Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 578

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 578
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 Holder
” shall mean a Noticing Shareholder and, if the Noticing Shareholder holds for the benefit of another, the beneficial owner on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made.

v. “

#### Nominee Holder
” shall mean a person or entity that holds shares of the corporation in “street name” or through a nominee holder of record of such shares and can demonstrate to the corporation such indirect ownership of such shares and such nominee holder’s entitlement to vote such shares on such business.

vi. “

#### Noticing Shareholder
” shall mean a Nominee Holder and a Record Holder.

vii. “

#### Public announcement
” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by a national news service or in a document publicly filed by the corporation with the SEC (as defined below) pursuant to Section 13, 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

viii. “

#### Record Holder
” shall mean a shareholder that holds of record shares of the corporation entitled to vote at the meeting.

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ix. “

#### SEC
” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

x. “

#### Securities Act
” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

xi. “

#### Voting Commitment
” shall mean any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how a person, if elected as a director of the corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question.

(b) To be timely, a Noticing Shareholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation not earlier than 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the one-hundred-twentieth (120th) day and not later than 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided , however , that, in the event, the date of the annual meeting is more than thirty (30) days before or more than sixty (60) days after the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, then, to be timely, notice by the shareholder must be so delivered not earlier than 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the one-hundred-twentieth (120th) day prior to