SCBT Financial Corporation 144
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 144
 
NOTICE OF PROPOSED SALE OF SECURITIES
PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ATTENTION:
Transmit for filing 3 copies of this form concurrently with either placing an order with a broker to execute sale
or executing a sale directly with a market maker.
1 (a) NAME OF ISSUER (Please type or print)
 
SCBT Financial Corporation
(b) IRS IDENT. NO.

57-0799315
(c) S.E.C. FILE NO.
 
SEC1147
1 (d) ADDRESS OF ISSUER
 
520 Gervais Street
STREET
 
CITY
 
Columbia
STATE
 
SC
ZIP CODE
 
29201
(e) TELEPHONE NO.
 
AREA CODE
803
NUMBER
231-3380
2 (a) NAME OF PERSON FOR WHOSE
     ACCOUNT THE SECURITIES
 ARE TO BE SOLD

Robert R. Hill, Jr.
(b) IRS IDENT. NO.
 
 
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO
 ISSUER
 
 
Officer Affiliate (CEO)
(d) ADDRESS STREET
 
CITY
 
 
STATE
 
ZIP CODE
 
 
INSTRUCTION: The person filing this notice should contact the issuer to obtain the I.R.S. Identification Number and the S.E.C. File Number.
 
3 (a)
(b)
SEC USE ONLY
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
Title of the
Class of
Securities
To Be Sold
Name and Address of Each Broker Through Whom the
Securities are to be Offered or Each Market Maker
who is Acquiring the Securities
 
Broker-Dealer
File Number

Number of Shares
or Other Units
To Be Sold
(See instr. 3(c))

Aggregate
Market
Value
(See instr. 3(d))
 
Number of Shares
or Other Units
Outstanding
(See instr. 3(e))
 
Approximate
Date of Sale
(See instr. 3(f))
(MO. DAY YR.)

Name of Each
Securities
Exchange
(See instr. 3(g))
 
Common
Stock
 
Saloman Smith Barney, Inc.
388 Greenwich St.
New York, NY 10013

NASDAQ

2,000

$73,860

9,182,181

6/11/2007

NASDAQ
               
               
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. (a)
Name of issuer
3. (a) 
Title of the class of securities to be sold
  (b)
Issuer’s I.R.S. Identification Number
  (b)
Name and address of each broker through whom the securities are intended to be sold
  (c)
Issuer’s S.E.C. file number, if any
  (c)
Number of shares or other units to be sold (if debt securities, give the aggregate face amount)
  (d)
Issuer’s address, including zip code
  (d) 
Aggregate market value of the securities to be sold as of a specified date within 10 days prior to the filing of this notice
  (e)
Issuer’s telephone number, including area code
  (e)
Number of shares or other units of the class outstanding, or if debt securities the face amount thereof outstanding, as shown by the most recent report
          or statement published by the issuer
2. (a) 
Name of person for whose account the securities are to be sold
  (f)
Approximate date on which the securities are to be sold
  (b)
Such person’s I.R.S. identification number, if such person is an entity
  (g)
Name of each securities exchange, if any, on which the securities are intended to be sold
  (c)
Such person’s relationship to the issuer (e.g., officer, director, 10%
     
   
stockholder, or member of immediate family of any of the foregoing)
     
  (d)
Such person’s address, including zip code
     
 
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not
required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB control number.
 
 

 
 
TABLE I –– SECURITIES TO BE SOLD
Furnish the following information with respect to the acquisition of the securities to be sold
and with respect to the payment of all or any part of the purchase price or other consideration therefor:
             
Title of
the Class
Date you
Acquired
Nature of Acquisition Transaction
Name of Person from Whom Acquired
(If gift, also give date donor acquired)
Amount of
Securities Acquired
Date of
Payment
Nature of Payment
             
Common
1/27/2004
Exercise of incentive stock options
SCBT Financial Corporation
500
1/27/2004
Cash
             
Common
1/27/2004
Exercise of incentive stock options
SCBT Financial Corporation
1,500
11/10/2004
Cash
             
             
             
 
INSTRUCTIONS:
 
If the securities were purchased and full payment therefor was not made in cash at
the time of purchase, explain in the table or in a note thereto the nature of the
consideration given. If the consideration consisted of any note or other obligation,
or if payment was made in installments describe the arrangement and state when
the note or other obligation was discharged in full or the last installment paid.

 
TABLE II –– SECURITIES SOLD DURING THE PAST 3 MONTHS
Furnish the following information as to all securities of the issuer sold during the past 3 months by the person for whose account the securities are to be sold.
 
         
Name and Address of Seller
Title of Securities Sold
Date of Sale
Amount of
Securities Sold
Gross Proceeds
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
 
REMARKS:
 
Mr. Hill used borrowed funds/debt from another institution to exercise these and/or other SCBT incentive stock options. This sale is for the purpose of reducing some of this debt balance.
 
INSTRUCTIONS:
See the definition of “person” in paragraph (a) of Rule 144. Information is to be given
not only as to the person for whose account the securities are to be sold but also as to all
other persons included in that definition. In addition, information shall be given as to sales
by all personswhose sales are required by paragraph (e) of Rule 144 to be aggregated with
sales for the account of the person filing this notice.
 
ATTENTION:
The person for whose account the securities to which this notice relates
are to be sold hereby represents by signing this notice that he does not
know any material adverse information in regard to the current and
prospective operations of the Issuer of the securities to be sold which
has not been publicly disclosed.
 
 
6/04/2007
 
Robert R. Hill, Jr.
 
 
DATE OF NOTICE
 
(SIGNATURE)
 
 
The notice shall be signed by the person for whose account the securities are to be sold. At least one copy of the notice shall be manually signed.
Any copies not manually signed shall bear typed or printed signatures.
 
ATTENTION: Intentional misstatements or omission of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations (See 18 U.S.C. 1001)