Company: GDOT
Filing Date: 2025-11-26
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001140361-25-043547
Chunk: 1

Company: GREEN DOT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-11-26
Form: 425
Chunk 1
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 financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |

On November 23, 2025, Green Dot Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Green Dot”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with CommerceOne Financial Corporation, an Alabama corporation (“CommerceOne”), Compass Sub North, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of CommerceOne (“New CommerceOne”), Compass Sub East, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of New CommerceOne (“Merger Sub One”), and Compass Sub West, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of New CommerceOne (“Merger Sub Two,” and together with CommerceOne, New CommerceOne and Merger Sub One, the “CommerceOne Parties”). The Merger Agreement provides that, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, (i) Merger Sub One will merge with and into CommerceOne and Merger Sub Two will merge with and into Green Dot (collectively, the “First Mergers”), with CommerceOne and Green Dot, respectively, surviving the First Mergers; and (ii) following the First Mergers, CommerceOne will merge with and into New CommerceOne, with New CommerceOne surviving under the name “CommerceOne Financial Corporation” (together with the First Mergers, the “Mergers”). Concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, Green Dot entered into a Separation Agreement (the “Separation Agreement”) with New CommerceOne and Green Dot OpCo, LLC, a newly formed Delaware limited liability company and affiliate of Smith Ventures, LLC (“OpCo”), pursuant to which, upon the terms and subject to the conditions therein, following the First Mergers, (i) Green Dot will convert into a limited liability company, (ii) Green Dot will distribute the stock of Green Dot Bank, a Utah-chartered bank and wholly owned subsidiary of Green Dot, to Compass Sub Northwest, Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation and direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of New CommerceOne (“CommerceOne Intermediate Holdco”), and (iii) OpCo will acquire Green Dot and its non-bank financial technology and related assets and operations (the “Business” and, collectively with the matters contemplated by clauses (ii) and (iii), the “Sale Transactions”). The Merger Agreement and