Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 142

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 142
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 shareholders to vote upon the HomeStreet adjournment proposal, but not the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal or the HomeStreet share issuance proposal.

In this proposal, HomeStreet is asking HomeStreet shareholders to authorize the holder of any proxy solicited by the HomeStreet board of directors, on a discretionary basis, to vote in favor of adjourning the HomeStreet special meeting to another time and place for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies, including the solicitation of proxies from HomeStreet shareholders who have previously voted, if a quorum is not present or if there are not sufficient votes at the time of the HomeStreet special meeting to approve the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal or the HomeStreet share issuance proposal. Pursuant to the HomeStreet bylaws, the HomeStreet special meeting may be adjourned without further notice being given.

#### Vote Required for Approval
The approval of the HomeStreet adjournment proposal by HomeStreet shareholders is not a condition to the completion of the merger. The vote on the HomeStreet adjournment proposal is a vote separate and apart from the votes on the HomeStreet share issuance proposal, the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal, the HomeStreet new equity incentive plan proposal and the HomeStreet merger-related compensation proposal. Accordingly, if you are a holder of HomeStreet common stock, you may vote to approve the HomeStreet share issuance proposal, the HomeStreet articles amendment proposal, the HomeStreet new equity incentive plan proposal and/or the HomeStreet merger-related compensation proposal and vote not to approve the HomeStreet adjournment proposal, and vice versa.

Whether or not a quorum is present at the meeting, approval of the HomeStreet adjournment proposal requires that the number of votes cast favoring the HomeStreet adjournment proposal exceeds the number of votes cast opposing the HomeStreet adjournment proposal at the HomeStreet special meeting. If you are present at the HomeStreet special meeting and abstain from voting, or respond by proxy with an “ABSTAIN,” it will have no effect on such proposal. If you are not present at the HomeStreet special meeting, do not respond by proxy and do not provide your bank, broker, trustee or other nominee with instructions, as applicable, it will have no effect on the vote count for such proposal.

**Recommendation of the HomeStreet Board of Directors**

**THE HOMESTREET BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE HOMESTREET ADJOURNMENT PROPOSAL.**

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