Intervest Bancshares Corporation
One Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 400
New York, NY 10020-2002
By EDGAR – As Correspondence
July 11, 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
| Attn: | Matt McNair |
Division of Corporation Finance
| RE: | Intervest Bancshares Corporation |
Registration Statement on Form S-1
File No.: 333-170087
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Intervest Bancshares Corporation (the “Registrant”) hereby advises the Staff that the Post-Effective Amendment No. 1, filed on July 8, 2011, to the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-1 of the Registrant, was filed by the Registrant to deregister all 850,000 shares of the Registrant’s Class A common stock originally registered under such Registration Statement.
| Very truly yours, | ||
| INTERVEST BANCSHARES CORPORATION | ||
| By: | /s/ Lowell S. Dansker | |
| Lowell S. Dansker | ||
| Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | ||
