First Financial Northwest, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ GS: FFNW), the holding company for First Financial Northwest Bank (the “Bank”), announced that the preliminary vote count indicates that its shareholders approved the Purchase and Assumption Agreement, dated January 10, 2024, by and among the Company, the Bank and Global Federal Credit Union (“Global”), which provides for Global’s acquisition of substantially all of the assets and assumption of substantially all of the liabilities (including deposit liabilities) of the Bank (the “asset sale”). Based on the preliminary vote counts, shareholders also approved a proposal to voluntarily dissolve the Company and distribute its net assets following the completion of the asset sale and approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or may become payable to certain executive officers of the Company in connection with the asset sale. Final voting results of the special meeting of shareholders held on July 19, 2024, will be filed by the Company on a Form 8-K within four business days.
The Bank previously received required regulatory approvals from the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions in connection with the asset sale and Bank liquidation, but consummation of the asset sale remains subject to the required regulatory approvals from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) and the National Credit Union Administration (“NCUA”), which have not yet been obtained. The Company cannot provide any assurance as to whether they will obtain the required final regulatory approvals from the FDIC and the NCUA, when such approvals will be received, or whether there will be conditions in such approvals that are unacceptably burdensome to the Company or Global.
First Financial Northwest, Inc. is the parent company of First Financial Northwest Bank; an FDIC insured Washington State-chartered commercial bank headquartered in Renton, Washington, serving the Puget Sound Region through 15 full-service banking offices.
