STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENTStock Purchase Agreement • September 21st, 2004 • Financial Edge Fund L P • State commercial banks • Massachusetts
STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of September 13, 2004 between Central Bancorp, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (“Central Bancorp”), and the Central Co-operative Bank Employee Stock Ownership Trust (the “ESOP,” and together with Central Bancorp, the “Purchasers”), on the one hand, and PL Capital, LLC (“PL Capital”), Financial Edge Fund, L.P., Financial Edge-Strategic Fund, L.P., Goodbody/PL Capital, L.P., Goodbody/PL Capital, LLC, Richard Lashley, John W. Palmer and Richard J. Fates on the other hand (each a “Seller” and collectively, the “Sellers” or the “PL Capital Parties”) on behalf of themselves and their respective affiliates (the Purchasers and the PL Capital Parties together, collectively, the “Parties”).
