Company: HBAN
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-041757
Chunk: 189

Company: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INC /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: S-4
Chunk 189
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, or any adjournment or postponement thereof, each of the parties will in good faith use its reasonable best efforts to negotiate a restructuring of the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement (provided, however, that no party will have any obligation to agree to (i) alter or change any material term of the merger agreement, including the amount or kind of the merger consideration, in a manner adverse to such party or its shareholders or (ii) adversely affect the tax treatment of the merger with respect to such party or its shareholders) and/or resubmit the merger agreement or the transactions contemplated thereby (or as restructured pursuant to the merger agreement) to its shareholders for approval.

#### Certain Additional Covenants
**The merger agreement also contains additional covenants, including, among others, covenants relating to the filing of this joint proxy statement/prospectus, obtaining required consents, the listing of the shares of Huntington common stock and depositary shares in respect of new Huntington preferred stock to be issued in the merger, access to information of the other company, advice of changes, exemption from takeover laws, shareholder litigation relating to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, the assumption by Huntington or Huntington National Bank of Cadence indebtedness and public announcements with respect to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement.

Shareholder Meetings and Recommendation of Huntington’s and Cadence’s Boards of Directors

Each of Cadence and Huntington have agreed to take, in accordance with applicable law and the Cadence articles and Cadence bylaws and the Huntington articles and Huntington bylaws, all actions necessary to convene a meeting of their respective shareholders (the “Cadence special meeting” and the “Huntington special meeting,” respectively) to be held as soon as reasonably practicable after the registration on Form S-4 of which this joint proxy statement/prospectus forms a part is declared effective for the purpose of obtaining the requisite Cadence vote and the requisite Huntington vote, respectively, required in connection with the merger agreement and the merger and, if so desired and mutually agreed by the parties, other matters of the type customarily brought before an annual or special meeting of shareholders to adopt a merger agreement. Each of the board of directors of Cadence and the board of directors of Huntington, respectively, will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain from, in the case of Cadence, the shareholders of Cadence the requisite Cadence vote, and in the case of Huntington, the shareholders of Huntington the requisite Huntington vote, including (except in the case of a Cadence