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National Penn Completes $150 million Investment From Warburg Pincus

^{Published on 2011-01-07 16:55:38 - Market Wire}
 

BOYERTOWN, Pa.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--National Penn Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: NPBC) announced that Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm, today invested the remaining $86.7 million in National Penn common stock, with the purchase of 14,330,579 newly issued common shares. This completed its $150 million total investment in National Penn announced on October 6, 2010. As a result, Warburg Pincus now owns approximately 16.4% of National Penna™s common stock.

As previously announced, Michael E. Martin, Managing Director and Co-Head of Warburg Pincusa™ Financial Services Group, will be appointed to National Penna™s board of directors after receipt of all regulatory approvals that are part of this transaction.

About National Penn Bancshares, Inc.:

National Penn Bancshares, Inc., with approximately $9 billion in assets, is a bank holding company based in Pennsylvania. Headquartered in Boyertown, National Penn operates 124 community banking offices in Pennsylvania and one office in Maryland through National Penn Bank and its HomeTowne Heritage Bank, KNBT and Nittany Bank divisions.

National Penna™s financial services affiliates consist of National Penn Wealth Management, N.A., including its National Penn Investors Trust Company division; National Penn Capital Advisors, Inc.; Institutional Advisors LLC; National Penn Insurance Services Group, Inc., including its Higgins Insurance division; and Caruso Benefits Group, Inc.

National Penn Bancshares, Inc. common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol aNPBCa. Please visit our Web site at [ www.nationalpennbancshares.com ] to see our regularly posted material information.

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National Penna™s business and operations are subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors. Consequently, actual results and experience may materially differ from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results and experience to differ from those projected include, but are not limited to, increased capital requirements mandated by National Penna™s regulators, National Penna™s ability to raise capital, variations in interest rates, continued deterioration in the credit quality of certain loans, the effect of credit risk exposure, declines in the value of National Penna™s assets, recent and ongoing changes to the state and federal regulatory schemes under which National Penn and other financial services companies operate, competition from other financial institutions, interruptions or breaches of National Penna™s security systems, and the development and maintenance of National Penna™s information technology. These risks and others are described in greater detail in National Penna™s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, as well as National Penna™s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed by National Penn with the SEC after the date thereof. National Penn makes no commitment to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances occurring or existing after the date any forward-looking statement is made.