0001104659-13-008145.txt : 20130404 0001104659-13-008145.hdr.sgml : 20130404 20130206215347 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-13-008145 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20130206 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PACWEST BANCORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001102112 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021] IRS NUMBER: 330885320 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6110 EL TORDO CITY: RANCHO SANTA FE STATE: CA ZIP: 92067 BUSINESS PHONE: 8587563023 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 275 NORTH BREA BLVD CITY: BREA STATE: CA ZIP: 92821 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FIRST COMMUNITY BANCORP /CA/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19991229 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm

 

[PacWest Bancorp Letterhead]

 

February 6, 2013

 

VIA EDGAR

 

Mr. Mark S. Webb

Legal Branch Chief

United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Re:          PacWest Bancorp Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-4
Filed February 6, 2013 and Documents Incorporated by Reference
File No. 333-185356

 

Dear Mr. Webb:

 

PacWest Bancorp (the “Company”) hereby requests that the effectiveness under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of the above-captioned Registration Statement on Form S-4, as amended, be accelerated to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 8, 2013, or as soon thereafter as practicable.

 

In connection with the foregoing request for acceleration of effectiveness, the Company hereby acknowledges the following:

 

·                                          should the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing;

 

·                                          the action of the Commission or staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and

 

·                                          the Company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

 


 

Please contact Matthew M. Guest of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz at (212) 403-1341 with any questions you may have concerning this request.  In addition, please notify Mr. Guest when this request for acceleration has been granted.

 

 

PACWEST BANCORP

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Jared M. Wolff

 

 

Jared M. Wolff

 

 

Executive Vice President and

 

 

General Counsel

 

 

cc:  Matthew M. Guest, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

 

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