Amend to Stmt of Changes in Beneficial Ownership
 

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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

FORM 4

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

o Check this box if no longer
subject to Section 16.
Form 4 or Form 5
obligations may continue.
See Instruction 1(b)

1. Name and Address of Reporting
Person*
(Last, First, Middle)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or
Trading Symbol
3. I.R.S. Identification Number of Reporting
Person, if an entity
(Voluntary)
  Kuhl, Barbara J.
  First Busey Corporation — BUSE
 
  101 Greencroft Drive
4. Statement for (Month/Day/Year) 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year)
   
  November 12, 2002
  (Street) 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check All Applicable) 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
(Check Applicable Line)
  Champaign, IL 61821
(City)                (State)           (Zip)
  x  Director o  10% Owner   x Form filed by One Reporting Person
    x  Officer (give title below)   o Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
    o  Other (specify below)  
      President and COO — First Busey Corporation
     

Reminder:   Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
 
*   If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see instruction 4(b)(v).
 

 


 


Table I — Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned

1. Title of Security
(Instr. 3)
2. Transaction Date
(Month/Day/Year)
2a. Deemed Execution
Date, if any.

(Month/Day/Year)
3. Transaction Code
(Instr. 8)
4. Securities Acquired (A)
or Disposed of (D)

(Instr. 3, 4 and 5)
5. Amount of Securities
Beneficially Owned
Following Reported
Transactions(s)

(Instr. 3 and 4)
6. Ownership
Form:
Direct (D) or
Indirect (I)

(Instr. 4)
7. Nature of
Indirect
Beneficial
Ownership

(Instr. 4)

              Code V   Amount (A)
or
(D)
Price            

  Common   10/15/02 10/15/02   G   1,800   A         D  

    11/12/02   11/12/02   S   2,500   D $22.73         D  

    11/12/02   11/12/02   S   4,500   D $22.50     72,455     D  

                8,996.6719     I   ESOP Plan

                2,260     I   401(k) / Profit Sharing

  Common   1/1/02-12/31/02     L   16.55188   A Dividend Rein     64,706.614     I   Spouse

                16,433.4933     I   Spouse ESOP

                6,925     I   Spouse 401(k)/Profit Sharing

                   

                   

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Table II — Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
  (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

1. Title of Derivative
Security

(Instr. 3)
2. Conversion or Exercise
Price of Derivative
Security
3. Transaction
Date

(Month/Day/Year)
3a. Deemed Execution
Date, if any

(Month/Day/Year)
4. Transaction
Code

(Instr. 8)
5. Number of Derivative Securities
Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D)

(Instr. 3, 4 and 5)

                      Code V   (A) (D)

  Employee Stock Option   $12.1300     08/19/1997      

  Employee Stock Option   $16.7500     06/16/1998      

  Employee Stock Option   $17.8750     02/19/2001      

  Employee Stock Option   $21.8390     04/16/2002     A   20,000

  Employee Stock Option   $12.1300     08/19/1997      

  Employee Stock Option   $16.7500     06/16/1998      

  Employee Stock Option   $18.2500     11/19/1999      

  Employee Stock Option   $20.0625     02/15/2000      

  Employee Stock Option   $17.8750     02/19/2001      

  Employee Stock Option   $21.8390     04/16/2002     A   20,000

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Table II — Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned — Continued
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

6. Date Exercisable and
Expiration Date

(Month/Day/Year)
7. Title and Amount
of Underlying Securities

(Instr. 3 and 4)
8. Price of Derivative
Security

(Instr. 5)
9. Number of Derivative
Securities Beneficially Owned
Following Reported Transaction(s)

(Instr. 4)
10. Ownership Form of
Derivative Security:
Direct (D) or Indirect (I)

(Instr. 4)
11. Nature of
Indirect
Beneficial
Ownership

(Instr. 4)

  Date
Exercisable
Expiration
Date
  Title Amount or
Number of
Shares
                       

  01/01/2002 12/31/2002   Common 4,000         4,000     D  

  09/01/2003 09/30/2004   Common 4,400         4,400     D  

  01/15/2002 12/15/2005   Common 7,500         7,500     D  

  04/16/2005 12/16/2010   Common 20,000         20,000     D  

  01/01/2002 12/31/2003   Common 10,000         10,000     I   Spouse

  07/01/2003 9/30/2004   Common 4,700         4,700     I   Spouse

  01/19/2001 12/15/2003   Common 10,000         10,000     I   Spouse

  01/16/2001 12/15/2004   Common 7,500         7,500     I   Spouse

  01/15/2002 12/15/2005   Common 7,500         7,500     I   Spouse

  04/16/2005 12/16/2010   Common 20,000         20,000     I   Spouse

Explanation of Responses:

// Nicole M. Warren POA //   January 24, 2003

**Signature of Reporting Person
 
Date


**   Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
 
Note:   File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Barbara J. Kuhl and Nicole M. Warren signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

  (1)    execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of First Busey Corporation (the “Company”) Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2)    do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3)    take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

    The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

    This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.

    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 20th day of August, 2002.

/s/ Barbara J. Kuhl


Signature

Barbara J. Kuhl


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