UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS, INC.
     
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2009.
  File No. 333-___
 
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
     
Georgia
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
  58-1807304
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
P.O. Box 398
63 Highway 515
Blairsville, Georgia 30512

(Address of Issuer’s Principal Executive Offices)
United Community Banks, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Mr. Jimmy C. Tallent
President and Chief Executive Officer
P.O. Box 398
63 Highway 515
Blairsville, Georgia 30512
(706)785-2265

(Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
Copies to:
Mr. James W. Stevens
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
1100 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 2800
Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4530
(404) 815-6500
(404) 815-6555 (fax)
     Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large Accelerated Filer oAccelerated Filer þ Non-Accelerated Filer o
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Calculation of Registration Fee
                             
 
              Proposed Maximum     Proposed Maximum        
  Title of Securities     Amount to     Offering Price     Aggregate     Amount of  
  to be Registered     be Registered     Per Share     Offering Price     Registration Fee  
 
Common Stock
    500,000 (1)     $8.04(2)     $4,020,000     $224.32  
 
Participation Interests in United Community Banks, Inc
Profit Sharing Plan
    (3)     (4)     (4)     (4)  
 
(1)   Pursuant to Rule 416, this Registration Statement shall be deemed to cover any additional securities to be offered or issued from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.
 
(2)   Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act of 1933. The proposed maximum aggregate offering price and amount of registration fee are based on $8.04, the average of the high and low price on Nasdaq on June 12, 2009.
 
(3)   Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein.
 
(4)   Not applicable.

 


 

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     United Community Banks, Inc. (the “Company”) files this Registration Statement on Form S-8 in connection with the United Community Banks, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan (the “Plan”) to increase the number of shares of common stock that may be issued under the Plan. The shares authorized under the Plan have been increased by 500,000 shares. The Company previously filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-145027) (the “Previous Registration Statement”) covering 500,000 shares. The Previous Registration Statement continues and remains effective as to those shares registered thereunder.
INCORPORATION OF PRIOR REGISTRATION STATEMENT BY REFERENCE
     Pursuant to Instruction E to Form S-8, the Company hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the contents of the Previous Registration Statement, including all amendments, attachments and exhibits thereto.
PART II.     INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
     The exhibits included as part of this Registration Statement are as follows:
         
Exhibit Number   Description
  5       
Opinion of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
  23.1    
Consent of Porter Keadle Moore, LLP
  23.2    
Consent of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP (included on Exhibit 5)
  24       
Power of Attorney (included on the Signature Page of this Registration Statement)

 


 

SIGNATURES OF REGISTRANT
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Blairsville, State of Georgia, on June 15, 2009.
         
  UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS, INC.

 
 
  By:   /s/ Jimmy C. Tallent   
    Jimmy C. Tallent   
    President and Chief Executive Officer   
 
POWER OF ATTORNEY
     Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Jimmy C. Tallent and Robert L. Head, Jr., and either of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and to cause the same to be filed, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby granting to said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do so and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite or desirable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things that said attorneys-in-fact, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on June 15, 2009.
     
/s/ Jimmy C. Tallent
 
Jimmy C. Tallent
  President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Rex S. Schuette
 
Rex S. Schuette
  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Alan H. Kumler
 
Alan H. Kumler
  Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Robert L. Head, Jr.
 
Robert L. Head, Jr.
  Chairman of the Board
/s/ W.C. Nelson, Jr.
 
W.C. Nelson, Jr.
  Vice Chairman of the Board
/s/ A. William Bennett
 
A. William Bennett
  Director
/s/ Robert H. Blalock
 
Robert H. Blalock
  Director

 


 

     
/s/ Cathy Cox
 
Cathy Cox
  Director
/s/ Hoyt O. Holloway
 
Hoyt O. Holloway
  Director
/s/ John D. Stephens
 
John D. Stephens
  Director
/s/ Tim Wallis
 
Tim Wallis
  Director

 


 

SIGNATURE OF PLAN
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Tulsa, State of Oklahoma, on June 15, 2009.
         
  UNITED COMMUNITY BANK, INC. PROFIT SHARING PLAN

BY: INTRUST BANK, N.A.

 
 
  By:   /s/ John M. Goff    
    John M. Goff   
    Senior Vice President   

 


 

         
EXHIBIT INDEX
TO
REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8
         
Exhibit Number   Description
  5       
Opinion of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
  23.1    
Consent of Porter Keadle Moore, LLP
  23.2    
Consent of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP (included in Exhibit 5)
  24       
Power of Attorney (included on the Signature Page of this Registration Statement)