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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January&nbsp;18, 2008</B>
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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Registration No.&nbsp;333- </B><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549<BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>HOME BANCSHARES, INC.</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Arkansas</B><BR>
(State or other jurisdiction of <BR>
incorporation or organization)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>71-0682831</B><BR>
(IRS Employer Identification Number)</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>719 Harkrider, Suite&nbsp;100, Conway, Arkansas</B><BR>
(Address of registrant&#146;s principal executive offices)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>72032</B><BR>
(Zip Code)</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>HOME BANCSHARES, INC. 2006 STOCK OPTION AND PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE PLAN</B><BR>
(Full title of the plan)<BR>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>John W. Allison</B>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Chairman and Chief Executive Officer <BR>
Home BancShares, Inc. <BR>
719 Harkrider, Suite&nbsp;100<BR>
Conway, Arkansas 72032<BR>
Telephone: (501)&nbsp;329-9330</B><BR>
(Name, address and telephone number, <BR>
including area code, of agent for
service)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>John S. Selig, Esq.<BR>
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates &#038;<BR>
Woodyard, P.L.L.C.<BR>
425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite&nbsp;1800<BR>
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201<BR>
Telephone: (501)&nbsp;688-8804<BR>
Facsimile: (501)&nbsp;918-7804</B></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B>
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                    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock, par value $0.01</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">300,000</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$</TD>
    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">19.97</TD>
    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$</TD>
    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">5,991,000</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">235</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(1)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416, this registration statement is deemed to include additional shares of Common Stock issuable
under the terms of the Stock Option Plan to prevent dilution resulting from any further stock split, stock dividend
or similar transaction.</TD>
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    <TD>Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h)&nbsp;under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to be equal to $19.97 per share, the average of the high and low prices of
the Common Stock as reported on The Nasdaq Stock Market on January&nbsp;16, 2008.</TD>
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<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#002">Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits.</A></TD></TR>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to General Instruction E, the contents of Home BancShares, Inc.&#146;s 2006 Stock Option
and Performance Incentive Plan registration statement on Form S-8 (File No.&nbsp;333-136645) are
incorporated herein by reference.
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>PART II</B>
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<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B>

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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Certain legal matters with respect to the validity of the shares of our Common Stock offered
hereby will be passed upon for us by Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates &#038; Woodyard, P.L.L.C.,
Little Rock, Arkansas. As of October&nbsp;15, 2007, attorneys with Mitchell, Williams, Selig,
Gates &#038; Woodyard, P.L.L.C. beneficially own approximately 10,771 shares of our Common Stock.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The exhibits to this Form S-8 are listed on the exhibit index, which appears elsewhere herein
and is incorporated herein by reference.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing
this registration statement on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Conway, State of
Arkansas, on January&nbsp;18, 2008.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left">HOME BANCSHARES, INC.<BR>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">John W. Allison</FONT>
&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="2" align="left">John W. Allison&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Chief Executive Officer and<BR>
Chairman of the Board of Directors&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">POWER OF ATTORNEY
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes
and appoints John W. Allison and Randy E. Mayor, and each of them, his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all
documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, or his or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been
signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">John W. Allison</FONT>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
John W. Allison
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chief Executive
Officer and<BR> Chairman
of the Board of
Directors<BR> (Principal
Executive Officer)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January&nbsp;18, 2008</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Ron W. Strother</FONT>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Ron W. Strother
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">President, Chief
Operating Officer<BR> and
Director
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January&nbsp;18, 2008</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Randy E. Mayor</FONT>
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Randy E. Mayor
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chief Financial
Officer and Treasurer<BR>
(Principal Financial
Officer and<BR>Principal
Accounting Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January&nbsp;18, 2008</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Robert H. &#147;Bunny&#148; Adcock</FONT>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Robert H. &#147;Bunny&#148; Adcock
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Vice Chairman of the
Board and<BR> Director
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January&nbsp;18, 2008</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Richard H. Ashley</FONT>
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Richard H. Ashley
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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</TD>
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<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Dale A. Bruns
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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</TD>
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Richard A. Buckheim
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<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
S. Gene Cauley
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Jack E. Engelkes</FONT>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Jack E. Engelkes
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">James G. Hinkle</FONT>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
James G. Hinkle
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">Alex R. Lieblong</FONT>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Alex R. Lieblong
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ <FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">C. Randall Sims</FONT>
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
C. Randall Sims
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Secretary and Director&nbsp;
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January&nbsp;18, 2008</TD>
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<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
William G. Thompson
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director&nbsp;
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January&nbsp;18, 2008</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates &#038; Woodyard, P.L.L.C.</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Amendment to 2006 Stock Option and Performance Incentive Plan of Home BancShares, Inc.
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;10.1 of Home BancShares&#146;s Quarterly Report on
Form&nbsp;10-Q for the quarter ended June&nbsp;30, 2007, filed on August&nbsp;8, 2007)</TD>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 18, 2008
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
HOME BANCSHARES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Arkansas
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
71-0682831
(IRS Employer Identification Number)
719 Harkrider, Suite 100, Conway, Arkansas
(Address of registrant's principal executive offices)
72032
(Zip Code)
HOME BANCSHARES, INC. 2006 STOCK OPTION AND PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
John W. Allison
Copy to:
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Home BancShares, Inc.
719 Harkrider, Suite 100
Conway, Arkansas 72032
Telephone: (501) 329-9330
(Name, address and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for
service)
John S. Selig, Esq.
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates &
Woodyard, P.L.L.C.
425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
Telephone: (501) 688-8804
Facsimile: (501) 918-7804
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed Maximum
Proposed Maximum
Title of Each Class of
Amount to be
Offering Price Per
Aggregate Offering
Amount of
Securities to be Registered
Registered (1)
Share (2)
Price (2)
Registration Fee (2)
Common Stock, par value $0.01
300,000
$
19.97
$
5,991,000
$
235
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416, this registration statement is deemed to include additional shares of Common Stock issuable
under the terms of the Stock Option Plan to prevent dilution resulting from any further stock split, stock dividend
or similar transaction.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h) under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to be equal to $19.97 per share, the average of the high and low prices of
the Common Stock as reported on The Nasdaq Stock Market on January 16, 2008.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART II
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Item 8. Exhibits.
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
Opinion of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C.
Awareness Letter
Consent of BKD, LLP
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
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Pursuant to General Instruction E, the contents of Home BancShares, Inc.'s 2006 Stock Option
and Performance Incentive Plan registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-136645) are
incorporated herein by reference.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Certain legal matters with respect to the validity of the shares of our Common Stock offered
hereby will be passed upon for us by Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C.,
Little Rock, Arkansas. As of October 15, 2007, attorneys with Mitchell, Williams, Selig,
Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. beneficially own approximately 10,771 shares of our Common Stock.
Item 8. Exhibits.
The exhibits to this Form S-8 are listed on the exhibit index, which appears elsewhere herein
and is incorporated herein by reference.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing
this registration statement on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Conway, State of
Arkansas, on January 18, 2008.
HOME BANCSHARES, INC.
By:
/s/
John W. Allison
John W. Allison
Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of the Board of Directors
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes
and appoints John W. Allison and Randy E. Mayor, and each of them, his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all
documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, or his or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been
signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/
John W. Allison
John W. Allison
Chief Executive
Officer and
Chairman
of the Board of
Directors
(Principal
Executive Officer)
January 18, 2008
/s/
Ron W. Strother
Ron W. Strother
President, Chief
Operating Officer
and
Director
January 18, 2008
/s/
Randy E. Mayor
Randy E. Mayor
Chief Financial
Officer and Treasurer
(Principal Financial
Officer and
Principal
Accounting Officer)
January 18, 2008
/s/
Robert H. "Bunny" Adcock
Robert H. "Bunny" Adcock
Vice Chairman of the
Board and
Director
January 18, 2008
/s/
Richard H. Ashley
Richard H. Ashley
Director
January 18, 2008
/s/
Dale A. Bruns
Dale A. Bruns
Director
January 18, 2008
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Signature
Title
Date
/s/
Richard A. Buckheim
Richard A. Buckheim
Director
January 18, 2008
/s/
S. Gene Cauley
S. Gene Cauley
Director
January 18, 2008
/s/
Jack E. Engelkes
Jack E. Engelkes
Director
January 18, 2008
/s/
James G. Hinkle
James G. Hinkle
Director
January 18, 2008
/s/
Alex R. Lieblong
Alex R. Lieblong
Director
January 18, 2008
/s/
C. Randall Sims
C. Randall Sims
Secretary and Director
January 18, 2008
/s/
William G. Thompson
William G. Thompson
Director
January 18, 2008
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Number
Description
5
—
Opinion of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C.
15
—
Awareness Letter from BKD, LLP regarding unaudited interim financial information
23.1
—
Consent of BKD, LLP
23.2
—
Consent of Ernst & Young, LLP
23.3
—
Consent of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. (included in Exhibit 5)
24
—
Power of Attorney (on signature page)
99.1
—
Amendment to 2006 Stock Option and Performance Incentive Plan of Home BancShares, Inc.
(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Home BancShares's Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, filed on August 8, 2007)
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