Nov 4 (Reuters) - First Merchants Corp FRME.O :
* FIRST MERCHANTS CORPORATION AND LEVEL ONE BANCORP, INC.
ANNOUNCE
SIGNING OF A DEFINITIVE MERGER AGREEMENT
* LEVEL ONE BANCORP INC - DEAL CURRENTLY VALUED AT
APPROXIMATELY
$323.5 MILLION
* LEVEL ONE BANCORP INC - UPON COMPLETION OF MERGER, LEVEL
ONE
BANK WILL MERGE WITH AND INTO FIRST MERCHANTS BANK
* LEVEL ONE BANCORP INC - SHAREHOLDERS OF LEVL WILL HAVE
RIGHT TO
RECEIVE 0.7167 SHARE OF FIRST MERCHANTS AND $10.17 IN CASH FOR
EACH SHARE OF LEVL
* LEVEL ONE BANCORP INC - IMPLIED MERGER CONSIDERATION FOR
EACH
SHARE OF LEVL COMMON STOCK IS $41.35 PER SHARE
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