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    <TD align="left" valign="top" nowrap>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May&nbsp;28, 2010.
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">File No.&nbsp;333-<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>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: 0pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933<BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 0pt"><B>UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS, INC.</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><I>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</I></DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>58-1807304</B></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><I>(State or Other Jurisdiction of</I>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><I>(I.R.S. Employer</I></TD>
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<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>125 Highway 515 East<BR>
Blairsville, Georgia 30512</B><BR>
<I>(Address of Issuer&#146;s Principal Executive Offices)</I>

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<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>United Community Banks, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan</B><BR>
<I>(Full Title of the Plan)</I>

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<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>Mr.&nbsp;Jimmy C. Tallent<BR>
President and Chief Executive Officer<BR>
P.O. Box 398<BR>
125 Highway 515 East<BR>
Blairsville, Georgia 30512<BR>
(706)&nbsp;785-2265</B><BR>
<I>(Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)</I>

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<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><I>Copies to:</I><BR>
<B>Mr.&nbsp;James W. Stevens<BR>
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP<BR>
1100 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite&nbsp;2800<BR>
Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4530<BR>
(404)&nbsp;815-6500<BR>
(404)&nbsp;815-6555 (fax)</B>

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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a
non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of &#147;large accelerated
filer,&#148; &#147;accelerated filer&#148; and &#147;smaller reporting company&#148; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
(Check one):
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                    <TD style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">2,000,000 <SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(1)</SUP></TD>
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Interests in United
Community Banks,
Inc. Profit Sharing
Plan</DIV></TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="text-align: justify">Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416, this Registration Statement shall be deemed to cover any additional
securities to be offered or issued from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="text-align: justify">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule
457(c) and (h)&nbsp;of the Securities Act of 1933. The proposed maximum aggregate offering price and
amount of registration fee are based on $4.54, the average of the high and low price on Nasdaq on
May&nbsp;25, 2010.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="text-align: justify">Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement covers
an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan
described herein.</DIV></TD>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">United Community Banks, Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;) files this Registration Statement on Form S-8 in
connection with the United Community Banks, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan (the &#147;Plan&#148;) to increase the
number of shares of common stock that may be issued under the Plan. The shares authorized under
the Plan have been increased by 2,000,000 shares. The Company previously filed a registration
statement on Form S-8 (File No.&nbsp;333-159989) (the &#147;Previous Registration Statement&#148;) covering
500,000 shares. The Previous Registration Statement continues and remains effective as to those
shares registered thereunder.
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>INCORPORATION OF PRIOR REGISTRATION STATEMENT BY REFERENCE</B>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">Pursuant to Instruction E to Form S-8, the Company hereby incorporates by reference into this
Registration Statement the contents of the Previous Registration Statement, including all
amendments, attachments and exhibits thereto.
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>PART II. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.</B>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; margin-left: 4%">The exhibits included as part of this Registration Statement are as follows:
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>SIGNATURES OF REGISTRANT</B>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing 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 Blairsville, State of Georgia, on May&nbsp;28, 2010.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left"><B>UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS, INC.</B><BR>
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    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>

<TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/&nbsp;Jimmy C. Tallent</TD>
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Jimmy C. Tallent and
Robert L. Head, Jr., and either of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full
power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and to cause the
same to be filed, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby granting to said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power
and authority to do so and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite or desirable
to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things that said
attorneys-in-fact, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.
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<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been
signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on May&nbsp;28, 2010.
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<TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Jimmy C. Tallent</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
<TD align="left" valign="top"><DIV style="font-size: 10pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">Jimmy C. Tallent</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">(Principal Executive Officer)</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
<TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Rex S. Schuette</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Rex S. Schuette
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">(Principal Financial Officer)</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
<TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Alan H. Kumler</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Alan H. Kumler
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
<TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Robert L. Head, Jr.</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chairman of the Board</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Robert L. Head, Jr.
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
<TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ W.C. Nelson, Jr.</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Vice Chairman of the Board</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
W.C. Nelson, Jr.
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
<TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Robert H. Blalock</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Robert H. Blalock
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
<TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Cathy Cox</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Cathy Cox
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
<TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Hoyt O. Holloway</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Hoyt O. Holloway
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
<TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ John D. Stephens</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
John D. Stephens
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
<TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Tim Wallis</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Tim Wallis
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><B>SIGNATURE OF PLAN</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the trustees (or other persons who
administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this registration statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Tulsa, State of Oklahoma,
on May&nbsp;28, 2010.
</DIV>

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    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TR>
    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left"><B>UNITED COMMUNITY BANK, INC. PROFIT SHARING PLAN</B><br>&nbsp;
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" style="border-bottom: 0px solid #000000" align="left"><B>BY: </B>  <B>INTRUST BANK, N.A.</B>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>

<TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/&nbsp;John M. Goff</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">John M. Goff&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Senior Vice President&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
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TO<BR>
REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8</B>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Exhibit Number</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">5</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Opinion of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">23.1</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of Porter Keadle Moore, LLP</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">23.2</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Consent of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5)</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">24</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Power of Attorney (included on the Signature Page of this
Registration Statement)</DIV></TD>
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Form S-8
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 28, 2010.
File No. 333-
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Georgia
58-1807304
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
(I.R.S. Employer
Incorporation or Organization)
Identification Number)
125 Highway 515 East
Blairsville, Georgia 30512
(Address of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices)
United Community Banks, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Mr. Jimmy C. Tallent
President and Chief Executive Officer
P.O. Box 398
125 Highway 515 East
Blairsville, Georgia 30512
(706) 785-2265
(Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
Copies to:
Mr. James W. Stevens
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
1100 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 2800
Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4530
(404) 815-6500
(404) 815-6555 (fax)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a
non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of "large accelerated
filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
(Check one):
Large Accelerated Filer
o
Accelerated Filer
þ
Non-Accelerated Filer
o
Smaller Reporting Company
o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
Calculation of Registration Fee
Proposed
Maximum
Proposed
Maximum
Amount to be
Offering Price
Aggregate
Amount of
Title of Securities
to be Registered
Registered
Per Share
Offering Price
Registration Fee
Common Stock
2,000,000
(1)
$4.54
(2)
$9,080,000
$
647.40
Participation
Interests in United
Community Banks,
Inc. Profit Sharing
Plan
(3)
(4)
(4)
(4)
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416, this Registration Statement shall be deemed to cover any additional
securities to be offered or issued from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule
457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act of 1933. The proposed maximum aggregate offering price and
amount of registration fee are based on $4.54, the average of the high and low price on Nasdaq on
May 25, 2010.
(3)
Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement covers
an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan
described herein.
(4)
Not applicable.
United Community Banks, Inc. (the "Company") files this Registration Statement on Form S-8 in
connection with the United Community Banks, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan (the "Plan") to increase the
number of shares of common stock that may be issued under the Plan. The shares authorized under
the Plan have been increased by 2,000,000 shares. The Company previously filed a registration
statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-159989) (the "Previous Registration Statement") covering
500,000 shares. The Previous Registration Statement continues and remains effective as to those
shares registered thereunder.
INCORPORATION OF PRIOR REGISTRATION STATEMENT BY REFERENCE
Pursuant to Instruction E to Form S-8, the Company hereby incorporates by reference into this
Registration Statement the contents of the Previous Registration Statement, including all
amendments, attachments and exhibits thereto.
PART II. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
The exhibits included as part of this Registration Statement are as follows:
Exhibit Number
Description
5
Opinion of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
23.1
Consent of Porter Keadle Moore, LLP
23.2
Consent of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP (included on Exhibit 5)
24
Power of Attorney (included on the Signature Page of this Registration Statement)
SIGNATURES OF REGISTRANT
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing 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 Blairsville, State of Georgia, on May 28, 2010.
UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS, INC.
By:
/s/ Jimmy C. Tallent
Jimmy C. Tallent
President and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Jimmy C. Tallent and
Robert L. Head, Jr., and either of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full
power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and to cause the
same to be filed, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby granting to said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power
and authority to do so and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite or desirable
to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things that said
attorneys-in-fact, 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 indicated on May 28, 2010.
/s/ Jimmy C. Tallent
President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director
Jimmy C. Tallent
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Rex S. Schuette
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Rex S. Schuette
(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Alan H. Kumler
Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting
Alan H. Kumler
Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Robert L. Head, Jr.
Chairman of the Board
Robert L. Head, Jr.
/s/ W.C. Nelson, Jr.
Vice Chairman of the Board
W.C. Nelson, Jr.
/s/ Robert H. Blalock
Director
Robert H. Blalock
/s/ Cathy Cox
Director
Cathy Cox
/s/ Hoyt O. Holloway
Director
Hoyt O. Holloway
/s/ John D. Stephens
Director
John D. Stephens
/s/ Tim Wallis
Director
Tim Wallis
SIGNATURE OF PLAN
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the trustees (or other persons who
administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this registration statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Tulsa, State of Oklahoma,
on May 28, 2010.
UNITED COMMUNITY BANK, INC. PROFIT SHARING PLAN
BY:
INTRUST BANK, N.A.
By:
/s/ John M. Goff
John M. Goff
Senior Vice President
EXHIBIT INDEX
TO
REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8
Exhibit Number
Description
5
Opinion of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
23.1
Consent of Porter Keadle Moore, LLP
23.2
Consent of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP (included in Exhibit 5)
24
Power of Attorney (included on the Signature Page of this
Registration Statement)