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EXHIBIT 5(a) and 23(a)
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Judiciary Plaza
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Old Kent Financial Corporation
Registration Statement on Form S-8
Old Kent Financial Corporation
Stock Option Plan For Optionholders of
Pinnacle Banc Group, Inc.
Dear Sir or Madam:
We represent Old Kent Financial Corporation, a Michigan corporation (the "Company"), with respect to the above-captioned registration statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement") filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act") to register 88,840 shares of the Company's common stock, $1 par value ("Common Stock").
As counsel for the Company, we are familiar with its Restated Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws and have reviewed the various proceedings taken by the Company to authorize the issuance of the Common Stock to be sold pursuant to the Registration Statement. We also have reviewed and assisted in preparing the Registration Statement. In our review, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such copies.
On the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that, when the Registration Statement has become effective under the Act, any and all shares of Common Stock that are the subject of the Registration Statement will, when issued upon exercise of stock options under the above-captioned plan according to their terms and payment of the purchase price therefore to the Company, be legally issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
| WARNER NORCROSS & JUDD LLP | |
| By /s/ Gordon R. Lewis |
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| Gordon R. Lewis | |
| A Partner |
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