Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001140361-25-024872
Chunk: 754

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: S-4
Chunk 754
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 a legal, valid and binding obligation of it, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general principles of equity.

(d) The execution and delivery by it of this Agreement and the performance by it of its obligations under this Agreement do not and will not, in any material respect, conflict with, result in a breach of or violate any provision of, or require the consent or approval of any person (except for any such consents or approvals which have been obtained) under applicable law, any trust instrument, Governing Document, or any contract or agreement to which it is a party.

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(e) There are no voting trusts, stockholder agreements, proxies or other agreements in effect pursuant to which it has a contractual obligation with respect to the voting or transfer of any Company Equity Interests or which are otherwise inconsistent with or conflict with any provision of this Agreement.

## ARTICLE III
<div align='center'>TRANSFER</div>

Sect ion 3.1 Transfers .

(a) No Rabobank Party shall transfer any Company Equity Interests (other than shares of Class A Common Stock) to any Rabobank Permitted Transferee unless such Rabobank Permitted Transferee executes and delivers a joinder to this Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A . No Ford Shareholder shall transfer any Company Equity Interests to any Affiliate, unless such Affiliate executes and delivers a joinder to this Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B .

(b) Any additional Company Equity Interests of which any Rabobank Parties or their Affiliates or the Ford Shareholders acquire beneficial ownership at any time on or after the date hereof (other than shares of Class A Common Stock acquired by any Rabobank Party), shall be subject to the provisions of this Agreement as fully as if such Company Equity Interests were beneficially owned by such persons as of the date hereof.

## ARTICLE IV
<div align='center'>REGISTRATION RIGHTS</div>

Section 4.1 Demand Registration Rights .

(a) Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 4.1(b) and Section 4.1(d), at any time after the expiration of 180 days after the Effective Date, if there is not currently an effective Shelf Registration on file with the SEC in respect of