# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000944745
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-220668
**Filing Date:** 2025-9
**Character Count:** 2468
**Document Hash:** c56e2c1e2766a6fccbc69549f906d67b
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-220668.hdr.sgml**: 20260130

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-220668

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250926

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000944745
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 341558688
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** OH
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** CORRESP

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 100 EAST WATER ST
- **STREET 2:** P O BOX 5016
- **CITY:** SANDUSKY
- **STATE:** OH
- **ZIP:** 44870
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 4196254121

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 100 EAST WATER ST
- **STREET 2:** P O BOX 5016
- **CITY:** SANDUSKY
- **STATE:** OH
- **ZIP:** 44870

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** FIRST CITIZENS BANC CORP /OH
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19950502

**CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC.** 

**100 East Water Street** 

**Sandusky, Ohio 44870** 

**(419) 625-4121** 

September 26, 2025

**<u>VIA EDGAR</u>**

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

Office of Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attention: Madeleine Joy Mateo

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| **Re:** | **Civista Bancshares, Inc.**  |

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**Registration Statement on Form S-4, as amended on September 26, 2025** 

**File No. 333-290157** 

Dear Madeleine Joy Mateo:

Pursuant to Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), Civista Bancshares, Inc. (the "Registrant") hereby respectfully requests that the effectiveness under the Securities Act of the above-captioned Registration Statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") be accelerated to, and that the Registration Statement be declared effective on, Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, or as soon thereafter as practicable.

The Registrant requests that notification of such declaration of effectiveness be made to Anthony D. Weis of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, our outside counsel, by telephone at (614) 464-5465 or via e-mail at <u>adweis@vorys.com</u>.

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| Sincerely, | Sincerely, |
| **CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC.** | **CIVISTA BANCSHARES, INC.** |
| By: | /s/ Dennis G. Shaffer |
|  | Dennis G. Shaffer |
|  | President and Chief Executive Officer |

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