Edgar Filing: PATRIOT NATIONAL BANCORP INC

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Form 10-K Amendment No. 1

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K/A

Amendment No. 1

(Mark One)

x	ANNUAL REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011

¨	TRANSITION REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from to

Commission file number 000-29599

PATRIOT NATIONAL BANCORP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Connecticut

06-1559137

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

900 Bedford Street

Stamford, Connecticut 06901

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(203) 324-7500

Registrant’s telephone number

Securities registered under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:


Title of each class		Name of each exchange on which registered
None		None

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

Common stock, $.01 par value per share

(Title of class)

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ¨ No x

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act. Yes ¨ No x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes x No ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendments to this Form 10-K. x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ¨ No x

The aggregate market value of the common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was approximately $9,091,217 based on the last sale price of the common stock as of June 30, 2011 (the last business day of the most recently completed second fiscal quarter).

There were 38,467,073 shares of our Common Stock issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2012.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

None.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The annual report on Form 10-K of Patriot National Bancorp, Inc. (“Patriot”, “we”, “our”, “us”, or the “Company”) for the year ended December 31, 2011, was originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 29, 2012, and this Amendment No. 1 is being filed solely to include responses to the items required by Part III. This Amendment No. 1 does not reflect events occurring after March 29, 2012, the date of the filing of our original Form 10-K, or modify or update those disclosures that may have been affected by subsequent events.

As required by Rule 12b-15 promulgated under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer are providing Rule 13a-14(a) certifications dated April 30, 2012 in connection with this Form 10-K/A and written statements pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 dated April 30, 2012.

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PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance		4

Item 11. Executive Compensation		7

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters		10

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence		11

Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services		11
PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules		12

PART III

DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS,

AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Our executive officers and directors are as follows:


Name	Age	Position
Michael A. Carrazza	46	Chairman of the Board of Directors
Christopher D. Maher	45	President and Chief Executive Officer and Director
Robert F. O’Connell	63	Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director
Phillip W. Wolford	64	Secretary
Edward N. Constantino	64	Director
Kenneth T. Neilson	63	Director
Raymond B. Smyth	65	Director
Emile Van den Bol	47	Director
Michael Weinbaum	45	Director
Mark C. Foley	60	Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer

Background of Officers and Directors

Michael A. Carrazza

Mr. Carrazza has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since 2010. Through PNBK Sponsor, Mr. Carrazza manages PNBK Holdings, the Company’s largest shareholder. Mr. Carrazza is also founder and CEO of Solaia Capital Advisors, an investment management company specializing in the acquisition and operational enhancement of middle market businesses. In 2004, he co-founded Bard Capital Group where he sponsored several transactions in the industrial sector. Mr. Carrazza currently serves as a director of AmQuip Crane Rental. From 2001 until 2003, he was principal at The GlenRock Group, a middle market investment firm, where he structured and financed the buyout of International Surface Preparation Group, Inc. (“ISPC”) from U.S. Filter/Vivendi. He subsequently worked at ISPC as Vice President in the office of the Chairman, managing the company’s financings, restructure and subsequent sale in 2006.

Christopher D. Maher

Mr. Maher has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company since 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Maher was Executive Vice President and in charge of retail banking for Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. and the Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh since 2005, and was named EVP and Chief Retail Officer in January 2009. Mr. Maher’s banking experience includes work for several New York City metropolitan area banks, including The Dime Savings Bank of New York, Chemical Bank, and Chatham Savings. Mr. Maher was a Senior Vice President in the Retail Banking division of The Dime Savings Bank of New York, where he served from 1989 through 2000. Mr. Maher is a former Director of the IFX Forum, a financial services technology standards organization and serves as Chairman of The Board of Trustees for Helen Keller Services for the Blind, an organization he has served since 1998. In addition, Mr. Maher has served on the Board of Housing Development Fund since 2012.

Robert F. O’Connell

Mr. O’Connell has served as Patriot’s director and Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2001 and as Patriot’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2000 to 2001. He has also served as a director and Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Bank since 2001 and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Bank from 2000 to 2001. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. O’Connell served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of New Canaan Bank and Trust Company and Treasurer/Senior Financial Officer of its successor, Summit Bank, New Canaan, Connecticut. His banking and financial experience are valuable to the Board’s overall capabilities.

Philip W. Wolford

Mr. Wolford has served as Patriot’s Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary since October 2010. He has also served as Chief Operating Officer and Secretary of the Bank since September 2000. Mr. Wolford was Patriot’s President and Secretary from December 1999 until June 2000. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank from September 1994 until June 1999 and Secretary of the Bank from September 1998 until September 2000 and President of the Bank from August 1999 until September 2000. Mr. Wolford served as a director of Patriot from 1999 to 2010 and as a director of the Bank from 1994 to 2010. His long-tenure with the Bank as well as his banking and financial experience are valuable to the Board’s overall capabilities.

Edward N. Constantino

Mr. Constantino has over 40 years of audit, advisory and tax experience working for two major accounting firms, Arthur Anderson LLP and KPMG LLP. Mr. Constantino retired from KPMG in late 2009, where he was an Audit Partner in charge of the Firm’s real estate and asset management businesses. Mr. Constantino is a member of the Board of Directors of ARC Property Trust and a member of the Audit Committee of the New York City Housing Authority. Mr. Constantino also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Skadden Arps. Mr. Constantino’s specific skills include auditing national and multinational organizations, internal control and compliance, financial reporting, regulatory reporting, risk management, asset valuation, accounting and finance and transaction structuring. He is a licensed CPA, a Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a Member of the New York State Society of Public Accountants. He is currently a Member of the Board of Trustees and the Audit Committee Chairman of St. Francis College.

Kenneth T. Neilson

Mr. Neilson is the retired President, Chairman and CEO of Hudson United Bank and Hudson United Bancorp where he served for 23 years. After becoming President and CEO in 1989, Mr. Neilson led Hudson United Bancorp from a one state, 15 branch network with $500 million in assets, to a premiere franchise spanning four states with over 200 branch locations and an asset size of $9 billion by 2006 when it was sold to TD Banknorth. Mr. Neilson currently serves as a Board Member of Quinnipiac University.

Raymond Smyth

Mr. Smyth served as our director from November 2008 until 2010 and since 2011. He is a partner in the accounting firm of Masotti & Masotti. In addition, he is a CPA and a financial expert. His business experience together with his financial skills will be valuable to the Board’s overall capabilities.

Emile Van den Bol

Mr. Van den Bol is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Brooklawn Capital, LLC. Brooklawn Capital is an investment management company which advises and invests in securities. Mr. Van den Bol recently retired as Managing Director of the Commercial Real Estate Group of Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. Mr. Van den Bol joined Deutsche Bank in 2001 as Managing Director and held several executive positions of the Firm including Global Head Commercial Real Estate CDO Group and Member of the Global Commercial Real Estate Executive Committee. Mr. Van den Bol was from 2005 to 2009 a Governor of the Board of the Commercial Mortgage

Securities Association. From 1996 to 2001 Mr. Van den Bol was employed by Lehman Brothers where he held a number of positions including Head of Esoteric Principal Finance Group and Co-Head of Lehman Brothers Franchise Conduit. Mr. Van den Bol was a member of Morgan Stanley’s Structured Finance Group from 1991 to 1996.

Michael J. Weinbaum

Mr. Weinbaum has been the Vice President of Real Estate Operations for United Capital Corp. for more than twenty years. Mr. Weinbaum has extensive experience in real estate operations and transactions. He is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and has been a member of United Capital’s Board of Directors since 2005. Mr. Weinbaum currently serves on the Finance Board and Board of Trustees for St. Mary’s Healthcare for Children.

Mark C. Foley

Mr. Foley has been Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer since November, 2011. From 2010 to 2011 he was Chief Credit Officer at Herald National Bank. Prior to that he was Managing Director at Forensic Investigative Associates since 2004.

There are no family relationships among our executive officers and directors. None of our executive officers or directors has, during the past five years:

(a)

had any petition under the federal bankruptcy laws or any state insolvency law filed by or against, or a receiver, fiscal agent or similar officer appointed by a court for the business or property of, such person, or any partnership in which he was a general partner at or within two years before the time of such filing, or any corporation or business association of which he was an executive officer at or within two years before the time of such filing;

(b)

been convicted in a criminal proceeding or subject to a pending criminal proceeding;

(c)

been subject to any order, judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction or any federal or state authority, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities, futures, commodities or banking activities; or

(d)

been found by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the SEC or the Commodities Future Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended or vacated.

Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires the Company’s officers, directors and persons who own more than ten percent of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock to file reports of beneficial ownership and changes in beneficial ownership with the SEC and to furnish copies of all Section 16(a) forms to the Company. No Form 3 or 4 filings are known to be late for any of the directors, officers and beneficial owners of more than 10 percent of any class of equity securities of the Company in 2011 except for Mr. Neilson (two filings), Mr. Constantino (one filing) and Mr. Foley (one filing).

Nominations to the Board of Directors

Stockholders may recommend individuals to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors for consideration as potential director candidates by submitting their names, together with appropriate biographical information and background materials, to the Nominating Committee, c/o Corporate Secretary, Patriot National Bancorp, Inc., 900 Bedford Street, Stamford, Connecticut 06901.

Code of Ethics

We have a Code of Ethics that governs all of our employees, including our CEO, CFO, principal accounting officer or persons performing similar functions. We will provide a copy of our Code of Ethics free of charge to any person upon written request to us at the following address: 900 Bedford Street, Stamford, Connecticut 06901; Attn: Chief Financial Officer.

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors currently consists of eight members. Directors serve until their successors are duly elected or appointed. The Board of Directors has designated a Compensation Committee, Audit Committee, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Executive Committee of the Board. Messrs. Neilson (chairman), Carrazza and Constantino are members of the Compensation Committee; Messrs. Constantino (chairman), Smyth, and Neilson are members of the Audit Committee; Messrs. Van den Bol (chairman), Carrazza and Constantino are members of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee; and Messrs Carrazza (chairman), Constantino, Maher, Neilson and Van den Bol are members of the Executive Committee of the Board.

Audit Committee Financial Expert

Our Board of Directors has determined that Edward N. Constantino and Raymond Smyth are the financial experts serving on our Audit Committee.

Item 11.

Executive Compensation

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Summary Compensation Table

The table below sets forth, for the last two fiscal years, the compensation earned by our Chief Executive Officer, the two other executive officers who received the highest annual compensation and two officers who would have been listed in this table had they been officers at the end of the year. Certain of the named executive officers (the “Named Executive Officers”) are entitled to certain payments in connection with resignation, retirement or other termination, as described more fully under the heading “Agreements with Executive Officers and Consultants.”


Name and Principal Position(s)	Year		Salary			Bonus			All Other Annual Compensation		Total
Michael A. Carrazza (1) Chairman		2011 2010	$ $	300,000 -0-	(2)	$	150,000 -0-	(2)	$ $	-0- -0-	$ $	450,000 -0-

Christopher D. Maher (1)		2011	$	375,000		$	150,000	(2)	$	12,000	$	537,000
President and CEO		2010	$	67,682		$	-0-		$	2,500	$	70,182

Robert F. O’Connell		2011	$	253,323		$	-0-		$	7,430	$	260,753
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer		2010	$	253,323		$	-0-		$	7,423	$	260,746

(1)	Messrs. Carrazza and Maher have been employed by the Company since October 15, 2010.

(2)	Substantially all of the salary and bonus for Mr. Carrazza and the bonus for Mr. Maher for 2011 have been accrued but will not be paid pending regulatory review.

Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change of Control

Patriot and/or the Bank have entered into certain agreements and maintain certain plans that will require the payment of compensation to Mr. O’Connell in the event of a change of control of Patriot. The amount of compensation payable to him in each situation is listed in the table below. The disclosures assume a payment event having occurred on December 31, 2011.

The following table describes the potential payments upon a deemed change of control (“COC”) of Patriot for Robert F. O’Connell:


Executive Benefits and Payments Upon Termination	Voluntary Termination		Normal Retirement		Involuntary Not for Cause Termination		For Cause Termination		Involuntary or Good Reason Termination (COC)		Death or Disability
Compensation:
Cash	$	0	$	0	$	0	$	0	$	625,000	$	0
Non-Cash	$	0	$	0	$	0	$	0	$	0	$	0
Benefits and Perquisites:	$	0	$	0	$	0	$	0	$	0	$	0
Total:	$	0	$	0	$	0	$	0	$	625,000	$	0

Payments are capped so as not to exceed the limits of Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code. The exercise of rights under the change of control agreement will not result in adverse tax consequences to Patriot under Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

401(k) Plan

The Bank maintains a tax-qualified 401(k) Plan under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code with a cash or deferred arrangement under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. Employees become eligible to make salary reduction contributions to the 401(k) Plan and to receive any matching or discretionary contributions made to the 401(k) Plan by the Bank on the first day of the quarter coinciding with or next following the date that the employee has attained 21 years of age and completed at least 1,000 hours of service in a period of six to 12 consecutive calendar months.

Under the 401(k) Plan, participants may elect to have the Bank contribute a portion of their compensation each year, subject to certain limitations imposed by the Internal Revenue Code. The 401(k) Plan permits the Bank to make discretionary matching and additional discretionary contributions to the 401(k) Plan. Participants in the 401(k) Plan may direct the investment of their accounts in several types of investment funds.

Participants are always 100% vested in their elective deferrals, matching and discretionary matching contributions and related earnings under the 401(k) Plan. Participants are permitted to receive a distribution from the 401(k) Plan only in the form of a lump sum payment.

Patriot National Bancorp, Inc. 2012 Stock Plan

In 2011, Patriot adopted the Patriot National Bancorp, Inc. 2012 Stock Plan. The 2012 Plan is administered by a committee of not less than two disinterested members of Patriot’s Board of Directors. Grants under the 2012 Plan may be made in the form of stock options, restricted stock and phantom stock units. The 2012 Plan authorizes 3,000,000 shares of Patriot’s common stock for issuance. Phantom stock units may be granted under the 2012 Plan up to 1,000,000 units.

Under the terms of the 2012 Plan, only Patriot employees and employees of its subsidiaries may receive stock options. The exercise price of the stock options shall be not less than the fair market value of the stock on the date of grant. The Plan Committee shall determine the dates upon which the options may be exercisable, which shall not exceed 10 years from the date of grant. The options may be exercised on a cashless basis if approved by the Plan Committee.

Only Patriot’s and the Bank’s non-employee directors are eligible to receive grants of restricted stock under the 2012 Plan. Each calendar year, Patriot’s directors shall receive shares of restricted stock valued at $12,500 and the directors of the Bank shall receive shares of restricted stock valued at $7,500. The restricted stock shall be subject to such terms and conditions, including vesting, as may be determined by the Plan Committee.

Only Patriot’s employees and employees of its subsidiaries are eligible to receive phantom stock units under the 2012 Plan. The phantom stock units entitle the holder to receive upon exercise, in cash or shares of common stock, the appreciation in the value of the common stock from the date of grant. The Plan Committee shall determine the terms and conditions of each phantom stock unit award. Upon a change of control of Patriot, the grantee shall be required to redeem all of his or her phantom stock units. In the event of a sale of substantially all of Patriot’s assets, all outstanding phantom stock units will be redeemed

There were no awards made under Patriot’s 2012 Stock Plan during 2011.

Director Compensation

The following table details the compensation paid to or accrued for each of Patriot’s non-management directors in 2011:


Name	Fees Earned or Paid in Cash ($)		Cash Awards ($)		Option Awards ($)		Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation ($)		Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings		All Other Compensation ($)		Total ($)
Edward N. Constantino		27,250		-0-		-0-		-0-		-0-		-0-		27,250
Kenneth T. Neilson		24,000		-0-		-0-		-0-		-0-		-0-		24,000
Emile Van den Bol		19,750		-0-		-0-		-0-		-0-		-0-		19,750
Michael J. Weinbaum		17,250		-0-		-0-		-0-		-0-		-0-		17,250

Patriot’s directors who are also executive officers do not receive compensation for service on the board of directors or any of its committees. Non-employee directors of Patriot receive $750 for each board meeting in which they participate and fees ranging from $250 to $500 for each committee meeting in which they participate. In addition, non-employee directors who serve as the chair of a committee receive additional fees ranging from $2,000 to $6,000 per year.

Our directors are also reimbursed for reasonable and necessary out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with their service to us, including travel expenses.

Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans

The Company has 3,000,000 shares of common stock authorized for issuance under the 2012 stock plan.

Item 12.

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

The table below provides certain information about beneficial ownership of common stock of the Company as of April 15, 2012 with respect to: (i) each person, or group of affiliated persons, who is known to the Company to own more than five percent (5%) of Company common stock; (ii) each of the Company’s directors; (iii) each of the Company’s executive officers; and (iv) all of the Company’s directors and executive officers as a group.

Except as otherwise noted, to the knowledge of the Company, all persons listed below have sole voting and dispositive power with respect to all shares of common stock they beneficially own, except to the extent authority is shared by spouses under applicable law. Applicable percentage ownership is based on 38,467,073 shares of common stock outstanding. In computing the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by a person and applicable percentage ownership of that person, we deemed outstanding shares of common stock subject to options held by that person that are currently exercisable or exercisable within sixty (60) days of April 15, 2012. We did not deem these shares outstanding, however, for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person.

Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each shareholder is in care of Patriot National Bancorp, Inc., 900 Bedford Street, Stamford, CT 06901.


	Shares of Common Stock Beneficially Owned
Beneficial Owner	Shares			Percent of Class
Michael A. Carrazza		33,669,500	(1)		87.7	%
Edward N. Constantino		24,492	(5)		*
Christopher D. Maher		21,000			*
Kenneth T. Neilson		72,192	(3)		*
Robert F. O’Connell		27,948			*
Emile Van den Bol		14,924	(5)		*
Raymond Smyth		36,325	(4)		*
Michael J. Weinbaum		64,492	(5)		*
Philip W. Wolford		12,873	(6)		*
Mark C. Foley		0			*
All Directors and Executive Officers		33,943,746	(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)		88.4	%

*	Less than one percent (1%)

⁽¹⁾

Includes 33,600,000 shares held by PNBK Holdings LLC (“Holdings”). Mr. Carrazza is the manager of PNBK Sponsor LLC (“Sponsor”), which is the manager of Holdings; therefore, Mr. Carrazza may be deemed to indirectly beneficially own the shares directly owned by Holdings. Holdings has sole voting and dispositive power with regard to all 33,600,000 shares; Sponsor and Carrazza have shared voting and shared dispositive power of said shares.Also includes 55,000 shares held by Solaia Capital Management Profit Sharing Plan for the benefit of Mr. Carrazza. Mr. Carrazza has sole voting and dispositive power with regard to such shares.

⁽³⁾	Includes 57,700 shares held by Neilson Holdings LP (“NH”). Mr. Neilson is the general partner of NH; therefore, Mr. Neilson may be deemed to indirectly beneficially own the shares held by NH. Also includes 11,776 shares issued pursuant to a Restricted Stock Agreement which have not yet vested.

⁽⁴⁾	Includes 6,264 shares held in an IRA for the benefit of Mr. Smyth. Also includes 9,784 shares issued pursuant to a Restricted Stock Agreement which have not yet vested.

⁽⁵⁾	Includes 11,776 shares issued pursuant to a Restricted Stock Agreement which have not yet vested.

⁽⁶⁾	Includes 84 shares held in joint tenancy with Regine Vantieghem, Mr. Wolford’s wife; and 302 shares owned solely by Regine Vantieghem over which Mr. Wolford disclaims beneficial ownership.

Item 13.

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

Directors and Officers of Patriot

In the ordinary course of business, the Bank has made loans to officers and directors (including loans to members of their immediate families and loans to companies of which a director owns 10% or more). There were no loans to officers and directors outstanding as of December 31, 2011. In the opinion of management, all of such loans were made in the ordinary course of business of the Bank on substantially the same terms, including interest rates and collateral requirements, as those then prevailing for comparable transactions with persons not related to the lender. The Bank believes that at the time of origination these loans neither involved more than the normal risk of collectibility nor presented any other unfavorable features.

Information about transactions involving related persons is assessed by Patriot’s independent directors. Related persons include Patriot’s directors and executive officers as well as immediate family members of directors and officers. If the independent directors approve or ratify a material transaction involving a related person, then the transaction would be disclosed in accordance with the SEC rules. If the related person is a director, or a family member of a director, then that director would not participate in those discussions.

Board Independence

We are subject to the listing standards of the SEC rules pertaining to director independence, and we believe that Messrs. Constantino, Neilson, Van den Bol and Weinbaum are “independent” directors as that term is defined by applicable listing standards of the Nasdaq stock market and SEC rules, including the rules relating to the independence standards of an audit committee and the non-employee definition of Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act.

Item 14.

Principal Accounting Fees and Services

The following table sets forth the principal accounting fees we paid to KPMG LLP and McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, two independent registered public accounting firms, with respect to our fiscal years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 for: (i) services rendered for the audit of our annual financial statements and the review of our quarterly financial statements; (ii) services rendered that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and that are not reported as audit fees; (iii) services rendered in connection with tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning; and (iv) all other services rendered.


	Year Ended
	December 31, 2011		December 31, 2010
Audit fees (1)	$	407,400	$	495,193
Audit-related fees (2)		7,500		—
Tax fees (3)		35,000		38,600
All other fees		—		—

Total fees	$	449,900	$	533,791

(1)

Audit fees with respect to the year ended December 31, 2011 represent payments made by Patriot to KPMG LLP for professional services. Audit fees with respect to the year ended December 31, 2010 represent payments made by Patriot to KPMG LLP and McGladrey & Pullen, LLP for professional services. These payments were approved by the Audit Committee.

(2)	Audit-related fees are payments made to KPMG LLP in connection with Patriot’s Registration Statement on Form S-8.

(3)

Tax fees with respect to the year ended December 31, 2011 represent payments made by Patriot to KPMG LLP for their preparation of Patriot’s federal and state income tax returns. Tax fees with respect to the year ended December 31, 2010 represent payments made by Patriot to KPMG LLP and RSM McGladrey, Inc. for their preparation of Patriot’s federal and state income tax returns. These payments were approved by the Audit Committee.

Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures

The Audit Committee has adopted a policy for pre-approval of audit and permitted non-audit services by the Company’s independent registered public accountants. The Audit Committee will consider annually and, if appropriate, approve the provision of audit services by its external auditor and consider and, if appropriate, pre-approve the provision of certain defined audit and non-audit services. The Audit Committee also will consider on a case-by-case basis and, if appropriate, approve specific engagements that are not otherwise pre-approved.

Any proposed engagement that does not fit within the definition of a pre-approved service may be presented to the Audit Committee for consideration at its next regular meeting or, if earlier consideration is required, to the Audit Committee or one or more of its members. The member or members to whom such authority is delegated shall report any specific approval of services at its next regular meeting. The Audit Committee will regularly review summary reports detailing all services being provided to the Company by its external auditor.

The Audit Committee approved the audit-related fees, tax fees and all other fees set forth above for the year ended December 31, 2011.

PART IV

Item 15.

Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

(b) Index to Exhibits



31.1		Certification of CEO required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002*

31.2		Certification of CFO required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002*

32.1		Certification of CEO and CFO required by Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002*

*	Filed herewith

SIGNATURES

In accordance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

In accordance with the Exchange Act, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.


Signature	Title	Date

/s/ Christopher D. Maher Christopher D. Maher	President and Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)	April 30, 2012

/s/ Robert F. O’Connell Robert F. O’Connell	Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director (Principal Financial Officer)	April 30, 2012

/s/ Michael A. Carrazza Michael A. Carrazza	Chairman of the Board of Directors	April 30, 2012

/s/ Edward N. Constantino Edward N. Constantino	Director	April 30, 2012

/s/ Kenneth T. Neilson Kenneth T. Neilson	Director	April 30, 2012

/s/ Raymond B. Smyth Raymond B. Smyth	Director	April 30, 2012

Emile van den Bol	Director

/s/ Michael Weinbaum Michael Weinbaum	Director	April 30, 2012

Large accelerated filer

Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer

Smaller reporting company