Pacific Western Bank Acquires CIVIC

Pacific Western Bank acquired Civic Financial Services (CIVIC), a Redondo Beach, CA-based private lender focused on residential business-purpose loans, from Wedgewood.

February 3, 2021 Civic Financial Services | Matt Wagner | Pacific Western Bank | Wedgewood | William Tessar Phil Neuffer

Pacific Western Adds Fricke as SVP, BDO for ABL Team in North Texas

Melinda Fricke joined Pacific Western Bank as a senior vice president and business development officer for its asset-based lending team. Fricke previously worked for Crestmark Bank, Summit Financial, Wells Fargo Business Credit, Fremont Financial Business Credit/FINOVA and First Community Financial.

January 19, 2021 Asset Based Lending | Matt Lernor | Melinda Fricke | Pacific Western Bank Phil Neuffer

Blaeser Joins Pacific Western Bank as SVP, Business Development Officer on ABL Team

Scott Blaeser joined Pacific Western Bank’s asset-based lending team in Denver as senior vice president and business development officer for the Intermountain region. Blaeser most recently served as vice president of business development at Crestmark.

October 29, 2020 Celtic Capital | Crestmark | First Community Financial | Fremont Financial Business Credit/FINOVA | GE Capital – Business Credit | Matt Lernor | Pacific Western Bank | Scott Blaeser Ellie Delany

Goldman Sachs, Pacific Western, Valley Provide $100MM Directed Capital Facilities

Directed Capital closed on a $40 million credit facility from Pacific Western Bank and received a combined $60 million in two other separate credit facilities from Goldman Sachs Bank ($40 million) and Valley Bank ($20 million).

September 24, 2020 Directed Capital | Goldman Sachs Bank | Pacific Western Bank | Valley Bank Rita Garwood

Pacific Western Promotes Lynden to President of Venture Banking

Pacific Western Bank promoted Sean Lynden to president of its venture banking group. Lynden has been affiliated with Pacific Western Bank since 2015 and previously served as EVP of technology venture banking.

June 29, 2020 Frank Tower | Mark Yung | Pacific Western Bank | Sean Lynden Phil Neuffer

Pacific Western Bank Hires Hall as EVP, Products & Partnerships

Taira Hall joined Pacific Western Bank as the executive vice president of products and partnerships. Hall previously worked at Visa Business Solutions, Citigroup and Deloitte Consulting.

April 17, 2020 Citigroup | Deloitte Consulting | Mark Yung | Pacific Western Bank | Taira Hall | Visa Business Solutions Phil Neuffer

Pacific Western Provides Facility for FirstClose

FirstClose completed a credit facility with Pacific Western Bank.

November 13, 2019 FirstClose | Pacific Western Bank | Westlake Securities nadine

Pacific Western Hires Lorenz as Colorado Market President

Jonathan Lorenz joined Pacific Western Bank as Colorado market president. He will be located in the bank’s Greenwood Village, CO, executive offices.

January 21, 2019 Jonathan Lorenz | Matt Wagner | Pacific Western Bank Terry Mulreany

Square 1 Bank Provides $5MM Facility to Voci Technologies

Square 1 Bank provided a $5 million credit facility to new client Voci Technologies, a provider of speech analytics platform technology for enterprises.

August 29, 2018 Anthony Gadient | Mac Wheatley | Pacific Western Bank | Square 1 Bank | Voci Technologies ABF Journal

Capital One Agents $80MM DTT Facility

DTT closed an $80 million debt facility led by administrative agent Capital One and CapitalSource, a division of Pacific Western Bank.

January 11, 2018 Capital One | CapitalSource | DTT | John Robuck | LP Innovations | Pacific Western Bank Amanda Koprowski