0000950123-05-012683 Sample Contracts

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER BY AND AMONG SOVEREIGN BANCORP, INC., ICELAND ACQUISITION CORP. AND INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY BANK CORP. DATED AS OF OCTOBER 24, 2005

Agreement and Plan of Merger • October 27th, 2005 • Independence Community Bank Corp • Savings institutions, not federally chartered • Delaware

• Contract Type
  Agreement and Plan of Merger
• Filed
  October 27th, 2005
• Company
  Independence Community Bank Corp
• Industry
  Savings institutions, not federally chartered
• Jurisdiction
  Delaware

This AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER, dated as of October 24, 2005 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), is entered into by and among SOVEREIGN BANCORP, INC., a Pennsylvania corporation (“Sovereign”), ICELAND ACQUISITION CORP., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Sovereign (“Merger Sub”), and INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY BANK CORP., a Delaware corporation (“ICBC”).