Level One Bank, a subsidiary of Level One Bancorp Inc., has entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with the FDIC and assumed all of the deposits and purchased essentially all of the assets of Paramount Bank

The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation seized Farmington Hills, Michigan-based Paramount Bank, a unit of Paramount Bancorp Inc., on December 10, 2010 and named the FDIC receiver in a failure estimated to cost the federal agency’s deposit insurance fund $90.2 million.

The FDIC signed a purchase and assumption agreement with Farmington Hills, Michigan-based Level One Bancorp Inc. unit, Level One Bank, to buy all of the deposits at zero premium and “essentially all” of the assets of the failed bank. Paramount Bank had about $252.7 million in total assets and $213.6 million in total deposits at September 30, 2010. Also, the FDIC and Level One Bank entered into a loss-share transaction on $233.1 million of Paramount Bank’s assets.

Paramount Bank’s branches reopened December 13 as branches of Level One Bank. Paramount Bank is the 150th FDIC-insured institution to fail in the U.S. in 2010, and the fifth in Michigan as of December 10, 2010.

In connection with this transaction, Level One Bancorp Inc. also raised $8 million of equity capital in a private placement. This amount is in addition to the $13.1 million of equity capital raised in June 2010. In addition to serving as exclusive financial advisor to Level One in its acquisition of Paramount Bank, DPP served as a participating sales agent for the June capital offering, as well as for the de novo offering in 2007.