# Busey Bank

Ten-state preferred lender, buyouts in its deals.

An Illinois bank whose holding company's headquarters sits in Kansas by its own locations page, with eighty locations across ten states, an SBA preferred lender with a dedicated 7(a) division whose SBA team page names starting, expanding or acquiring a business among what its specialists finance, whose practice pages list expansion through acquisition and partner buyouts, whose closed deals include a partner buyout and an acquisition, and whose SBA officers are named by state with a direct line on each officer's own page.

- Category: SBA & Acquisition Lenders
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Diligence & Close the Deal
- Website: https://www.busey.com/small-business/small-business-team

## At a Glance

The desk that shows its work: closed buyouts and acquisitions on a page, and an officer with a phone number on his own page in each of four states; the sizes it does not publish, its deals page implies.

## What It Costs

Loan products; terms by term sheet. No loan size, rate or fee is published; its team page says terms up to twenty-five years and a down payment as low as ten percent, and its closed deals page shows a five million dollar partner buyout (per busey.com, September 2026).

## Best For

A buyer in Illinois, Missouri, Colorado or Florida who wants an SBA officer with a direct line and a bank that has published the buyouts it closed

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Its SBA team page opens on starting, expanding or acquiring a business, and its practice pages list expansion through acquisition and [partner buyouts](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/partner-buyout)
- Pro: Publishes closed deals, a five million dollar partner buyout and a business acquisition among them
- Pro: Names its SBA sales manager and six SBA officers by state on its team page, and each officer's own page carries a direct line and email
- Pro: An SBA [preferred lender](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/preferred-lender-program) with a dedicated [7(a)](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/sba-7a) division, and a rural lender of the year by its own release
- Con: Publishes no loan size, rate or fee
- Con: Its own pages disagree on one officer's title, three across pages, and its locations page files the corporate headquarters in Kansas beside a contact address in Illinois
- Con: No online application for the SBA loan, and its director of government guaranteed lending is named without a line
- Con: Names no [search fund](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/search-fund), [searcher](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher) or acquisition entrepreneur

## What Searchers Say

Read on its SBA team page, its finance page, its closed deals page, its professional practice pages, its seven SBA officer pages, its commercial lending page, its locations and contact pages and three releases. No searcher-forum discussion of the desk was found.

## Sources

- https://www.busey.com/small-business/small-business-team
- https://www.busey.com/small-business/success-deals
- https://www.busey.com/small-business/professionalpracticelending
- https://www.busey.com/busey/customer-care/locations-and-hours
- https://www.busey.com/about-us/news-and-announcements/sba-rural-lender-of-the-year
- https://www.busey.com/small-business/christopher-manick
- https://www.busey.com/small-business/thomas-orourke
- https://www.busey.com/small-business/jeremy-shore
- https://www.busey.com/small-business/ben-huels
- https://www.busey.com/small-business/roy-wright
- https://www.busey.com/busey/customer-care/contact-us

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Last checked: 2026-09-19

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