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Located in Irvine, California, Plaza Bank is a $351 million community bank formed in 2005 to provide commercial banking, SBA lending and asset-based lending for area businesses. CCBF made a control investment in 2009 and installed new management with experience managing significantly larger banks. Plaza Bank has locations in Irvine, San Diego and Ontario, California, and in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Bridge Bank, National Association, is Silicon Valley’s full-service professional business bank.  Headquartered in San Jose, California, Bridge Bank has $1.1 billion in assets and is dedicated to meeting the financial needs of small and middle market companies, and emerging and technology businesses, in Silicon Valley, California, and the Nation.  Bridge Bank provides its clients with a comprehensive package of business banking solutions delivered through experienced, professional business bankers.

Mission Community Bank is a $235 million bank that has been the recipient of numerous grants for its success in small business lending and community development banking. CCBF has a majority ownership position in Mission Community Bank made through two control investments in 2008 and 2010. The bank is headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California.

Professional Business Bank is a $250 million bank that serves small and middle market businesses in the San Gabriel Valley, home to the largest concentration of manufacturing businesses in the state.  CCBF made a control investment in predecessor California General Bank in 2009 and acquired controlling interest in Professional Business Bank through the merger of these institutions in 2010. Professional Business Bank is headquartered in Pasadena with branch locations in Glendale and Montebello.

The Bank of Manhattan is a $147 million community bank based in El Segundo, California that specializes in commercial and mortgage banking in the South Bay. The bank’s parent company, Manhattan Bancorp, also operates a broker/dealer capital markets group with expertise in the buying and selling of mortgage loans and the trading of mortgage backed securities. CCBF made its control investment in the Bank of Manhattan in December 2008.

*Note: In the case of Bridge Bank, Mission Community Bank, and Bank of Manhattan, the Fund’s actual investment is in the parent companies of these banks.