Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001518715-25-000085
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Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 425
Chunk 16
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 then also trying to bring in new business to the bank, working very closely with Tony and Shanna and our commercial bankers, with our branches to help drive that. So there's

always an organic focus. I think M&A wise, we've traditionally been very inquisitive and so we'll always stay opportunistic. Sometimes the next transaction can happen very quickly. It's taken five years since the Rabo deal for us to do a merger. So we're not just going to do a merger just for the sake of it. Frankly, I think we're very happy with what we've built. We think this is a great high performing, low risk franchise that's core funded, once we close. And, you know, I think we'll always be looking, we get a lot of inbound phone calls. There's situations out there that we're monitoring, but we're really focused right now on just making sure we get everything very carefully integrated with HomeStreet and so anything would be well down the road. But we'll certainly keep an open mind. Mark Mason It's a great question, thanks. Next. Hold on. The mic. Question from the audience I know a lot of people that I work with are concerned about remote work. Who don't have maybe a physical building in where they are. What’s the philosophy on that? C.J. Johnson In general, we prefer our folks to be in the office, but we're not a hundred percent ridgid around it. There's flexibility for hybrid work. There's some positions that are fully remote. I think there's a lot of benefit to being together. I personally, really enjoy talking to people because I think you can get a lot more done in person or you can learn things that maybe you don't get via Webex. At the same time, I think Webex can be a very effective tool or Teams or Zoom or whatever you're on. I think it can make things more efficient. We ask our team to make sure you're on screen and I think we'll keep an open mind. We understand there's different situations, there's different employees, there's different groups; A lot of it will say it's manager's discretion, but we definitely would prefer as much office presence as possible. We're going to keep space here in Seattle. I think we're going to keep space in the Federal Way office. We're going to take a hard look at it. We want to be efficient; we're always going to try to be a high