Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 225

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 225
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 such related transaction, any consequences of the merger or any such related transaction to HomeStreet, its shareholders, creditors or otherwise, or any terms, aspects, merits or implications of any employment, consulting, voting, support, shareholder or other agreements, arrangements or understandings contemplated or entered into in connection with the merger or otherwise. KBW’s opinion was necessarily based upon conditions as they existed and could be evaluated on the date of such opinion and the information made available to KBW through such date. There is currently significant volatility in the stock and other financial markets arising from, as of the date of the opinion, global tensions and political unrest, economic uncertainty, inflation, prolonged higher interest rates, the COVID-19 pandemic and, in the case of the banking industry, recent actual or threatened regional bank failures, including the effect of evolving governmental interventions and non-interventions. Developments subsequent to the date of KBW’s opinion may have affected, and may affect, the conclusion reached in KBW’s opinion and KBW did not and does not have an obligation to update, revise or reaffirm its opinion. KBW’s opinion did not address, and KBW expressed no view or opinion with respect to:

| • | the underlying business decision of HomeStreet to engage in the merger or enter into the merger agreement; |

| • | the relative merits of the merger as compared to any strategic alternatives that are, have been or may be available to or contemplated by HomeStreet or the HomeStreet board; |

| • | the fairness of the amount or nature of any compensation to be received by any of HomeStreet’s officers, directors or employees, or any class of such persons, relative to any compensation to the holders of HomeStreet common stock; |

| • | the effect of the merger or any related transaction on, or the fairness of the consideration to be received by, holders of any class of securities of HomeStreet or holders of any class of securities of Mechanics or any other party to any transaction contemplated by the merger agreement; |

| • | the actual value of HomeStreet common stock to be issued in the merger; |

| • | the prices, trading range or volume at which HomeStreet common stock will trade following the public announcement of the merger or the price, trading range or volume at which HomeStreet common stock would trade following the consummation of the merger; |

| • | any advice or opinions provided by any other advisor to any of the parties to the merger or any other transaction contemplated by the merger agreement; or |

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