Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • June 27th, 2024 • Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. /NY/ • National commercial banks
Dime Community Bancshares, Inc., a New York corporation (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, (i) to issue and sell to the underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (each, an “Underwriter” and, collectively, the “Underwriters”), for whom Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (“Raymond James”), and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (“KBW”) are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), $65,000,000 aggregate principal amount (the “Initial Securities”) of its 9.000% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due 2034, and (ii) to grant the Underwriters the option described in Section 2(b) hereof to purchase all or any part of $9,750,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes (the “Option Securities,” and together with the Initial Securities, the “Notes”) to cover overallotments, if any. The Notes will be issued pursuant to a Subordinated Indenture, dated as of May 6, 2022, and a Second Supplemental Indenture to be dated as of June 28, 2024 (collectively, t
