** Nicolet Bankshares Inc NCBS.O agrees to buy Charter
Bankshares Inc in cash-and-stock deal
** Deal valued at $158 mln as per Nicolet's last close of
$94.4 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nPn17xhcYa
** Charter shareholders will receive $38.8 mln in cash and
1.26 mln shares of Nicolet under terms of deal
** Combined co will have $8.8 bln in pro-forma total assets
** Deal is expected to close in Q3 2022
** NCBS was up marginally at $95 in early trade
** YTD, NCBS up 10.8%
(Reporting by Sohini Podder in Bengaluru)
((sohini.podder@thomsonreuters.com))