Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 113

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
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 HomeStreet special meeting through the website at [ ] regardless of whether you are a registered shareholder or a beneficial shareholder. HomeStreet has been advised that Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers will give the best user experience for participation in the virtual meeting.

HomeStreet’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer is expected to lead the meeting, and members of the HomeStreet board of directors are expected to be present during the HomeStreet special meeting. During the HomeStreet special 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 meeting, including the list of shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting, and submit questions to be answered by HomeStreet’s Chairman of the Board. Questions pertinent to meeting matters will be answered during the meeting, subject to time constraints, and HomeStreet may choose to exclude questions deemed inappropriate or not relevant to the HomeStreet special meeting or the proposals being considered thereat.

The virtual HomeStreet special meeting has been designed to provide substantially the same rights to participate as you would have at an in-person meeting. Shareholders participating in the virtual 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 to submit questions before and during the meeting through the virtual meeting portal. To submit a question, log into the virtual meeting platform at [ ], 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, HomeStreet may respond to only up to two questions from a single shareholder and may not be able to respond to all questions.

The virtual HomeStreet special meeting website will be hosted by [ ]. In the event you have any technical difficulties logging into the meeting, support from [ ] will be available. For more information, please go to the virtual meeting website, where you will be able to find additional information on technical support matters. See the section entitled “ —Shares of HomeStreet Common Stock Held in Street Name ” below for further information.

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Proxies If you are a shareholder of record of HomeStreet as of [ ], 2025, the record date for the HomeStreet special meeting, you may