EX-21.1 6 a2055571zex-21_1.htm EXHIBIT 21.1 Prepared by MERRILL CORPORATION
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EXHIBIT 21.1

Subsidiaries of the Registrant

 
   State of
Incorporation
   Percent
Owned
  

Sterling Savings Bank
 
Washington
 
100
%

Tri-Cities Mortgage Corporation
 
Washington
 
100
%

Sterling Capital Trust I
 
Delaware
 
100
%

Sterling Capital Trust II
 
Delaware
 
100
%

Subsidiaries of Sterling Savings Bank:
 
 
 
 
 

Action Mortgage Company
 
Washington
 
100
%

Harbor Financial Services, Inc.
(a subsidiary of Evergreen First Service Corporation)
 
Washington
 
100
%

INTERVEST-Mortgage Investment Company
 
Washington
 
100
%

Evergreen Environmental Development Corporation
 
Washington
 
100
%

Evergreen First Service Corporation
 
Washington
 
100
%

Fidelity Service Corporation
 
Washington
 
100
%

Tri-West Mortgage Company
 
Washington
 
100
%

Sterling Automobile Loan Securitization 2000-1, L.L.C.
 
Delaware
 
100
%

Sterling Interim Corporation (in formation)
 
Washington
 
100
%


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