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M&T Bank (MTB) to Acquire Wilmington Trust (WT) for over $350 million

Posted by Adam Ellis on Nov 1st, 2010 and filed under Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

m&t bank acquires wilmington trust

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Du Pont founded, Wilmington Trust Corporation of Delaware has agreed to allow M&T Bank Corporation to acquire them for $351 million in company stock. This is 46% less than they were valued at last week.

Wilmington Trust has been struggling quite a bit lately. They have reported 5 straight quarters of losses. They were about to report their 6th straight quarterly loss before the acquisition.

When asked about the acquisition, M&T Bank’s CEO Robert G. Wilmers said, “We are building an even more powerful franchise with strength and stability, scale and density and top-of-class products and services.”

At the time this article was written, M&T Bank Stock (NYSE MTB) was up 3.80% to $77.59 for the day.

Stock holders of Wilmington Trust (NYSE WL) look to lose approximately 46% of the money they had invested in the company, after the acquisition.

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