UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT

TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of report: May 11, 2009

(date of earliest event report)

 

SCBT Financial Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

South Carolina

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

 

 

(800) 277-2175

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

n/a

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o    Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o    Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o    Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o    Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 

Item 8.01 Other Events.

 

On May 11, 2009, SCBT Financial Corporation issued a press release announcing that it intends to offer and sell 1,150,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering through Keefe, Bruyette & Woods and Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P.  The shares will be issued pursuant to a prospectus supplement filed as part of an existing shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form S-3.

 

SCBT Financial Corporation also announced that it provided notice to the U.S. Treasury on April 30, 2009 seeking permission to redeem all of its shares of Series T Preferred Stock, which was issued to the Treasury as part of the Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program.

 

A copy of the press release is included as exhibit 99.1 to this report and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 9.01.		Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)		Exhibits
99.1		Press Release, dated May 11, 2009, of SCBT Financial Corporation

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

	SCBT FINANCIAL CORPORATION
Dated: May 11, 2009	By:	/s/ John C. Pollok
		John C. Pollok
		Senior Executive Vice President and
		Chief Financial Officer

 

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