external sources, relating to past events, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts that affect the collectability of the financial assets.

We identified the allowance for credit losses on loans as a critical audit matter. The principal considerations for our determination of allowance for credit losses on loans as a critical audit matter are subjectivity of the estimation and application of forecasted economic conditions, probabilities of default, loss given default, prepayments and curtailments over the contractual terms of the loan, and qualitative internal and external risk factors used in the calculation of the allowance for credit losses. The economic forecast component of the allowance for credit losses on loans is used to compare the conditions that existed during the historical period to current conditions and future expectations. The probabilities of default and loss given default are used to establish estimated losses at the loan portfolio segment level. Prepayments and curtailments over the contractual terms of the loans are used to estimate future cash flows. The qualitative internal and external risk factors are used to adjust for differences in segment-specific risk characteristics or to reflect the extent to which expected current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts of economic conditions differ from conditions that existed during the historical period included in the probability of default and loss given default development. Auditing management’s judgements regarding forecasted economic conditions, probabilities of default, loss given default, prepayments and curtailments over the contractual terms of the loan, and qualitative internal and external risk factors applied to the allowance for credit losses involved a high degree of subjectivity.

The primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter included:

a.Test the design, implementation, and operating effectiveness of controls related to management’s calculation of the allowance for credit losses on loans, including controls over the forecasted economic conditions used, probabilities of default, loss given default, prepayments and curtailments, and qualitative internal and external risk factors used.

b.Obtaining management’s analysis and supporting documentation related to the forecasted economic conditions, and testing whether the forecasts used in the calculation of the allowance for credit losses on loans are reasonable and supportable based on the analysis provided by management.

c.Obtaining management’s analysis and supporting documentation related to the probabilities of default, and loss given default, and testing whether factors used in the calculation of the allowance for credit losses on loans are reasonable and supportable based on the analysis provided by management.

d.Obtaining management’s analysis and supporting documentation related to prepayments and curtailments, and testing whether factors used in the calculation of the allowance for credit losses on loans are reasonable and supportable based on the analysis provided by management.

e.Obtaining management’s analysis and supporting documentation related to the qualitative factors, and testing whether the environmental and qualitative factors used in the calculation of the allowance for credit losses on loans are supported by the analysis provided by management.

f.Testing the appropriateness of the methodology and assumptions used in the calculation of the allowance for credit losses on loans, as well as testing completeness and accuracy of the data used in the calculation, application of the forecasted economic conditions, probabilities of default, loss given default, prepayments and curtailments over the contractual terms of the loan, and factors determined by management and used in the calculation, and verifying calculations in the allowance for credit losses on loans.

/s/ Moss Adams LLP

Los Angeles, California

March 15, 2021

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2004.

PART IV

ITEM 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

(A) Documents Filed as Part of this Report:

1. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the year ended December 31, 2020.

There are no financial statements included in this Form 10-K/A.

There are no financial statement schedules included in this Form 10-K/A.

The exhibits listed below are filed with this Form 10-K/A.

2. Financial Statement Schedules

None.

(B) Exhibits Filed:

The following exhibits are filed as part of this report or hereby incorporated by references to filings previously made with the SEC.

Incorporated by Reference

Exhibit Number

Exhibit Description

Form

File No.

Exhibit

Filing Date

Herewith

31.01

Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Filed

31.02

Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Filed

32.01

Certification pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350 as adopted pursuant to §906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Filed

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.


									Bank of Marin Bancorp (registrant)

			May 17, 2021						/s/ Tani Girton
			Date						Tani Girton
									Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
									(Principal Financial Officer)

SEC Form 10-K/A filed by Bank of Marin Bancorp (Amendment)