Section 4885 Of Article 1. Merger Into California State Depository Corporation From California Financial Code >> Division 1.6. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 1.
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. If the commissioner finds all of the following with respect
to an application for approval of a merger, the commissioner shall
approve the application:
(a) That the merger will not result in a monopoly and will not be
in furtherance of any combination or conspiracy to monopolize or to
attempt to monopolize the banking, savings association, or industrial
loan business in any part of this state.
(b) That the merger will not have the effect in any section of
this state of substantially lessening competition, tending to create
a monopoly, or otherwise being in restraint of trade, or that the
anticompetitive effect is clearly outweighed in the public interest
by the probable effect of the merger in meeting the convenience and
needs of the community to be served.
(c) That the shareholders' equity of the surviving depository
corporation will be adequate and that the financial condition of the
surviving depository corporation will be satisfactory.
(d) That the directors and executive officers of the surviving
depository corporation will be satisfactory.
(e) That the surviving depository corporation will afford
reasonable promise of successful operation and that it is reasonable
to believe that the surviving depository corporation will be operated
in a safe and sound manner and in compliance with all applicable
laws.
(f) That the merger will be fair, just, and equitable. For
purposes of this subdivision, in the case of any term of the merger
that has been determined by agreement between the disappearing
depository corporation and the surviving depository corporation in an
arm's length transaction, the commissioner shall find that the term
is fair, just, and equitable to the disappearing depository
corporation and the surviving depository corporation.
(g) In the case of a merger where the disappearing depository
corporation is a California savings association, that the merger will
not have a seriously adverse effect on the total availability of
financing for housing in any market area of the disappearing savings
association in this state or that any effect of that type is clearly
outweighed in the public interest by the probable effect of the
merger in meeting the convenience and needs of the community to be
served. Nothing in this subdivision authorizes the commissioner to
require the surviving depository corporation to make financing for
housing available.
If the commissioner finds otherwise, the commissioner shall deny
the application for approval of the merger.