Company: WAL-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001212545-25-000115
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Company: WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 3.02
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 including, without limitation, voting rights with respect to any amendment to BW’s certificate of incorporation that would be adverse to any of the rights, preferences or privileges of the Series B Preferred Stock.

The joint bookrunning managers for the offering of the Series B Preferred Stock were J. P. Morgan Securities LLC, MUFG Securities Americas Inc. and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. The offering was made pursuant to exemptions from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Act”), in accordance with Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Act.

The foregoing summary of the Series B Preferred Stock is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Certificate of Designation, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 9.01. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.

(d) Exhibits.

  1.1      Purchase Agreement, dated March 24, 2025, by and among Western Alliance Bancorporation, Western Alliance Bank, and BW Real Estate, Inc., and J. P. Morgan Securities LLC and MUFG Securities Amer...  
  4.1      Certificate of Amendment to the BW Real Estate, Inc. Articles of Incorporation establishing the Certificate of Designation of the BW Real Estate Inc. 9.500% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Exch...  
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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.

  WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION      
  (Registrant)                         
  /s/ Dale Gibbons                     
  Dale Gibbons                         
  Interim Chief Executive Officer and  
  Executive Vice President and         
  Chief Financial Officer              
  March 27, 2025