On October 21, 2021, Fenimore Kay Harrison client Business First Bancshares, Inc. announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Texas Citizens Bancorp, Inc. Pursuant to the agreement, Texas Citizens Bank, N.A., which is headquartered and has six branches in the Houston, Texas market, would merge with and into b1BANK, the subsidiary bank of Business First Bancshares, Inc. The combined institution is expected to have total consolidated assets of approximately $4.9 billion.
The transaction team for Fenimore Kay Harrison consisted of Lowell Harrison, Kevin Strachan, Caroline Melton, and Crystal Huffman.