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Carver Bancorp, Inc.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Robert PatrickCooper
[email protected]
(617) 457-4415
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
LEADING PROXY ADVISORY FIRM RECOMMENDS
CARVER BANCORP SHAREHOLDERS VOTE TO
REPLACE INCUMBENT NOMINEES WITH
BOSTON BANK OF COMMERCE NOMINEES.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, February 18, 2000 -Boston Bank of Commerce (BBOC)
announced today that Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading proxy
advisory firm, has recommended that its clients who are holders of Carver
Bancorp (Amex: CNY) support the BBOC nominees for election to Carver's Board.
The Carver annual meeting of shareholders is scheduled for February 24, 2000.
The ISS report stated: "[W]e conclude that shareholders would be best
served by electing the dissident nominees in this year's election. Mr.
Cohee and Ms. Williams will bring a proven track record, demonstrated
expertise, and a high level of energy to a board that faces the daunting
task of restoring Carver's profitability in an era of rapid change and
competition in the financial services arena. Furthermore, we believe that
the current board has seriously erred in failing to raise the significant
governance issues raised by the Provender/Morgan Stanley transaction. The
only easy way to remove the resulting appearance of impropriety, we
believe, and to ease concerns that the board and management are unduly
entrenched, is to promptly add outside directors. While Mr. Cohee and Ms.
Williams are imperfect candidates, largely because of their potential
conflicts of interest, we nonetheless conclude that their election is
preferable to retention of the incumbents."
Institutional Shareholder Services, based in Rockville, MD is a leading proxy
voting advisor to several hundred banks, pension funds, money managers and other
institutional investors regarding proxy voting, corporate governance proposals
and other shareholder-related issues.
Boston Bank of Commerce, which is the only African-American owned interstate
bank in the country and the beneficial owner of 170,700 shares of Carver's
common stock is seeking two board seats on Carver's eight-person board.
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