Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 776

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 776
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determination as to whether to participate and, if it does not participate, it shall promptly dispose of a number of Company Equity Interests necessary to avoid a Company Control Effect arising from such redemption, recapitalization or repurchase (in one or more transfers which comply with the terms of this Agreement).

Section 5.2 Company Control Effect Remedies . If at any time a Rabobank Party reasonably determines in good faith, after consultation with the Company and its outside counsel, that (i) the Rabobank Parties’ ownership of the Company Equity Interests has become illegal or in contravention of any order or judgment by a Governmental Authority or the Non-Control Determination or (ii) a Company Control Effect has otherwise occurred, then, provided the Rabobank Parties have complied with their obligations under Section 5.1, if, despite the Rabobank Parties’ compliance with their obligations set forth in Section 5.1, such illegality, contravention or Company Control Effect cannot be cured, the parties shall cooperate in good faith to take such actions as are mutually agreeable to cure such illegality, contravention or Company Control Effect in a manner that best preserves the parties’ economic expectations under this Agreement, the Merger Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if reasonably required in order to cure either (i) or (ii) above, such Rabobank Parties shall be entitled to effect a transfer of the portion of their Company Equity Interests to the extent necessary to cure such illegality, contravention or Company Control Effect.

## ARTICLE VI
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Section 6.1 Board Observer .

(a) As long as the Rabobank Parties beneficially own, in the aggregate, at least 4.9% of the Outstanding Company Equity Interests, the Rabobank Parties shall have the right to appoint one (1) observer (the “ Observer ”) to the Board of Directors on the terms set forth below:

(i) The Observer shall have the right to attend and observe meetings of the Board of Directors, but not executive sessions or committee sessions, but shall not have any voting right or count towards the quorum at a Board meeting.

(ii) The Observer shall have no power of attorney to represent or act on behalf of the Company and the parties acknowledge and agree that the Observer