0001104659-15-085915.txt : 20160127 0001104659-15-085915.hdr.sgml : 20160127 20151221084606 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-15-085915 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20151221 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GERMAN AMERICAN BANCORP, INC. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000714395 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022] IRS NUMBER: 351547518 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 711 MAIN ST STREET 2: P O BOX 810 CITY: JASPER STATE: IN ZIP: 47546 BUSINESS PHONE: 8124821314 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 711 MAIN STREET CITY: JASPER STATE: IN ZIP: 47546 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: GERMAN AMERICAN BANCORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19950510 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: GAB BANCORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19950510 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm

 

December 21, 2015

 

VIA EDGAR

 

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Office of Financial Services

Attn: Dietrich A. King, Assistant Director

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549

 

Re:                             German American Bancorp, Inc.

Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on November 23, 2015, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on December 7, 2015, as amended by Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed on December 17, 2015

File No. 333-208176

 

Dear Mr. King:

 

This letter will serve as our formal request, pursuant to Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, to accelerate the effectiveness of the above referenced Registration Statement on Form S-4 to 10:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, on December 23, 2015, or as soon thereafter as practicable.

 

German American Bancorp, Inc. (“German American”) acknowledges that:

 

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

 

·                  German American 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.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

GERMAN AMERICAN BANCORP, INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Mark A. Schroeder

 

 

 

Mark A. Schroeder

 

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer