Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

ACQUISITIONS

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ACQUISITIONS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Business Combinations [Abstract]  
ACQUISITIONS
ACQUISITIONS
 
StellarOne
On January 1, 2014, the Company completed the acquisition of StellarOne, a bank holding company based in Charlottesville, Virginia, in an all-stock transaction. StellarOne’s common shareholders received 0.9739 shares of the Company’s common stock in exchange for each share of StellarOne’s common stock, resulting in the Company issuing 22,147,874 shares of common stock at a fair value of $549.5 million. As a result of the transaction, StellarOne’s former bank subsidiary, StellarOne Bank, became a wholly owned bank subsidiary of the Company. On May 9, 2014, StellarOne Bank was merged with and into the Bank.
 
Acquisition-related expenses associated with the acquisition of StellarOne were $20.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2014.   Such costs included legal and accounting fees, lease and contract termination expenses, system conversion, operations integration, and employee severances, which were expensed as incurred. The Company did not have any acquisition-related expenses in 2015 and no material expenses in 2016. 

A summary of acquisition-related expenses associated with the StellarOne acquisition included on the Consolidated Statements of Income is as follows (dollars in thousands): 

 
For the year ended
December 31,
 
2014
Salaries and employee benefits
$
7,875

Professional services
3,736

Other costs of operations
8,734

Total
$
20,345


 
ODCM
On May 31, 2016, the Bank completed its acquisition of ODCM, a Charlottesville, Virginia based registered investment advisor with nearly $300.0 million in assets under management at the time of the acquisition. The acquisition date fair value of consideration transferred totaled $9.1 million, which consisted of $4.1 million in cash, $453,000 in stock, and the remainder being subject to a three-year earn out provision and contingent on achieving certain performance metrics. The contingent consideration is carried at fair value and is reported as a component of “Other Liabilities” on the Consolidated Balance Sheet. The fair value of this liability will be assessed at each reporting period. In connection with the transaction, the Company recorded $4.7 million in goodwill and $4.5 million of amortizable assets, which primarily relate to the value of customer relationships. The Company is amortizing these intangibles assets over the period of expected benefit, which ranges from 5 to 10 years using a straight-line method. The transaction was accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting and, accordingly, assets acquired, liabilities assumed, and consideration exchanged were recorded at estimated fair values on the acquisition date. The fair values are subject to refinement for up to one year after the closing date of the acquisition. The Company did not incur any material expenses related to the acquisition of ODCM.

Fair Value Premiums and Discounts
The net effect of the amortization and accretion of premiums and discounts associated with the Company’s acquisition accounting adjustments had the following impact on the Consolidated Statements of Income during the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015, and 2014 (dollars in thousands):
 
For the years ended
December 31,
 
2016
 
2015
 
2014
Loans (1)
$
5,218

 
$
4,355

 
$
586

Core deposit intangible (2)
(6,930
)
 
(8,445
)
 
(9,795
)
Borrowings (3)
458

 
424

 
550

Time deposits (4)

 
1,843

 
8,914

Other amortizable intangibles (2)
(280
)
 

 

Net impact to income before taxes
$
(1,534
)
 
$
(1,823
)
 
$
255

(1) Loan discount accretion is included in "Interest and fees on loans" in the "Interest and dividend income" section of the Company's Consolidated Statements of Income.
(2) Core deposit and other intangible premium amortization is included in "Amortization of intangible assets" in the "Noninterest expense" section of the Company's Consolidated Statements of Income.
(3) Borrowings premium accretion is included in "Interest on long-term borrowings" in the "Interest Expense" section of the Company's Consolidated Statements of Income.
(4) Certificate of deposit discount accretion is included in "Interest on deposits" in the "Interest expense" section of the Company's Consolidated Statements of Income.