0001104659-13-087825.txt : 20140121 0001104659-13-087825.hdr.sgml : 20140120 20131202122036 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-13-087825 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20131202 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

 

[Letterhead of PacWest Bancorp]

 

 

December 2, 2013

 

Via EDGAR

Kathryn McHale
Senior Staff Attorney

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 November 20, 2013
File No. 333-191130

 

Dear Ms. McHale:

 

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 12:00 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, December 4, 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 Patrick S. Brown of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP at (310) 712-6603 with any questions you may have concerning this request.  In addition, please notify Mr. Brown 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:                                Patrick S. Brown
                                                (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)

 

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