Section 5801 Of Article 8. Holding Companies And Stock Acquisitions From California Financial Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 8.
5801
. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person may
become a savings and loan holding company, or thereafter register
under Section 5804, unless the commissioner approves a completed
application. The application shall be in a form prescribed by the
commissioner, contain the following information and any additional
information that the commissioner may determine by regulation or by
written instructions to be necessary or appropriate to preserve the
public interest, the integrity of the state's savings association
system, and to protect the interests of savings account holders,
borrowers, and stockholders resident in this state:
(1) The identity, experience, and financial and managerial
resources of each acquiring person by whom or on whose behalf the
application is made.
(2) The terms, conditions, and method of any proposed acquisition,
including copies of all tender offers used or to be used in
connection with any proposed acquisition of capital stock.
(3) The source, kind, and amount of the consideration used or to
be used in making the acquisition, and, if any part of the
consideration has been or is to be borrowed or otherwise obtained for
the purpose of making the acquisition, a description of the
transaction and the names of all participating persons.
(4) Any plans or proposals that any acquiring person may have to
liquidate or convert the association or savings and loan holding
company, to sell its assets or merge it with any company, to change
the number of its employees in this state or the terms and conditions
of their employment, or to make any other substantial change in its
business, corporate structure, management or employees upon becoming
a holding company.
(5) The names of those officers and directors that the acquiring
person proposes to install in any change of managements, and for each
of those officers and directors a financial statement, a description
of experience in savings association related matters, and a
statement as to whether the officer or director ever has been found
guilty of misrepresentation, fraud, or financial misdealings.
(6) If any tender offer, request or invitation for tenders or
other agreement to acquire control is proposed to be made by means of
a registration statement under the federal Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, or in circumstances requiring the disclosure of similar
information under the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, or in an application filed with the Office of Thrift
Supervision or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation requiring
similar disclosure, that registration statement or application may be
filed with the commissioner in lieu of the requirements of this
section.
(b) The commissioner may exempt any transaction from the operation
of this section if the commissioner determines that regulation of
the transaction is not necessary or appropriate.