Feb 18 (Reuters) - Lakeland Bancorp Inc LBAI.O :
* To acquire harmony bank
* Transaction is valued at approximately $32.0 million,
* Transaction is valued at 12.79 per share
* Transaction is expected to be approximately 1% accretive to Lakeland
bancorp's earnings per share in 2017
* Merger agreement provides shareholders of harmony bank will receive 1.25
shares of Lakeland Bancorp for each share of harmony bank
* Transaction is expected to be approximately 0.5% dilutive to tangible book
value with an estimated earnback in approximately 3.5 years
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