UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Puerto Rico		001-31579		66-031262
(State or Other Jurisdiction of		(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)
Incorporation)

1451 Franklin D. Roosevelt Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00920-2717
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 787-474-6700

Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 8.01 Other Events.

     On April 21, 2011, the Board of Directors of Doral Financial Corporation (“Doral Financial”) adopted a resolution determining that the annual meeting of shareholders of Doral Financial will be held on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at The New York Palace, Henry Room, 455 Madison Avenue, New York, New York beginning at 7:30 a.m. The record date for the annual meeting will be May 6, 2011.

     Doral Financial anticipates that the Notice of Meeting and Proxy Statement, the accompanying form of proxy and Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 will be mailed to shareholders on or about May 12, 2011.

     As disclosed in the proxy statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on May 12, 2010, Doral Financial’s bylaws require a shareholder wishing to make a nomination or bring any other matter before an annual meeting of shareholders to notify our Corporate Secretary in writing, which notice (containing certain information specified in the bylaws about the shareholder and the proposed action) shall be received by our Corporate Secretary not less than 90 or more than 180 days in advance of the first anniversary date of the preceding year’s annual meeting. However, since the annual meeting of shareholders for 2011 was called on a date that is not within 30 days before or after the anniversary date of last year’s annual meeting of shareholders, notice by a shareholder in order to be timely must be received not later than the close of business on the fifteenth day following the date of filing of this Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (which constitutes public disclosure by Doral Financial of the date of the annual meeting of shareholders).

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.