CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP — Director's Dealing 2014

Dec 23, 2014

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP (CATY)
CIK: 0000861842
Period of Report: 2014-12-22

Reporting Person: WU PETER (Director, Vice Chairman)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2014-12-22	Common Stock	M	13716	—	Acquired	26692	Direct
2014-12-22	Common Stock	F	5155	$25.33	Disposed	21537	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2014-12-22	Restricted Stock Units	$	M	13716	Disposed		Common Stock (13716)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	882516	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Represents the conversion into Common Stock upon vesting of the restricted stock units reported on Table II

F2: Each restricted stock unit represented a contingent right to receive one share of Common Stock of the Issuer

F3: Shares withheld by Registrant to satisfy minimum statutory withholding requirements on vesting of restricted stock units.

F4: The reporting person is a co-trustee, together with his spouse, of the Wu Trust (the "Trust"), which has transferred the shares of CATY Common Stock previously held by the Trust to PACJU LLC ("PACJU"), a Delaware limited liability company of which the Trust will serve as Manager and hold a 51.5% interest, with the reporting person and his spouse each holding a 5% ownership interest in PACJU in their own names. The balance of the interests in PACJU will be held by the reporting person's adult children, none of whom shares a household with the reporting person. The reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of CATY Stock held by PACJU except the extent of his pecuniary interest therein.

F5: The reporting person previously reported the ward of 13,716 shares of restricted stock units on Form 4 filed December 21, 2012. All of these restricted stock units vested on December 19, 2014