ArentFox Schiff Advises Wintrust on Merger with Macatawa Bank Corporation

ArentFox Schiff advised Wintrust Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: WTFC) on its merger with Macatawa Bank Corporation. On August 1, the parties jointly announced the completion of their previously announced merger whereby Wintrust acquired Macatawa in an all-stock transaction.

Macatawa was the parent company of Macatawa Bank, which is headquartered in Holland, Michigan and operates a network of 26 full-service branches located throughout communities in Kent, Ottawa and northern Allegan counties, including Grand Rapids. For more information about the transaction, please click here.

Wintrust, headquartered in Rosemont, Ill., is a financial holding company with assets of approximately $62 billion whose common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. ArentFox Schiff is proud to represent Wintrust as M&A counsel since 2001.

The AFS deal team for the transaction was led by Jason L. Zgliniec, and included Mike Ragan, Emily P. Caylor, and Lucia Lorenz (Corporate), Olga Bogush (Tax), Brian A. Friederich (Benefits), Brett Cooper (Real Estate), David M. Loring (Environmental), and Matthew Galo.

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