Company: PNBK
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-017837
Chunk: 25

Company: PATRIOT NATIONAL BANCORP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 25
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ITEM 1. Business

General

Patriot National Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company” or “PNBK”), a Connecticut corporation, is a one-bank holding company for Patriot Bank, N.A, a national banking association headquartered in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut (the “Bank”) (collectively, “Patriot”). The Bank received its charter and commenced operations as a national bank on August 31, 1994. The Bank has a total of eight branch offices comprised of seven branch offices located in Fairfield and New Haven Counties, Connecticut and one branch office located in Westchester County, New York as of December 31, 2024.

On March 11, 2003, the Company formed Patriot National Statutory Trust I (the “Trust”) for the sole purpose of issuing trust preferred securities and investing the proceeds in subordinated debentures issued by the Company. The Company primarily invested the funds from the issuance of the debt in the Bank. The Bank used the proceeds to fund general operations.

On March 20, 2025, the Company entered into (i) securities purchase agreements (the “Co-Lead Investors Agreements”) with its President and director, Steven Sugarman (the “Lead Party”), and three co-lead investors (the “Co-Lead Investors”), and (ii) securities purchase agreements (the “Purchasers Agreements”, and together with the Co-Lead Investors Agreements, the “Securities Purchase Agreements”) with other accredited investors (collectively, and together with the Co-Lead Investors and the Lead Party, the “Purchasers”).

Also on March 20, 2025, the Company completed a $57.75 million private placement of: (i) shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), at a purchase price of $0.75 per share, and (ii) shares of a new series of the Company’s preferred stock, no par value per share, designated as Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), with a liquidation preference of $60 per share (the “Private Placement”).

The Private Placement included the issuance of: (i) 60,400,106 shares of Common Stock, and (ii) 90,832 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, convertible, in the aggregate, into 7,266,560 shares of Common Stock.

In addition, as part of