Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001140361-25-026051
Chunk: 739

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: 424B3
Chunk 739
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This REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT, dated as of March 28, 2025, is by and among HomeStreet, Inc., a Washington corporation (the “ Company ”), Mechanics Bank, a California banking corporation (the “ Bank ”), EB Acquisition Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, EB Acquisition Company II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Rabobank International Holding B.V., a Besloten Vennootschap Met Beperkte Aansprakelijkheid (“ Rabobank ”) and solely with respect to Section 7.4 through Section 7.14, Ford Financial Fund II, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, Ford Financial Fund III, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (Ford Financial Fund II, L.P. and Ford Financial Fund III, L.P., collectively, the “ Ford Funds ”), and each person who becomes a party to this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof by executing and delivering a joinder to this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof.

### RECITALS
WHEREAS, in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 15, 2019 (the “ Purchase Agreement ”), between Rabobank and the Bank, Rabobank, the Bank, the Ford Shareholders and the Ford Funds entered into the Shareholders Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2019 (the “ Shareholders Agreement ”);

WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, the Company, the Bank and HomeStreet Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, have entered into the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Merger Agreement ”), dated the date hereof, providing, among other things, for the merger of the Bank and HomeStreet Bank;

WHEREAS, in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Board of Directors of the Company has (i) approved the amendment of the Company’s articles of incorporation in the form attached as Exhibit B to the Merger Agreement and as Exhibit C to this Agreement (the “ Articles Amendment ”), which, among other things, authorizes the Company to issue Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, (ii) resolved to submit such amendment to the shareholders of the Company for approval and (iii) approved the issuance of shares of Common Stock as Merger Consideration (as defined in the Merger Agreement) on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement;