Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001518715-25-000066
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Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: DEF 14A
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Only HomeStreet shareholders or their duly authorized and constituted proxies may virtually attend the Annual Meeting. The control number printed on your Notice of Internet Availability, proxy card or voting instruction materials is required to virtually attend the meeting through the website at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HMST2025 regardless of whether you are a registered shareholder or a beneficial shareholder. We have been advised that Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers will give the best user experience for participation in the virtual meeting.

Our Chairman and CEO is expected to lead the meeting, and members of our Board are expected to be present and available during the Annual Meeting. During the Annual Meeting, you will be able to hear the business of the meeting as it is conducted, vote your shares if you have not already done so, access information that would normally be available at an in-person annual meeting, including the list of shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting, and submit questions to be answered by our Chairman of the Board. Questions pertinent to meeting matters will be answered during the meeting, subject to time constraints, and additional instructions regarding the question and answer period of the Annual Meeting will be posted on the virtual meeting website.

The virtual Annual Meeting has been designed to provide the same rights to participate as you would have at an in-person meeting. Shareholders participating in the virtual Annual Meeting will be in a listen-only mode and will not be able to speak during the webcast. However, in order to maintain the interactive nature of the virtual meeting, virtual attendees are able submit questions before and during the meeting through the virtual meeting portal. To submit a question, log into the virtual meeting platform at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HMST2025 , type your question into the “Ask a Question” field, and click “Submit.” Questions and answers may be grouped by topic and substantially similar questions may be grouped and answered once. In order to promote fairness and efficient use of time, we will respond to up to two questions from a single shareholder and may not be able to respond to all questions.

Our virtual Annual Meeting website will be hosted by Broadridge. In the event you have any technical difficulties logging into the meeting, please call the technical support number that will be posted on the virtual meeting platform at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/HMST2025 .

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#### What constitutes a “quorum”?
A majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, present in person as a logged-in participant of the Annual Meeting or represented by proxy, will constitute a qu