RED BANK, N.J. and SALISBURY, Md., Nov. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OceanFirst Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:OCFC) (“OceanFirst”), parent company of OceanFirst Bank N.A. (“OceanFirst Bank”), and Partners Bancorp (NASDAQ: PTRS) (“Partners”), parent company of The Bank of Delmarva (and its division, Liberty Bell Bank), headquartered in Seaford, Delaware, and Virginia Partners Bank (and its division Maryland Partners Bank), headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger pursuant to which Partners will merge into OceanFirst, with OceanFirst surviving. Upon completion of the Partners merger, The Bank of Delmarva and Virginia Partners Bank will each successively merge into OceanFirst Bank, with OceanFirst Bank surviving each bank merger. Based on OceanFirst’s closing stock price on November 3, 2021 of $23.21, the transaction is valued at approximately $10.38 per Partners common share, or approximately $186 million in the aggregate.
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