§537. Emergency acquisitions

A. The commissioner may approve any acquisition of a Louisiana bank that will be lawful under the provisions of R.S. 6:535, if all the following exist with respect to the Louisiana bank:

(1) It has an adjusted capital to assets ratio of less than four percent, according to the latest examination by the office of financial institutions or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

(2) It is the conclusion of the commissioner that the bank has major and serious problems or unsafe and unsound conditions which are not being satisfactorily addressed or resolved.

(3) It is the conclusion of the commissioner that the bank has a high potential for failure, although failure is not necessarily imminent.

B.(1) When the conservator has commenced the liquidation of a state bank under R.S. 6:391, the commissioner may authorize the formation of a new bank by a Louisiana or out-of-state bank holding company when a new bank will be used in a purchase and assumption or other transfer of assets and liabilities of a failed bank to maintain banking service to the community and prevent any loss on deposits of the failed bank.

(2) However, the following provisions shall govern the bid procedure in such a circumstance:

(a) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shall set minimum bid requirements for assets and liabilities of the failed bank.

(b) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's calculations and estimates of the minimum bid requirements shall be determinative.

(c) Bids for such assets and liabilities may be solicited from in-state banks, Louisiana bank holding companies, Louisiana multi-bank holding companies, individuals, groups of individuals, and out-of-state banks, out-of-state bank holding companies, out-of-state multi-bank holding companies, individuals and groups of individuals.

(d) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation may solicit such bids as are practicable from prospective purchasers or merger partners it determines, in its sole discretion, are both qualified and capable of acquiring assets and liabilities of the bank.

(e) If the minimum bid requirements are met by any of such entities, the bank shall be acquired by the bidder whose bid was determined by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in its sole discretion, to be the least costly and most acceptable bid from among those submitted.

(f)-(i) Repealed by Acts 1989, No. 686, §2, eff. July 7, 1989.

Acts 1986, No. 577, §1, eff. July 2, 1986; Acts 1989, No. 686, §§1 and 2, eff. July 7, 1989; Acts 1995, No. 1249, §1.