Exhibit 99.1
Hanmi Financial Corporation Announces Successful Initial Closing of
Rights Offering and Best Efforts Public Offering
Rights Offering and Best Efforts Public Offering
LOS ANGELES — July 22, 2010 — Hanmi Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: HAFC), the holding
company for Hanmi Bank, today reported that on July 21, 2010 it successfully completed the initial
closing of its rights and best efforts public offerings. Hanmi fulfilled a key condition to the
closing of the offerings by raising well in excess of the $105 million required to close.
“We are very pleased with the success of the offerings and grateful for the support shown by our
stockholders. We are also pleased with the confidence shown by the investment community in Hanmi’s
future”stated Jay S. Yoo, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Hanmi also announced that it has scheduled a final closing of the best efforts public offering for
5 p.m., Pacific Time, on Monday, July 26, 2010. The final closing is intended to accommodate
further demand and allow for the processing of additional funds, up to $120 million in the
aggregate, the maximum amount available in the offerings.
Hanmi intends to contribute at least $100 million of the net proceeds from the offerings to Hanmi
Bank as additional capital by July 31, 2010 to satisfy a requirement of Hanmi Bank’s regulatory
order from the California Department of Financial Institutions.
About Hanmi Financial Corporation
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Hanmi Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hanmi Financial Corporation,
provides services to the multi-ethnic communities of California, with 27 full-service offices in
Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, San Francisco, Santa Clara and San Diego counties, and a loan
production office in Washington State. Hanmi Bank specializes in commercial, SBA and trade finance
lending, and is a recognized community leader. Hanmi Bank’s mission is to provide a full range of
quality products and premier services to its customers and to maximize shareholder value.
Additional information is available at www.hanmi.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are included in accordance with the
“safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases,
you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,”
“could,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,”
“potential,” or “continue,” or the negative of such terms and other comparable terminology.
Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are
reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.
These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ from those expressed
or implied by the forward-looking statement. These factors include the following: failure on or
about July 26, 2010 to close on any or all of the remaining amount available in the best efforts
public offering; inability to consummate the proposed transaction (the “Transaction”) with Woori
Finance Holdings Co. Ltd. (“Woori”) on the terms contemplated in the Securities Purchase Agreement
entered into with Woori on May 25, 2010; failure to receive regulatory or stockholder approval for
the Transaction; inability to continue as a going concern; inability to raise additional capital on
acceptable terms or at all; failure to maintain adequate levels of capital and liquidity to support
our operations; the effect of regulatory orders we have entered into and potential future
supervisory action against us or Hanmi Bank; general economic and business conditions
internationally, nationally and in those areas in which we operate; volatility and deterioration in
the credit and equity markets; changes in consumer spending, borrowing and savings habits;
availability of capital from private and government sources; demographic changes; competition for
loans and deposits and failure to attract or retain loans and deposits; fluctuations in interest
rates and a decline in the level of our interest rate spread; risks of natural disasters related to
our real estate portfolio; risks associated with Small Business Administration loans; failure to
attract or retain key employees; changes in governmental regulation, including, but not limited to,
any increase in FDIC insurance premiums; ability to receive regulatory approval for Hanmi Bank to
declare dividends to the Company; adequacy of our allowance for