0001214659-12-004711.txt : 20121026 0001214659-12-004711.hdr.sgml : 20121026 20121026205417 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001214659-12-004711 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20121018 FILED AS OF DATE: 20121026 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20121026 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GRAMIGNA EDWARD A JR CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001561040 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-16197 FILM NUMBER: 121165505 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O PEAPACK GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORP STREET 2: 500 HILLS DRIVE, SUITE 300 CITY: BEDMINSTER STATE: NJ ZIP: 07921-1538 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PEAPACK GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001050743 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COMMERCIAL BANKS, NEC [6029] IRS NUMBER: 223537895 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NJ FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 158 ROUTE 206 NORTH CITY: GLADSTONE STATE: NJ ZIP: 07934 BUSINESS PHONE: 9082340700 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 158 ROUTE 206 NORTH CITY: GLADSTONE STATE: NJ ZIP: 07934 3 1 marketforms-7711.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0206 3 2012-10-18 0 0001050743 PEAPACK GLADSTONE FINANCIAL CORP PGC 0001561040 GRAMIGNA EDWARD A JR 500 HILLS DRIVE P.O. BOX 700 BEDMINSTER NJ 07921 true false false false Common Stock 650 D Exhibit 24 ? Power of Attorney /s/ Edward A. Gramigna, Jr., by Jeffrey J. Carfora as Attorney-in-Fact for Edward A. Gramigna, Jr 2012-10-26 EX-24 2 poa.htm POA DOCUMENT

      POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
each of Jeffrey J. Carfora, Finn M.W. Caspersen, Jr., Ronald H. Janis, Michael
T. Rave and Ellen S. Knarr, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:  (i) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the
undersigned's capacity as an officer and director of Peapack-Gladstone Financial
Corporation, a New Jersey corporation (the "Company"), a Form ID and Forms 3, 4,
and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
and the rules thereunder; (ii) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf
of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute
any such Form ID or Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such form with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar
authority; and (iii) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection
with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it
being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf
of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and
shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in
such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact's substitute or
substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of
attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges
that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request
of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this _24th_ day of October, 2012.

/s/ Edward A. Gramigna Jr.
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Edward A. Gramigna Jr.