SAN DIEGO, Feb. 28, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- 1st Pacific Bancorp (Nasdaq:FPBN), the holding company for 1st Pacific Bank of California, today announced plans to participate in a Southern California Banking Panel at the Sandler O'Neill & Partners 2008 West Coast Financial Services Conference. Vince Siciliano, president and chief executive officer, and the rest of the panel will present on Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.
The conference, which begins on March 10 at the Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco, will be available in its entirety, both live and via 30-day replay, at www.sandleroneill.com.
About 1st Pacific Bancorp
1st Pacific Bancorp is the holding company for 1st Pacific Bank of California, San Diego's leading local business bank. The bank offers a full complement of business products and services to meet the financial needs of professional firms, small- to mid-sized businesses, their owners and the people who work there. Including its recent acquisition of Landmark National Bank, 1st Pacific Bank has a total of eight banking offices located in San Diego County: one each in the University Towne Center area, the Tri-Cities area of Oceanside, Mission Valley, the Inland North County, El Cajon, La Jolla Village, Solana Beach and downtown San Diego. For additional information, visit the company's website at www.1stpacbank.com.
About Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P.
Founded in 1988, Sandler O'Neill & Partners is a full-service investment banking firm dedicated to providing comprehensive, innovative advisory and transaction execution services to the financial industry. The firm specializes in strategic business planning, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, mutual-to-stock conversions, investment portfolio and interest rate risk management, fixed income securities transactions and mortgage finance restructurings. Sandler O'Neill also is a market maker in hundreds of financial stocks and publishes equity and fixed income research focused on selected banks, thrifts and insurance companies, credit card companies, investment banks, asset managers, specialty finance companies, e-finance companies and transaction execution companies. Additional information about Sandler O'Neill can be found on the firm's Web site at www.sandleroneill.com.